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Their suspense was yet prolonged for another ten minutes, and at the end of that time the servant came in and asked if Miss Amedroz would be good enough to go into the master's room. 'Mr Belton is there, Fanny? asked Mrs Askerton. The girl confessed that Mr Belton was there, and then Clara, without another word, got up and left the room.
With this lady in Perivale, which I maintain to be the dullest little town in England, Miss Amedroz was staying when the news reached her father, and when it was brought direct from London to herself. Instantly she had hurried home, taking the journey with all imaginable speed though her heart was all but broken within her bosom.
'I suppose she is all alone. 'He hasn't gone down, then? 'Who Captain Aylmer? No he hasn't gone down, certainly. He is in Yorkshire. 'I'm glad of that! 'He won't hurry himself. He never does, I fancy. I had a letter from him this morning about Miss Amedroz. 'And what did he say? 'He desired me to send her seventy-five pounds the interest of her aunt's money.
Mr Amedroz, with his daughter, had called upon them, and gradually there had grown up an intimacy between Clara and Mrs Askerton. There was an opening from the garden of Belton Cottage into the park, so that familiar intercourse was easy, and Mrs Askerton was a woman who knew well how to make herself pleasant to such another woman as Miss Amedroz.
'Really, Mr Belton, you have taken me so much by surprise that I do not feel myself competent to answer you at once. 'Shall we say in an hour's time, sir? An hour's time! Mr Amedroz, if he could have been left to his own guidance, would have thought a month very little for such a work. 'I suppose you would wish me to see Clara first, said Mr Amedroz. 'Oh dear, no.
We should probably do any little kindness for them, or expect the same from them; but there is nothing in common between us, and there is generally a mutual though unexpressed agreement that there shall be nothing in common. Miss Amedroz was intimately acquainted with Colonel Askerton after this fashion.
He had so softened the squire's tone of thought towards him, that the future stocking of the land was spoken of between them with something like energy on both sides; and Mr Amedroz had given his consent, without any difficulty, to the building of a shed for winter stall-feeding.
'If she becomes my wife, Mrs Winterfield will be quite at liberty to leave her money elsewhere. There were old causes of dislike between Mr Belton and Mrs Winterfield, and even now Mrs Winterfield was almost offended because Mr Belton was staying at Belton Castle. 'But all that is quite uncertain, continued Mr Amedroz. 'And I have your leave to speak to Clara myself?
When his aunt had told him to marry Clara Amedroz, he had been at once reconciled to the order by a feeling on his own part that the conquest of Clara would not be too facile. She was a woman of value, not to be snapped up easily or by any one. So he had thought then; but he began to fancy now that he had been wrong in that opinion.
And as the parish is large, stretching away to Exmoor on one side and almost to the sea on the other, containing the hamlet of Redicote, lying on the Taunton high road Redicote, where the post-office is placed, a town almost in itself, and one which is now much more prosperous than Belton as the property when it came to the first Amedroz had limits such as these, the family had been considerable in the county.
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