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There was, however, but a limited supply of heads willing to be fingered, and Maurice returned to the most abiding of his tastes, and in an empty room at the Old Court laboured assiduously to find the secret of perpetual motion. A few days before Christmas Rachel Harvey again took leave of Beechcroft, with a promise that she would make them another visit when Eleanor came home.
There were plenty of ornamental cards from without to be admired: the Brighton and Beechcroft aunts; the Stokesley cousins, and whole multitudes of friends pouring them in as usual; so that the entire review seemed to occupy all those free moments of the Christmas Day, when the young folks were neither at church, nor at meals, nor singing carols themselves, nor hearing the choir sing in the hall, nor looking over photograph books and hearing old family stories.
"But, Mr. Brett, how can I possibly leave Beechcroft now?" "Did Mr. Capella consult you when he went to Naples? Are you not mistress here? Take my advice. Give the majority of your servants a holiday. Close your house, or, better still, have every room dismantled on the pretence of a thorough renovation. Leave it to paperhangers, plasterers, and caretakers.
He approached Brett and whispered: "A man who came here by the preceding train told me that you and some other gentlemen might possibly follow on. He intended to telegraph to you, but he asked me, in case you turned up, to tell you that the Japanese has gone on foot to Beechcroft, and that Mr. Capella has not arrived." "Not arrived!" cried Brett. He turned to Holden. "Can you have been mistaken?"
'Who is interrupting now? cried Gillian, 'but was she a lady? 'I never saw her, you know, said the mother; 'but from all I ever heard of her, I should think she was, and cleverer and more highly educated than any of us. 'Yes, said Hal, 'that was the kind of pretension that exasperated them all at Beechcroft, especially Uncle William. 'I wonder if Dolores will have it! said Gillian.
Eleanor's heart was open, she was full of enjoyment at meeting those she loved, and the two sisters sat long together in the twilight, talking over numerous subjects, all ending in Beechcroft or the baby. Yet when Lily awoke the next morning her awe of Eleanor began to return, and she felt like a child just returned to school.
"The drifting must cease," said Brett decisively. "Beechcroft Hall will probably provide scope for activity." They reached Stowmarket by a late train. Next morning they drove to Sleagill a pretty village, with a Norman church tower standing squarely in the midst of lofty trees, and white-washed cottages and red-tiled villa-residences nestling in gardens.
Lord Rotherwood came in, accounting for being late, as, in passing through a harvest field, he could not help attempting to reap. The Beechcroft farming operations had been his especial amusement from very early days, and his plans were numerous for farming on a grand scale as soon as he should be of age. His talk during dinner was of turnips and wheat, till at length Mr.
"Shall I ever forget it?" "Before Mr. David Hume-Fraser arrived at Beechcroft from London, had any other visitors seen Sir Alan?" This was a poser. No form of ambiguity known to Fergusson would serve to extricate him from a direct reply. "Ay, Mr. Brett," came his reply at last. "One I can swear to." "That was Mr.
But there are such things as hereditary qualities, and thus testimony to the existence of a distinguished forefather is worth having. 'Lily's dear old Sir Maurice de Mohun to wit, said Miss Adeline. 'You know she used to tease Florence by saying the Barons of Beechcroft had a better pedigree than the Devereuxes. 'I'd rather belong to the man who made himself, said Gillian. 'Well done, Gill!
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