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How disgracefully he behaved about our marriage; for this same woman's sake, I have no doubt. You must remember that I disapproved of Harry from the very first. The idea of terminating a liaison of that kind with a marriage! Harry ought to be put out of decent society. You and I ought to be at Seat-Sandal now.
"Am I one of the family, or am I not?" Julius would ask Sophia on such occasions; and then the discussion of this question separated them from it, sometimes for hours at a time. Mrs. Sandal hardly perceived the growth of this domestic antagonism. When Harry was at Seat-Sandal, she lived and moved and had her being in Harry.
"I would come home, and get married, Harry. There will be room enough and welcome enough for your wife in Seat-Sandal, especially if she be Emily." "She will not be Emily; for I love some one else far away better, millions of times better than I love Emily." "I am so glad, Harry. Have you told father?" "Not yet. I do not think he will be glad, Charlotte." "But why?" "There are many reasons."
I will put ten thousand pounds at Bunder's in Threadneedle Street, London, for you. Draw it all if you find it just and necessary. The rental ought to determine the value. I want you to have Seat-Sandal, but I do not want you to steal it. However, my brother William may not die for many a year yet; those Dale squires are a century-living race."
All summer servants were going and coming at Seat-Sandal; the very foundations of its domestic life were broken up, and Charlotte's bright face had a constant wrinkle of worry and annoyance. Sophia was careful to point out the fact. "She has no housekeeping ability. Every thing is in a mess. If I only durst take hold of things. But Charlotte is such a spitfire, one does not like to offer help.
When you marry Charlotte Sandal, it must be by your own true name; and that is Stephen Sandal." "Stephen Sandal, mother?" "Yes. You are the son of Launcelot Sandal, the late squire's eldest brother." "Then, mother, then I am What am I, mother?" "You are squire of Sandal-Side and Torver. No living man but you has a right to the name, or the land, or to Seat-Sandal."
We shall not come back to Seat-Sandal again in this chapter of our eternity." And with a mocking laugh he turned away to make his own preparations. "But why go in the night, Julius? You said to-night at eleven o'clock. Why not wait until morning?" "Because, beloved, I owe a great deal of money in the neighborhood. Stephen can pay it for me. I have sent him word to do so.
As for myself, I felt as if Julius had been invited to Seat-Sandal that he might make his choice of us; and I took good care that he should understand from the first hour that I was not on his approbation. I resented the position on my own account, and I did not intend Stephen to feel that he was only getting a girl who had been appraised by Julius Sandal, and declined."
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