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From her lady's answers, the waiting-maid ascertained that she had no idea of seeking any relaxation in change of scene, but purposed to reside at Raynham for at least one year. Jane Payland wondered at the decision of her mistress's manner. She had imagined that Lady Eversleigh would be eager to leave a place in which she found herself the object of disapprobation and contempt.
The heavy butler essayed to speak, but the tremendous blow and the baronet's gesture choked him. At the door he made another effort which shook the rolls of his loose skin pitiably. An impatient signal sent him out dumb, and Raynham was quit of the one believer in the Great Shaddock dogma. It was the month of July. The Solent ran up green waves before a full-blowing South-wester.
Lydia Graham came to Raynham Castle with poisonous feelings rankling in her heart, but she wore her brightest smiles as well as her most elegant dresses. She congratulated the baronet in honeyed words, and offered warmest friendship to the lovely mistress of the mansion.
You will give me two promissory notes; one for ten thousand, to fall due a year hence the other for the same sum, to fall due in two years." "But if I do not get the fortune and I am not likely to get it within that time; my uncle's life is a good one, and " "Never mind your uncle's life. I will give you an undertaking to cancel those notes of hand if you have not succeeded to the Raynham estates.
"She is very beautiful," he thought, "and she has made a good market out of her beauty; but it is only the beginning of the story yet the middle and the end have still to come." After this meeting on Thorpe Peak, the surgeon became a constant visitor at Raynham.
Matthew began to divide his custom between the rival taverns of Raynham, spending an evening occasionally at the "Cat and Fiddle," and appearing to enjoy himself very much at that Inferior hostelry. About a fortnight had elapsed after the comfortable supper-party at the castle, when Mr. Milsom took it into his head to make a formal return for the hospitalities he had received on that occasion.
Berry, as her recital declared, was no other than that identical woman who once in old days had dared to behold the baronet behind his mask, and had ever since lived in exile from the Raynham world on a little pension regularly paid to her as an indemnity. She was that woman, and the thought of it made her almost accuse Providence for the betraying excess of softness it had endowed her with.
He was disposed to try what effect a little travelling might have on him, and had himself once or twice hinted to Richard that it would be good for him to move about, the young man quietly replying that he did not wish to quit Raynham at all, which was too strict a fulfilment of his father's original views in educating him there entirely.
The far sight, the deep determination, the resolute perseverance of her sex, where a daughter is to be provided for and a man to be overthrown, instigated her to invite herself to Raynham, where, with that daughter, she fixed herself. The other two Feverel ladies were the wife of Colonel Wentworth and the widow of Mr.
Berry added, that she was not a "luggage-woman." "There used to be a train at seven o'clock," Austin remarked, consulting his watch. The two women were silent. "Could you get ready to come with me to Raynham in ten minutes?" Austin looked as if he had asked a commonplace question. Lucy's lips parted to speak. She could not answer. Loud rattled the teaboard to Mrs. Berry's dropping hands.
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