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She gained the one end she had schemed for throughout to get past the risks of the public marriage and back to her struggle in obscurity, unmolested, unpitied, unshamed. The Urquharts wrote, and Mr Thornycroft, when he sent his present; but she had "bluffed" them with her implied misrepresentations, and hurt their feelings by not wanting them at the wedding.
"Don't, please, Hilary," he added miserably. "Can't you see...." "See what? I see that; and I see these Urquharts, closely connected with our family, rolling in unearned riches, spending and squandering and wasting and never giving away. I see the Robinsons, our own relations, fattening on the money that ought to have come to us, and now and then throwing us a loan as you throw a dog a bone.
"Rather a flash lot, the Urquharts, aren't they?" he said; and Peter, who liked him, would have had to admit that the remark was perilously near to a bound. "Seem to have a sort of knack of dazzling people." "He's an attractive person, of course," Miss Hope replied; and she didn't say it distantly; she was so sorry for people who bounded, and so many of her friends did.
Peggy didn't want to say anything else depressing, so she didn't mention that Miss Matthews had that morning given notice of her departure. But in Peggy's own mind there was a growing realisation that something drastic must really be done soon. October went by. When Peter knew that the Urquharts had come back to London, he wondered why Lucy didn't come to see Thomas.
There were certain things Peter declined to do. He wouldn't borrow from the Urquharts; but he would sell his last treasured possession to soothe Hilary for a little while. The Berovieri goblet had been bought for a lot of money, and could at any moment be sold for a lot of money. The Berovieri goblet must go.
Rhoda said one evening to Peter, "You don't see anything of your friends the Urquharts now, do you?" "No," said Peter, who was stroking the kitten's fur the wrong way, to bring sparks out of it before the gas was lit. "They've been in the country all the winter." "Mr. Urquhart got elected a member, didn't he?" said Rhoda, without much interest. "Yes," said Peter.
Neither Peter nor Rhoda went to the Urquharts' house, which was a long way off. But Lucy came again, many times, to Greville Street, through that spring and summer, stroking the cat's fur backwards, laughing at Peter, shyly friendly to Rhoda. And then for a time her laughter was sad and her eyes wistful, because her father died.
Would you, if you could, be one of those who have their joy in life ready-made and put into their hands, instead of one of the poor craftsmen who have to make their own? What's the gaiety of the saints? Not the pleasant cheerfulness of the Denis Urquharts and their kind, who have things, but the gaiety, in the teeth of circumstances, of St.
So they stood for a type and a symbol and a sign that never, as long as the world endures, shall Margerisons get the better of Urquharts. They both looked at Peter, and Urquhart's brows rose a little, as if to say, "More Margerisons yet?" Hilary said, "What's the matter, Peter? Why have you come?" Peter said, rather faintly, "I meant to stop you before you saw Denis.
"Oh, meet," groaned Peggy, "that's not what there's any thought of their doing in these days, my dear. If one can bring them within a mile of one another, one's thankful for small mercies." Hilary rested his head on his hand and sighed. "Have you spoken to Peter yet about appealing to the Urquharts?" he asked. "Darling, I have not, and I'm not going to.
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