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"Those dreadful Savilles" had now, as ever, the power of enforcing obedience from their vassals. "But all the same," she repeated obstinately, "but all the same he would have liked you better if you had been a beetle!"
There is no older family in England, and they are called `Fighting Savilles, because they are always in the front of every battle, winning honours and distinctions. I expect they have been offered titles over and over again, but they would not have them. They refused them with scorn, and so would I if one were offered to me. Nothing would induce me to accept it!"
I don't want my Peggy altered out of recognition. There are thousands of staid, responsible housewives in existence, but Peggy Savilles are rare. I prefer her of the two." "And yet you want to be rid of her! Poor, dear, little thing! If you get your way, she won't be in existence much longer. How can you make up your mind to be so cruel?"
"There's not many of your sort on the Marsh." "How do you mean my sort?" "Gentlefolk." "Oh, we don't trouble to call ourselves gentlefolk. My father and I are just plain farmers now." "But you don't really belong to us you're the like of the Savilles at Dungemarsh Court, and the clergy families." "Is that where you put us? We'd find our lives jolly dull if we shut ourselves up in that set.
I should not call her exactly plain. She is a funny little thing, but there's something nice about her face." "Very nice!" "Last night in the pink dress she looked almost pretty." "Y-es!" "Quite pretty!" "Y-es! really quite pretty." "We shall think her lovely in another week," said Mellicent tragically. "Those awful Savilles! They are all alike there is something Indian about them.
As they neared the factory the figure of a tall woman, young by the straightness of the back, the gracious yet taut beauty of line and curve, came from behind the cabin of the Savilles, and on her shoulder was perched a three-year-old child which laughed and gurgled with delight, holding tight to her widespread hands.
This being the case, it was only natural that he should betake himself to the hotel where his friends the Savilles were located, and so make a convenient fourth in their excursions.
If you are not grand enough for her, then neither am I; but I have yet to learn that the Savilles are unworthy of any alliance which they may choose to make.
She would die before she would turn traitor and betray her flag and country. The Savilles were a fighting race, and would a thousand times rather face death than dishonour. One day, when she felt rather stronger than usual, she told him so to his face, and he laughed she was quite sure he laughed, the hard-hearted wretch!
The next day the Savilles lost no time in consulting the agent who had been commissioned to advertise for houses on their behalf, and he in his turn presented them with a list of a dozen places which were for sale, eight of which were obviously unsuitable, and none in the very least like Peggy's ideal abode.
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