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"Not much chance on that, I'm afraid. Undue influence sounds best to me." After more discussion, so technical as to be largely unintelligible to Anthony, he retained Mr. Haight as counsel. The lawyer proposed an interview with Shuttleworth, who, jointly with Wilson, Hiemer and Hardy, was executor of the will. Anthony was to come back later in the week.
"Psha, Kate?" inquired the vicar mildly; and it is not always that the saintly produce a soothing effect on their wives. It really seemed as if the girl were to have her own way in Symford, unchecked even by Lady Shuttleworth, whose attitude was entirely incomprehensible.
My Broadwood was always considered a remarkably fine instrument. It was very proper of George Shuttleworth to say that he would be in the neighbourhood, and I daresay she is a very decent sort of woman." They had come to the motor by this time the rich, the noble motor, as Mr Pepys would have described it and there was poor Miss Lyall hung with parcels, and wearing a faint sycophantic smile.
To that which mattered in the man, the lingering faith yet struggling in the throes of dissolution, Shuttleworth had indeed given the coup de grâce. That he had joined the arch-enemy who in a short time would achieve his material destruction signified little. When something spiritual is being done to death, the body and mind are torpid.
The Shuttleworth horses had a busy time on the Friday, Saturday, and Monday, trotting up and down between Symford and Minehead; and the Shuttleworth servants and tenants, not being more blind than other people, saw very well that their Augustus had lost his heart to the lady from nowhere.
Vickerton every day and she was a woman who loved to talk; but those of the Shuttleworth servants who were often in Minehead on divers errands ratified and added to all he said, and embellished the tale besides with what was to them the most interesting part, the unmistakable signs their Augustus showed of intending to marry the young woman. This did not interest the murderer.
And although she never told any one of the conversation with the gentleman writing cheques, when Robin came home for Christmas and looked at her he knew at once what she knew. As for Lady Shuttleworth, she got a letter from Priscilla; quite a long one, enclosing a little one for Tussie to be given him if and when his mother thought expedient. Lady Shuttleworth was not surprised by what she read.
But she for her part should know at what moment to lay down her authority, and begin, with a fitting modesty, to follow him whom she has hitherto led." "Is that what your niece does?" asked Lady Shuttleworth quickly. "Madam?" "Is she following you into these cottages, or are you following her?" "You must pardon me, madam, if I decline to discuss my niece."
There was no mistaking the irony of that, and Georgie thought he would be ironical too. "I didn't know if you knew," he said. "I thought it might be Neapolitan dialect." "Pray, go on!" said Lucia, breathing through her nose. "And she said I was Georgie," said Georgie, "but that there was another Georgie not far off. That was odd, because Olga's house, with Mr Shuttleworth, were so close.
For of course Priscilla was the ultimate cause of these unusual tears, as Lady Shuttleworth very well knew.
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