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What Biddulph Stafford's object was I don't know, but, being well informed of all that occurred, he persuaded Sir Mostyn to offer not only to restore to Mrs Stafford her income, but to increase it, provided she would consent not again to receive her daughter-in-law, and to bring up the child herself.
I mean that Dora has this fine clergyman, and Fred Mostyn, and her brother, and mother, and father all on her side; all of them sure that Dora can do no wrong, all of them sure that Ethel, poor girl, must be mistaken, or prudish, or jealous, or envious." "Oh, grandmother, you are too cruel." "Why didn't you have a few friends on your own side?" "Father and Ruth never liked Dora.
"I thought I recognized his voice," Saunders answered. "He has a way of talking quite loud of late." There was a pause, during which Mostyn continued to stare with fluttering lashes; then he said: "He is giving me a great deal of trouble, Saunders a great deal." "I see he is; in fact, all of us have noticed it." "It is getting more and more serious," Mostyn sighed, heavily.
Mrs Mostyn said, "That will do," rather coldly; and the young man went away crushed, feeling that she did not believe him, and that the morning's business had, in her disappointment, cast him down from his high position.
As far as Mostyn was concerned, this first malapropos meeting indicated the whole evening. His heart was beating quickly to some sense of defeat which he did not take the trouble to analyze. He only saw the man who had shattered his political hopes and wasted his money in possession also of what he thought he might rightly consider his place at Ethel's side.
You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope. The comparison is a mockery. Basil is the finest gentleman I ever saw. Socially, he is perfection, and " "He is only a clergyman." "Even as a clergyman he is of religiously royal descent.
Barnett went down the long green path till nearly at the end, when the dinner-bell began to ring, and just then he came upon the scythe lying where the man had thrown it in his pet. "Humph!" ejaculated Barnett. "Well, he won't have Mrs Mostyn to take his part. Pretty thing if I can't find fault with those under me."
AH! That is not a position I will ever take in any man's heart knowingly." "Of course, Fred Mostyn will have to marry." "Of course, he will make a duty of the event. The line of Mostyns must be continued.
He followed them into the house. The nurse at the foot of the stairs was beckoning them to hasten. Mostyn was again alone in the sitting-room. Presently the nurse came in, evidently looking for something. Mostyn caught her eye, and she gave him a hurried but sympathetic look. He decided that he would sound her. "Do you think an operation will be necessary?" he asked. Her glance fell.
As she was going up the steps she noticed a woman coming slowly down them. It was Dora Mostyn. They met with great enthusiasm on Dora's part, and she turned back and went with Ethel to her room. Ethel looked at her with astonishment. She was not like any Dora she had previously seen.
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