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I am a very insignificant person nothing but my father's daughter. Brian and I are only here on sufferance. 'Oh, that's nonsense, dear. I heard Sir Reginald tell my father that Wimperfield was to be your home and Brian's as long as ever you both like as long as your father lives, in fact. Brian can have his chambers in town, and work at his profession, but you are to live at Wimperfield.
"Just for a moment on the table. But surely my uncle would not " "One moment, please. Was anybody with your uncle at the time?" Ruth gave a sudden little cry. "How senseless of me to forget," she cried. "My uncle was down merely for the day, and, as he was very busy, he sent for Mr. Reginald Henson to help him. I did not imagine that Mr. Henson would know anything. But even now I cannot see what "
Such a man as Oswald Eversleigh is not easily moved to jealousy; but with such a man, one breath of suspicion, one word of slander, against the creature he loves, is horrible as the agony of death. Reginald Eversleigh had shared in all the pleasures and amusements of Sir Oswald and his wife.
Though Reginald, of necessity, assumed the character of a chief among the natives, he did duty with the English officers, visiting the outposts and sentries whenever his turn came. The strictest watch was kept, for their position was well known at Allahapoor, and it was more than probable that an expedition from that city would set out to attack them.
"She may perhaps encourage him," he said to himself, "especially now that his income is doubled. She might even accept him as a husband women are so mercenary. But her heart will never cease to be mine." Sir Reginald waited a week, a fortnight, but there came no letter from Paulina.
"The Countess," Passmore continued, "shortly afterwards visited these rooms. An hour after her departure Duson was dead. He died from drinking out of your liqueur glass, into which a few specks of that powder, invisible almost to the naked eye, had been dropped. At Dorset House Reginald Brott was waiting for her. He left shortly afterwards in a state of agitation." "And from these things," Mr.
Thereby was she at liberty to join in the local condemnation of Reginald Sawyer and his sermon. She did so with an assumption of elegant, if slightly hysterical, omniscience. This was not without its practical side. She regretted her inability to meet him at meals.
All this time, neither Trickett, or rather Charles Iffley, nor the fellow who called himself Reginald Berkeley, had appeared among us. They came at last, as if sauntering by, and joining in, asked the men what they were talking about. Several again went over the list of their grievances. "It's not to be borne!" cried Iffley.
"I may be of some use in watching the interests of my dear friend," he said to Reginald Eversleigh. "There is only one person who will feel your uncle's death more deeply than I shall, and that is poor old Copplestone. He is still in the castle, I suppose?" "Yes, he is confined to his rooms still by the gout." Reginald Eversleigh was by no means pleased by the general's decision.
The whole was doubtless once glorious with colour, traces of which still remain on the beautiful diaper work of the recess. The tomb of Stephen Alard is later, but similar though less rich. Stephen was Admiral of the Cinque Ports in the time of Edward II. Another of the family, Reginald, lies beneath the floor where of old a brass marked his tomb .
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