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"At all of it," Betty answered. "It is so wonderful." "She likes it," said Ughtred, and then rather slunk a step behind his mother, as if he were ashamed of himself. "The house is just beyond those trees," said Lady Anstruthers. They came in full view of it three minutes later. When she saw it, Betty uttered an exclamation and stopped again to enjoy effects.
But Sir Nigel Anstruthers cherished no sentiment for any other individual than himself, and he had no intention of explaining that his mere vanity had caused him to mislead her, that his rank and estate counted for nothing and that he was in fact a pauper loaded with dishonest debts. He wanted money, but he wanted it to be given to him as if he conferred a favour by receiving it.
The things bought were exquisite, but a little colourless woman could wear them all with advantage to her restrictions of type. As the brougham drove down Bond Street, Betty called Lady Anstruthers' attention to more than one passer-by. "Look, Rosy," she said. "There is Mrs. Treat Hilyar in the second carriage to the right. You remember Josie Treat Hilyar married Lord Varick's son."
When Lady Anstruthers and her sister returned from the cloak room, they found Sir Nigel standing near Mount Dunstan, who was going also, and talking to him in an amiably detached manner. Mount Dunstan, himself, did not look amiable, or seem to be saying much, but Sir Nigel showed no signs of being disturbed.
Perhaps it would be well for you to stay there to rest for an hour or so, and I will send a message to Lady Anstruthers." "I will go to the place, and eat and drink what you advise," she answered. "But I beg you to take me back to Rosalie without delay. I feel that I must see her." "I feel that I must see her, too," he said. "But for her God bless her!" he added, after his sudden pause.
"I don't remember any gardens in America," Lady Anstruthers owned reluctantly, "but everything seemed so cheerful and well cared for and and new. Don't laugh, Betty. I have begun to like new things. You would if you had watched old ones tumbling to pieces for twelve years." "They ought not to be allowed to tumble to pieces," said Betty. She added her next words with simple directness.
About the wife no one appeared to know anything, in fact. "She is rather a fool, I believe, and Sir Nigel Anstruthers is the kind of man a simpleton would be obliged to submit to," Bettina had heard the lady say. Her own reflections upon these comments had led her through various paths of thought.
It seems a little crude, but perhaps it means that we are an intensely literary and artistic people." She continued to find comparisons revealing to her their appositeness, until her journey had ended by the train's slackening speed and coming to a standstill before the rural-looking little station which had presented its quaint aspect to Lady Anstruthers on her home-coming of years before.
"Since, as you say, no structural changes are proposed, such as an owner might resent, and as Lady Anstruthers is the mother of the heir, and as Lady Anstruthers' father undertakes to defray all expenditure, no sane man could object to the restoration of the property. To do so would be to cause public opinion to express itself strongly against him.
I'll ask you to mark, however, that if you open your foul mouth to insinuate lies concerning either Lady Anstruthers or her sister I will do this thing again in public some day on the steps of your club and do it more thoroughly."
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