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But you are my only son, and I do love you, Henry, whatever may be your opinion on that point; and, because I love you, I would rather, far rather, be a lonely, childless woman in the world, I would far rather see you dead on this floor, than see you marry Winifred Wynne. 'Ah! mother, the cruelty of this family pride has always been the curse of the Aylwins.
'I belong to the proud Aylwins, I said. The twinkle in his eye made me adore him as he said 'The proud Aylwins. A man who, in a world like this, is proud and knows it, and is proud of confessing his pride, always interests me, but I will not ask you what makes the proud Aylwins proud, sir.
Listen, mother: Winifred Wynne shall be mine. Not all the Aylwins that have ever eaten of wheat and fattened the worms shall prevent that. She shall be mine. I say, she shall be mine! 'The daughter of the man who desecrated my husband's tomb! 'And my father's!
What thoughts and what sensations were mine as I sat there, pressing the sharp stones into my breast, thinking of her to whom the sacred symbol had come, not as a blessing, but as a curse what agonies were mine as I sat there sobbing the one word 'Winnie, could be understood by myself alone, the latest blossom of the passionate blood that for generations had brought bliss and bale to the Aylwins.
'Yes, mother, I said, 'it is my charge; and taking up the cross I wrapped it in my handkerchief. 'Take the amulet and guard it well, she said, as I placed it carefully in the breast pocket of my coat. 'And remember, said my aunt, breaking into the conversation, 'that the true curses of the Aylwins are and always have been superstition and love-madness.
'Stay, King Bamfylde, stay, said he; 'shall the beds of the mere ungenteel Aylwins, "the outside Aylwins," be made by the high Gypsy-gentility of Raxton? A light began to break in upon me. 'Surely, I said, 'surely you are not Cyril Aylwin, the ? 'Pray finish your sentence, sir, and say the low bohemian painter, the representative of the great ungenteel the successor to the Aylwin peerage.
'That is the very reason why you, who may some day be the heir of one of the first houses in England, must never marry Winifred Wynne. 'But I don't want to be heir of the Aylwins; I don't want my uncle's property, I retorted. 'Nor do I want the other bauble prizes of the Aylwins. 'Providence has taken Frank, and says you must stand where you stand, replied my mother solemnly.
Aylwin, I need not tell you, was the name of the greatest man of this age, and I am anxious to know what is exactly your connection with him. 'You surprise me, I said. 'Out of our own family, in its various branches, there is, I have been told, no very large number of Aylwins, and I had no idea that one of them had become famous. 'I did not say famous, sir, but great; two very different words.
My father, Philip Aylwin, belonged to a branch of an ancient family which had been satirically named by another branch of the same family 'The Proud Aylwins. It is a singular thing that it was the proud Aylwins who had a considerable strain of Gypsy blood in their veins.
As a result of this, some of the London papers reproduced the paragraphs, and built upon their gossip columns of a positively offensive nature. In a paper which I will for convenience call the London Satirist appeared a paragraph which some one cut out of the columns of the paper and posted to me. It is matter of common knowledge that some generations ago one of the Aylwins married a Gypsy.
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