Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 19, 2025
No day went by without the young man making some more or less plausible excuse to call there once, twice, and sometimes thrice. It was noticed, too, by those interested in such matters and in Beechfield they were in the majority that Mr. Godfrey Radmore, whose return to Old Place had naturally caused a good deal of talk and speculation was also a frequent visitor at The Trellis House.
The above intimation, together with much detail concerning time, place, and performers, was printed on a very large gilt-edged card; and two such cards, enclosed in a thick square envelope, lay upon Hubert Lepel's breakfast-table some months after the New Year's holiday which he had spent at Beechfield Hall.
"One day he began to talk about himself, and he told me about Beechfield, what a beautiful village it was, how devoted he was to you all!" Janet Tosswill glanced at the clock. "It's already five minutes past eight!" she exclaimed. "I must go and hurry my young people their father likes them to be absolutely punctual. The gong will go in a minute."
The junior partner of the big firm of house-agents who had disposed of the lease of Fildy Fe Manor had helped her in every way possible, though he had been rather surprised and puzzled, considering that she knew no one there, at her determination to find a house in, or near, the village of Beechfield.
"Hubert Lepel! Not the man at Beechfield, the cousin of those Vanes?" He spoke in a whisper, with his eyes fixed on his daughter's face. Cynthia turned very pale. "I do not know. Oh, it can't be the same," she said. "It's not likely that there are two men of the same name.
I do not see gentlemen, when Madame is out, at this hour of the night. It is ten o'clock. Tell him to come to-morrow." "I did, miss. He said to-morrow wouldn't do. He asked me to mention 'Beechfield' to you, miss, and to say that he came from America." "Old or young, Mary?" The color was leaving Cynthia's face. "Old, miss.
Crofton leave Beechfield for ever " She stopped abruptly, for at that moment the staircase door to her right burst open, and Timmy stepped down into the scullery. Since she had had the horrid accident which had laid her up, Timmy had not gone to see his old Nanna nearly as often as he ought to have done.
At the time the agonising debate was going on at Beechfield, he had been in a fever hospital close on a month, and they were none of them to see him for three more weeks. It had been at once a pain and a relief that he should not be there yet what good could a boy of nineteen have done? As to what had happened to George afterwards, Radmore knew nothing.
O'Farrell had gone, Enid Crofton lay back and shut her eyes. Her nerves had by no means recovered from the horrible experience, and she felt a sort of utter distaste to Beechfield and to everybody there with the one exception of Godfrey Radmore.
They'll take anything in the world but money from those who " he hesitated, and then boldly brought out the word "love them." "And yet," said Betty quietly, "you yourself contemptuously rejected the money that father wanted to give you when he could well afford it the day you left Beechfield nine years ago."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking