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In this difficulty, the lady who held the post of her "companion" had ventured on a suggestion. Would Lady Berrick consent to make the Channel passage if her nephew came to Boulogne expressly to accompany her on the voyage? The reply had been so immediately favorable, that the doctor lost no time in communicating with Mr. Lewis Romayne. This was the substance of the letter.
"I hardly know as yet. We have no other plans at present." "You inherit the place, I think, from your late aunt, Lady Berrick?" "Yes." The tone of the reply was not encouraging; Romayne felt no interest in talking of Ten Acres Lodge. Father Benwell persisted. "I was told by Mrs. Eyrecourt," he went on "that Lady Berrick had some fine pictures. Are they still at the Lodge?" "Certainly.
Of the most modest pretensions, in regard to numbers and size, the pictures collected by the late Lady Berrick were masterly works of modern art. With few exceptions, they had been produced by the matchless English landscape painters of half a century since. There was no formal gallery here.
I refer to the clauses of the will which relate to the property you have inherited from the late Lady Berrick and I beg the persons present to bear in memory the few plain words that I have now spoken." He bowed with dignity and drew back. Even the lawyer was favorably impressed. The doctors looked at each other with silent approval.
I assured him that I should easily find ways and means of getting through the time. The next morning a message came from Lady Berrick, to say that she would see her nephew after breakfast. Left by myself, I walked toward the pier, and met with a man who asked me to hire his boat. He had lines and bait, at my service.
The end of it was that I accepted Romayne's invitation. SHORTLY after noon, on the next day, we were established at Boulogne near Lady Berrick, but not at her hotel. "If we live in the same house," Romayne reminded me, "we shall be bored by the companion and the doctor. Meetings on the stairs, you know, and exchanging bows and small talk."
He handed me a letter addressed to him by the traveling medical attendant of Lady Berrick. After resting in Paris, the patient had continued her homeward journey as far as Boulogne. In her suffering condition, she was liable to sudden fits of caprice. An insurmountable horror of the Channel passage had got possession of her; she positively refused to be taken on board the steamboat.
"The Vange property and the Berrick property were both absolutely at the disposal of Mr. Romayne," he said. "If he died without leaving a will, he knew enough of the law to foresee that houses, lands, and money would go to his 'nearest of kin. In plainer words, his widow and his son." When Penrose can travel, he accompanies me to Beaupark. Stella and her little son and Mrs.
THERE was no obstacle to the speedy departure of Romayne and his wife from Vange Abbey. The villa at Highgate called Ten Acres Lodge, in allusion to the measurement of the grounds surrounding the house had been kept in perfect order by the servants of the late Lady Berrick, now in the employment of her nephew. On the morning after their arrival at the villa, Stella sent a note to her mother.
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