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I confess that your interest in our family before you knew me lent a stability to my hopes that otherwise they would not have had. 'My interest in the De Stancys has not been a personal interest except in the case of your sister, she returned. 'It has been an historical interest only; and is not at all increased by your existence. 'And perhaps it is not diminished?
Before you knew anything of me, and while you thought you were the child of poverty on both sides, you were well enough; but ever since you thought you were more than that, you have led a life which is intolerable. What has become of your plan of alliance between the De Stancys and the Powers now? The man is gone upstairs who can overthrow it all.
I do not wish to indulge in rash surmises, but her oscillation from her family creed of Calvinistic truth towards the traditions of the De Stancys has been so decided, though so gradual, that well, I may be wrong. 'That what? said the young man sharply.
'In a foreign country it is different from home, said Paula in extenuation; 'and you of all men should not reproach me for tergiversation when it has been brought about by by my sympathies with 'With the troubles of the De Stancys.
It drew attention to the circumstance that the ancient and interesting castle of the De Stancys had unhappily passed into the hands of an iconoclast by blood, who, without respect for the tradition of the county, or any feeling whatever for history in stone, was about to demolish much, if not all, that was interesting in that ancient pile, and insert in its midst a monstrous travesty of some Greek temple.
'Well, why can't you have it done up, and sit here? he said warily. Paula shook her head. 'You are not at enmity with Anglicanism, I am sure? 'I want not to be. I want to be what 'What the De Stancys were, and are, he said insidiously; and her silenced bearing told him that he had hit the nail.
'The experience I have had with you is without parallel, Paula. It seems like a distracting dream. 'I won't be hurried by anybody! 'That may mean anything, he said, with a perplexed, passionate air. 'Well, mine is a fallen family, and we must abide caprices. Would to Heaven it were extinguished! 'What was extinguished? she murmured. 'The De Stancys.
A nameless dread comes over me when I think of it a fear that some uncanny influence of the dead De Stancys would drive me again from him. O, if it were to do that, she murmured, burying her face in her hands, 'I really think it would be more than I could bear! 'Very well, said Mrs. Goodman; 'we will see what can be done. I will write to Mr. Wardlaw.
Paternal affection, family pride, the noble instincts to reinstate yourself in the castle of your ancestors, all demand the step. And when you have seen the lady! She has the figure and motions of a sylph, the face of an angel, the eye of love itself. What a sight she is crossing the lawn on a sunny afternoon, or gliding airily along the corridors of the old place the De Stancys knew so well!
Faith, I don't zee much difference: be you one, or be you t'other, you've got to get your living. 'The De Stancys, of course, have not much influence here now, for that, or any other thing? 'O no, no; not any at all. They be very low upon ground, and always will be now, I suppose. It was thoughted worthy of being recorded in history you've read it, sir, no doubt? 'Not a word.
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