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If Captain Aylmer had been the elder brother instead of the younger, and had all the Aylmer estates instead of the Perivale property, I know you would not accept him if you did not like him. 'I hope not. 'I am sure you would not.
I don't know how that might be. And Clara almost laughed as she felt the difficulties into which she was creeping. 'Dear Will. He is much better as a cousin than as a husband. 'I don't see that at all. Captain Aylmer will not have the Belton estate or Plaistow Hall. 'Surely he is well enough off to take care of a wife. He will have the whole of the Perivale estate, you know.
At last he said some word about the marriage and divorce court, condemning the iniquity of the present law, to which Perivale had opposed itself violently by petition and general meetings; and upon hearing this Mrs Winterfield had thumped with her umbrella, and faintly cheered him with her weak old voice.
Why are women so lovely? and why is it that the activity of man's mind is the only sure forerunner of man's progress? In listening thrice a day to outpourings from the clergyman at Perivale, there certainly was no activity of mind. Now, in these days, Mrs Winterfield was near to her reward. That she had ensured that I cannot doubt.
'It is impossible to help thinking of such things. 'I can assure you that I haven't thought about it; but I suppose I shall endeavour to to I don't know what I shall endeavour to do. 'Will you come and live at Perivale? 'Why here more than anywhere else? 'In this house I mean. 'That would suit me admirably would it not? I'm afraid Mr Possitt would not find me a good neighbour.
Then he got into the carriage, and was driven out of Belton, devoutly purposing that he never would return; and as he made his way back to Perivale he thought of a certain Lady Emily, who would, as he assured himself, have behaved much better than Clara Amedroz had done in any such scene as that which had just taken place.
'Of course, Frederic has got my sister's moiety of the Perivale property; about eight hundred a year, or something of that sort, when all deductions are made.
It had been settled for some time past that Miss Amedroz was to go to Perivale for a few days in November. Indeed it seemed to be a recognized fact in her life that she was to make the journey from Belton to Perivale and back very often, as there prevailed an idea that she owed a divided duty. This was in some degree hard upon her, as she had very little gratification in these visits to her aunt.
Folliott, who was cousin to everybody concerned, had come over from Taunton to see how things were going. She had always been at variance with Mrs Winterfield, being a woman who loved cards and supper parties, and who had throughout her life stabled her horses in stalls very different to those used by the lady of Perivale. Now this Mrs Folliott was the first to tell Clara of the will.
'Mr Possitt is a very good sort of man, said the captain, gravely for Captain Aylmer, in the carrying out of his principles, always spoke seriously of everything connected with the Church in Perivale. 'And quite worthy to be asked to dinner on Sundays, said Clara. 'But I did not give him any hope. How could I? Of course I knew that you would not live here, though I did not tell him so.
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