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He had been very humble in speaking of his own hopes to the Earl, but surely there might be a chance. What if after all the little strain which he had had in his back was to be cured after such a fashion as this! When he got to his lodgings, he found a card from Lady Baldock, informing him that Lady Baldock would be at home on a certain night, and that there would be music.
She herself had received his offers without scorn, and had always treated him as though he were a favoured friend, though not favoured as a lover. And now even Lady Baldock was smiling upon him, and asking him to her house as though the red-faced porter in the hall in Berkeley Square had never been ordered to refuse him a moment's admission inside the doors.
Violet, that is my plea, and my only one. I love you so well that I do believe that if you took me I should return to the old ways, and become as other men are, and be in time as respectable, as stupid, and perhaps as ill-natured as old Lady Baldock herself." "My poor aunt!" "You know she says worse things of me than that. Now, dearest, you have heard all that I have to say to you."
"It has been poor Lord Chiltern with a vengeance!" said he. "But now that we have made it up, she will be horrified again at all your wickednesses. You have been a turtle dove lately; now you will be an ogre again. But, Oswald, you must not be an ogre to me." As soon as she could get quit of her lover, she did tell her tale to Lady Baldock.
Though she could talk about remaining unmarried, she knew that that was practically impossible. All those around her, those of the Baldock as well as those of the Brentford faction, would make such a life impossible to her. Besides, in such a case what could she do?
The fair valley of Tewin Water, the cutting into Hitchin where the train traverses the chalk, Baldock Church, Royston with its promise of downs, were nothing in themselves, but dear as stages in the pilgrimage towards the abode of peace. On the platform he met friends. They had all had pleasant vacations: it was a happy world. The atmosphere alters.
Her duty was imperative, and Lady Baldock was not the woman to neglect her duty; and yet she knew that the doing of her duty would all be in vain. Violet would marry a shoe-black out of the streets if she were so minded.
At that moment, luckily, Lady Baldock came into the room, and Phineas was saved from the necessity of making a declaration at a moment which would have been most inopportune. Lady Baldock was exceedingly gracious to him, bidding Violet use her influence to persuade him to come to the gathering. "Persuade him to desert his work to come and hear some fiddlers!" said Miss Effingham.
Then she cantered on, and he followed her till they reached the Earl and Lady Baldock and Miss Boreham. "I have done my devotions now," said Miss Effingham, "and am ready to return to ordinary life." Phineas could not find another moment in which to speak to her.
Now, the truth was, as Violet well knew, that "my uncle Baldock" had been dumb as a sheep before the shearers in the hands of his wife, and had never been known to do anything improper by those who had been most intimate with him even in his earlier days.
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