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Mrs Askerton had succeeded in recovering the usual tone of her countenance, but now she was once more disturbed. 'I think I know the name, said she. 'I fancy that I have seen it in this house, said Clara. 'You may more likely have heard it, my dear.
'A Mr Berdmore! Clara as she repeated the name felt convinced that she had heard it before, and that she had heard it in connexion with Mrs Askerton. She certainly had heard the name of Berdmore pronounced, or had seen it written, or had in some shape come across the name in Mrs Askerton's presence; or at any rate somewhere on the premises occupied by that lady.
You believe in him I don't. You think him to be a fine fellow and a gentleman, whereas I don't think him to be either. 'Mrs Askerton! 'This is strong language, I know. 'Very strong language.
That had been said early in the morning, when they first knew that he had arrived; but they had been talking about him ever since talking about him under pressure from Mrs Askerton, till Clara had been driven to long that she might be spared. 'If he chooses to come, he will come, she said. 'Of course he will come, Mrs Askerton had answered, and then they heard the ring of the hell. 'There he is.
He was, no doubt, prepared to be morally indignant, morally very indignant, at the Askerton iniquity; but he did not like the word contamination as applied to his future wife. 'Frederic, said his mother, later on the same day when the hardly-used groom had returned from his futile afternoon's inquiry at the neighbouring post town, 'I think you should do something in this affair.
He said nothing more to Clara about her friends, but he thought of the matter more than once, as he was going about the place, and became aware that he would like to ascertain whether there was a mystery, and if so, what was its nature. He knew that he did not like Mrs Askerton, and he felt also that Mrs Askerton did not like him.
Then everything had been told between them, so that there was no longer any mystery either on the one side or on the other. Then Clara had assured her friend of her loving friendship in spite of any edicts to the contrary which might come from Aylmer Park; and after that what could be more natural than that Mrs Askerton should come to her in her sorrow?
You were resolved just now that it would be the most unbecoming thing in the world if he spoke a word more about his love for the next twelve months 'Mrs Askerton, I said nothing about twelve months.
These two days had been very desolate with her, and she had begun to look forward to Mrs Askerton's coming when instead of that there came a messenger with a letter from the cottage. 'You can do as you like, my dear, Colonel Askerton had said on the previous evening to his wife.
'Clara tells me that I am exactly like some old friend of yours, Mr Belton. Then he looked at her closely as he answered her. 'I have no right to say that she was my friend, Mrs Askerton, he said; 'indeed there was hardly what might be called an acquaintance between us; but you certainly are extremely like a certain Miss Vigo that I remember.
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