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I was simply ashamed to own such a cadaverous-looking wretch as you were when you came here last, and if you take my advice you'll stay at Trouville with Lord Ancoats and amuse yourself. As to that young man, of course it's no good, and his mother's a great fool to suppose that you or anybody else can prevent his enjoying himself. But these High Church women are so extraordinary."
Then, suddenly it was noticed that he had somehow slipped away, and that Madeleine Penley, too, was missing. The party straggled back to the drawing-room without their host. Ancoats, however, reappeared alone in about half an hour.
And Letty, looking across the broad green lawn, saw the flash of a brimming river and a cluster of white swans, beside which stood her husband and a young man in a serge suit, who was feeding the swans with bread Lord Ancoats, no doubt, the happy owner of all this splendour.
'How father would have liked all this crowd! she said once to David as they passed into Market Street. David assented with instant sympathy, and they talked a little of the vanished wanderer as they walked along, she with a yearning passion which touched him profoundly. He and Sandy escorted her up the Ancoats High Street, and at last they turned into her own road.
They were the small people of the small theatres; and Ancoats was a Triton among them, not at all, so he carefully informed his kindred, because of his wealth and title, but because he too was an artist, and could sing, revel, write, and dance with the best of them. For some time Maxwell was able to console Mrs.
"I wish you'd tell me." Letty raised her eyebrows with a little cry of protest. "Oh! but it makes the whole place so magnificent, so complete." "What is there magnificent in having too much?" said Ancoats, shortly. "I believe the day of these huge country places, with all their dull greenhouses and things, is done." Much he cared, indeed, about his gardeners and his grapes!
I ask with trembling, for there is no more magnificent member of creation. But if I could get at him, to ask him about an orchid I saw in one of your houses yesterday, I should be grateful." "Come into the next garden, then," said Ancoats, "where the orchid-houses are. If he isn't there, we'll send for him." "Then, Lady Tressady, you must come and see me through," said Sir Philip, gallantly.
"Do put that photograph down, George! you do fidget so! Haven't you got any news for me anything to amuse me? Oh! those horrid papers! I see. Well! they'll wait a little. By the way, the 'Morning Post' says that young scamp, Lord Ancoats, has gone abroad. I suppose that girl was bought off." She sat down again in a shady corner, fanning herself vigorously.
It was like the great lady all over to slight the wife and annex the husband. George certainly might have taken the trouble to come and look for her on their return from church! So, while Ancoats talked stiffly with Marcella, the bride, a few paces off, let George understand through her bantering manner that she was out of humour.
There are also several other institutions of the same class, amongst others Salford, Ancoats, and Miles Platting Auxiliary Mechanics' Institutes. The Athenaeum constitutes a kind of literary club for the middle classes, who are provided with a good library and reading-room in a very handsome building.
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