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"I wish old Lady Crewys had been as faithful," said Lady Mary, shrugging her shoulders. "Young people always like changes," said Lady Belstone, more leniently. "Young people!" said Lady Mary, with a rather pathetic smile. "John will think you are laughing at me. Am I to be young still at five-and-thirty?"
Invalided home. Sailing as soon as doctor allows." "I never complain, Canon Birch," said Lady Belstone, resignedly; "but it is a great relief, as I cannot deny, to open my mind to you, who know so well what this place used to be like in my dear brother's time."
As for Mary, you know her way of inviting people to lunch, and then going out for a walk, or up to her room, as likely as not. But I suppose she will be down directly, if you like to wait here," said Lady Belstone, who had plenty more to say. "I should be glad of a turn before luncheon," said the canon, who had no mind to hear it. "And there is an hour and a half yet. You lunch at two?
"It used not to be the fashion to encourage country doctors to be tame cats," said Lady Belstone, viciously; "but he pretends to like the innovations, and gets round young John; and inquires after Peter, and pleases Mary." "Ay, ay; it will be a great moment for her when the boy comes back. A great moment for you all," said the canon, absently.
"Our poor Mary has grown so dependent on John, however, that she will hear nothing against him. One has to mind one's p's and q's," said Lady Belstone. "He planned the alterations in this very hall," said Miss Crewys, "and the only excuse he offered, so far as I could understand, was that it would amuse poor Mary to carry them out."
"Does a widow wish to be amused?" said Lady Belstone, indignantly. "And was she amused, dear lady?" asked the canon, anxiously. "When she saw our horror and dismay she smiled." "Did you call that a smile, Georgina? I called it a laugh. It takes almost nothing to make her laugh nowadays." "You would not wish her to be too melancholy," said the canon, almost pleadingly; "one so so charming, so "
"No man on earth, lawyer or no lawyer," said Lady Belstone, emphatically, "will ever convince me that one can be better than well." "My sister alludes to the drains. It is a sore point, canon," said Miss Crewys. "In my opinion, it is all this modern drainage that sets up typhoid fever, and nothing else." "Bless me!" said the canon.
"For my part, I can sleep in one room as well as another, provided it be comfortable and appropriate," said Lady Belstone, with dignity. "There are very pleasant rooms in the Dower House, and our great-aunts managed to live there in comfort, and yet keep an eye on their nephew here, as I have always been told. I don't know why we should object to doing the same.
"None at all. You know he is not much of a correspondent, and his last letter said he would be back in a few days." "For my part," said Lady Belstone, "I think Peter will come home the day he attains his majority, and not a moment before." "He is hardly likely to stay in London through August and September," said Lady Mary, in rather displeased tones.
"But there is one breakfast-table, at least, in England, where divorce cases are not perused, and that is my brother Timothy's breakfast-table," said Lady Belstone, very distinctly. John hastened to fill up the awkward pause which ensued, by a reference to the beauty of the hall. "I'm afraid we don't live up to our beautiful old house," said Lady Mary, shaking her head.
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