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Updated: September 21, 2025
If they could have seen the weight of apprehension which then sank like a stone on these long-tried hearts, never to be afterward removed: lightened sometimes, but always however Ascott might promise and amend always there!
Still, if Ascott does work his way into a good position and he'll be the first of his family that ever did, I reckon but I beg your pardon, Miss Leaf. Ladies, I'll bid you good day. Will your servant call my carriage?" The instant he was gone Hilary burst forth
What on earth do you mean by this? "Miss Palliser, Mrs. Ascott, Miss Cardross are here, also Wayward, and Gray Cardross which with you and Mrs. Malcourt and myself solves the Bridge proposition or would have solved it. But without warning, yesterday, your sister and brother-in-law arrived, bag and baggage, and Mrs. Malcourt has given them the west wing of your house.
Yet he was ostensibly the head, hope, and stay of the family. Alas! many a family has to submit to, and smile under an equally melancholy and fatal sham. Mr. Ascott was sitting half asleep in his solitary dining room, his face rosy with wine, his heart warmed also, probably from the same cause.
She owned that Peter Ascott had a right to look both contemptuously and displeased. "A very pretty story, but I almost expected it," said he. And there he stopped. In his business capacity he was too acute a man to be a man of many words, and his feelings, if they existed, were kept to himself.
Altogether he was a decided hero in the place, and though people really knew very little about him, the less they knew the more they gossiped, holding him up to the rising generation as a modern Dick Whittington, and reverencing him extremely as one who had shed glory on his native town. Even Elizabeth had conceived a great idea of Mr. Ascott.
Aunt Hilary stood quite confounded, and with one of those strange sinkings of the heart which had come over her several times this day. It was not that Ascott showed any unkindness that there was any actual badness in his bright and handsome young face.
But that seemed impossible, until, turning over scheme after scheme, she suddenly thought of the one which so many people had tried in similar circumstances, and which she remembered they had talked over and laughed over, they and Ascott, one Sunday evening not so very long ago. This was a Times advertisement.
Ma'am, excuse me, but five thousand pounds depends on my getting these letters written and sent off within a quarter of an hour." Hilary bent her head, and sat watching the pen scratch, and the clock tick on the mantle-piece; thinking if this really was to be the last of his godfather's allowance, what on earth would become of Ascott? For Ascott himself, he said not a word.
Her eyes glittered her small, red lips were set tightly together. "If it is not done, sisters if his public disgrace is not prevented, don't you see the result? Not as regards your marriage, Selina the man must be a coward who would refuse to marry a woman he cared for, even though her nearest kinsman had been hanged at the Old Bailey but Ascott himself.
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