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She offered no remark to the servants, and they offered none to her, but from casual observations she gathered that her daughter had never been to Beechgrove, but had lived at Winiston all her married life, and that Lord Arleigh had never been to visit her. How was this? What did the terrible pain in her daughter's face mean? Why was her bright young life so slowly but surely fading away?
Some of the most notable have been Baillie Friar, Beechgrove Donally, Goring of Auchentorlie, Hempstead Toby, and Preston Shot, who all earned the coveted title of Champion. The Field Trials have, no doubt, had a great deal to do with the largely augmented popularity of the breed and the great increase in the number of those who own Clumbers.
He is a man of honor. He would not make love to her without intending to marry her." "But there is not a better family in England than the Arleighs of Beechgrove, Philippa. It would be terrible for him such a mésalliance; surely he will never dream of it." "She is beautiful, graceful, gifted, and good," was the rejoinder. "But it is useless for us to argue about the matter.
It was strange how completely a vail of silence and mystery had fallen over her. When he had been some time at Beechgrove he received one morning a letter from the Earl of Mountdean, saying that he was in the neighborhood, and would like to call. Lord Arleigh was pleased at the prospect.
He himself had retired from public life; the great hopes formed of him were all dying away. Men spoke of him with mystery, women with sad, gentle interest; those who had known him knew him no more. He did not return to Beechgrove: it seemed to him that he could never again endure the sight of the place where he had separated from his wife that his ancient home had been in some manner desecrated.
What a noble girl she was, bearing her troubles so patiently, and confiding them to no human soul! Then he was compelled to go to Beechgrove it was long since he had been there, and so much required attention, he was obliged to go, sorely against his will, for he dreaded the sight of the place, haunted as it was by the remembrance of the love and sorrow of his young wife.
"Do not speak to me," she said, "lest I should lose the echo of his voice;" and Lady Peters watched her anxiously, as she stood with a rapt smile on her face, as of one who has heard celestial music in a dream. The Arleighs of Beechgrove had for many generations been one of the wealthiest as well as one of the noblest families in England.
As he looked at her the thought came to him that, if his housekeeper had told him that she had inadvertently placed such a person the daughter of a felon in his kitchen, he would never have rested until she had been sent away. He must part from her this lovely girl-wife whom he loved with such passionate love. The daughter of a criminal could not reign at Beechgrove.
He frequently rode over to Beechgrove, and towards the end of the afternoon it became easy to persuade him to stay to dinner. And, as the night darkened and the rain began to fall, the inhospitality of turning him out was insisted on by May, and Mrs. Gould sent up word that a room was to be prepared for him.
If the duke was busy or engaged when his wife wanted to ride or drive, he asked her cousin Lord Arleigh to take his place, as he would have asked his own brother. If the duke could not attend opera or ball, Lord Arleigh was at hand. He often said it was a matter of perplexity to him which was his own home whether he liked Beechgrove, Verdun Royal or Vere Court best.
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