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The De Willoughbys have been gentlemen, sir, distinguished at the bar, in politics, and in the highest social circles of the South; and here we have a De Willoughby whose tastes would be no credit to to his overseer, a De Willoughby who has apparently neither the ambition nor the qualification to shine in the sphere in which he was born!
"Of course, at the Willoughbys', for instance, if anyone did mention his name they might, quite well, for I should think they were in much the same set there would be no harm in saying that you'd heard of him. I should rather like to hear what they said."
The Willoughbys, of course, were among the most prominent people in the town. William Willoughby was head of the firm of Willoughby & Walton, and it was the general opinion that Mrs. Willoughby was the head of the firm of Ella & William Willoughby.
The Willoughbys left town as soon as they were married; and Elinor now hoped, as there could be no danger of her seeing either of them, to prevail on her sister, who had never yet left the house since the blow first fell, to go out again by degrees as she had done before.
I shall dress as if I was going, but at the last moment I shall plead a headache and stay behind." "Very well, madam," said Jenny. But it seemed to her that Stella was throwing down her arms. Stella, however, had understood, upon hearing of the invitation for Lady Splay's party, that she could do nothing else. The Willoughbys were strict folk. Mrs.
Ef the De Willoughbys was what they'd usedter be he'd be the very feller as 'ud pay for things to be kept quiet. The De Willoughbys was allers proud an' 'ristycratic, an' mighty high-falutin' 'bout their women folk." When the subject of the De Willoughby claim was broached he fell into feverish excitement. The De Willoughbys had a chance in a hundred of becoming richer than they had ever been.
Nobody has laboured with any desire for return. Nobody has bargained for anything. Nobody would accept anything if it was offered to them. The whole affair has been Arcadian." "Will it be decided for the De Willoughbys will it?" said Mrs. Meredith. "Yes," answered the Senator; "I think it will. And I confess I shall not advance any objections."
When he spoke to the devotee, little Asian made sundry belligerent demonstrations; but he confronted her with the two words she had learned here, Willoughby and the town's name. The dwarf became livid, seemed always after haunted by a dreadful fear of him, pursued him with a rancorous hate, but could not hinder his marriage. The Willoughbys are a cruel race.
Yet there was nothing in the last likely to awaken unpleasant reflections, apart from the circumstance that she was not truly a child of the family into which she had been transplanted. The Merediths were, at least, as nonourable a family as the Willoughbys, in the ordinary worldly view of the matter; nor was Maud, by any means, a dependant, in the way of money.
He began to divine the true cause of this swift upheaval and revolution in her. "You could have sent me a card for the Willoughbys' dance. It would have been easy enough for us to meet there." Again she replied, "No!" A note of obstinacy was audible. "Why?" Joan did not answer at all. "I'll tell you," Escobar flashed out at her angrily. "You wouldn't be seen with me any more!
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