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Distant as the man was, Captain Leicester had no difficulty in recognising in him his dreaded rival, Lieutenant Walford. He guessed at once that the lieutenant had been visiting at "Sea View;" but what struck him as strange was that Walford's appearance and bearing was that of a man in a towering passion.
I was to come to you here, Miss Dunbar, to tell you not to expect your papa for some few days; and then I am to go on to Winchester, taking a lawyer with me." "A lawyer!" exclaimed Laura. "Yes, I am going to Lincoln's Inn immediately to Messrs. Walford and Walford, our own solicitors." "Let Mr. Lovell go with you," cried Miss Dunbar; "he always acted as poor grandpapa's solicitor.
Good God, how old I am getting! yes, you had better bring her to Wimperfield next week, and then we can get better acquainted with you, and I shall see what I can do for you both. This no doubt meant a handsome allowance. Brian Walford felt, for the first time in his life, that he had fallen on his feet.
This melancholy event occurred four years before the date at which this history opens; Lucy Walford was therefore about eighteen years old when the first of that train of events happened which it is herein proposed to record. Mrs Walford was wont to assert, just about this time, that Lucy was the very living picture of what she herself used to be when a girl.
One April morning Old Buff hungrily followed little Hannah to the landing, where she went with her mother to secure a fresh supply of fish to salt and dry, as well as some to cook at once. As they returned, Goodman Trimmings stopped them to tell of the sad condition of his wife. "She has surely been bewitched by Goody Walford, whom she met in the woods.
I'm afraid his good qualities will be his ruin. And thus, promising good things, yet prophesying evil, Miss Wendover left Wimperfield. Ida was to go and stay with her later on at the Homestead, when Brian Walford should be reading law in those new Chambers which he often talked about.
Not because of his wealth, darling don't suppose that we supposed that but on account of that dear old Abbey and its romantic associations, which gave a charm to the owner. And so she said what fun it would be to pass off Brian Walford as his cousin, and see if you fell in love with him.
There is a frank, pleasant look in the keen dark eyes, and an expression of firmness about the closed lips which makes most people feel, when they look at him, that they would much rather have him for a friend than for an enemy. Altogether, as far as physique is concerned, he certainly has the advantage of Lieutenant Walford.
Old Naylor did not see how it was to be done, or even hoped for; but the right kind of wife was unquestionably the best chance. He had cast a speculative eye on Cynthia Walford, Irechester had caught him at it, but, as he observed her more, she did not altogether satisfy him.
The sick man heard this remark, so did the man at the wheel, and from that moment Walford was a marked man. The captain turned round sharply. "Do you?" said he. "Then by Jove I'll see if it will prove equally efficacious here.
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