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"She expects us all to have velvet frocks and gold-fringed sashes, and Jessie's first thought was 'Now, Janet, you'll have a ladies' maid." "No wonder she rejoiced to be relieved of trying to make you presentable," said Bobus. "Shall we live at Belforest?" asked Armine.
Jock applied himself to extracting a horsehair from the stuffing of the elbow of his chair; and there was a look over his face as near sullenness as ever came to his gay, careless nature. Would he attend? or even could he? When his bills came in Caroline feared, as before, that he was the one of all her children whom Belforest was most damaging.
Brownlow deemed it the true outcome of the admixture of Friar and Brownlow, Jessie gave more credit to Eton and Belforest, for Jessie was really fond of her aunt, to whom she had owed most of her extra gaieties. Moreover, Mrs. Brownlow, though often chafing secretly, had the power of reticence, and would not set the minds of her children against one who was always doing them kindnesses.
The tete-a-tete drive was an approach to the serious business of life, since it was evidently designed to give opportunity for answering a letter which he had thought out and written while laid up at Leukerbad by a bad cold and the reaction from his exertions at Schwarenbach. Still his father did not speak till they had driven up the hill, and were near the gates of Belforest. Then he said
It has got abroad that she may turn out heiress to the old man at Belforest." "In such a hopeless case, would it not be wiser to leave this place altogether?" "I cannot," he exclaimed; then remembering that vehemence told against him, he added, "Don't be uneasy; I am a reasonable man, and she is a woman to keep one so; but I think I am useful to her, and I am sure she is useful to me."
"Yes; of course that must be in his mother's mind, though I don't suppose she expresses it even to herself. Miss Evelyn is coming out too, and is to be presented, which reconciles the younger ones to putting off all their schemes for working at Belforest, after the true Fordham and story-book fashion. Besides, Mrs. Brownlow always feels that she has a duty towards Elvira, even apart from Allen."
"And she has no fine instinct for a gentleman," added Bobus. "It is who will spread the butter thickest!" "A bad look out for Belforest," said Jock. "It can't be much worse than it has been with me," said his mother.
"Yet if you took away our faith, what would there be to hinder us from being like my poor Janet?" "Heaven forbid that I should take away any one's honest faith; above all, yours or Essie's." "Except by showing that you think it just good enough for us." "How can I help it, any more than I can help that Belforest was left to Elvira? Wishes and belief are two different things."
I wanted to look at the rest, but Miss James said they were horrid heathen gods, not fit for little girls to look at; and, mother, Ellie is so silly, she thought the people at Belforest worshipped them. Do come and see them, mother. It is like the Crystal Palace out-of-doors."
His younger sister had been the favourite; he had taken her back with him to America, and, married her to a man of Spanish blood, connected with him in business. The only one of her children who survived childhood was educated in England, treated as his uncle's heir, and came to Belforest for shooting.
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