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Updated: July 6, 2025
The sunset fronted Besworth Lawn; the last light of day was danced down to inspiriting music: and now Arabella sent word for Besworth hall-doors and windows to be opened; and on the company beginning to disperse, there beckoned promise of a brilliant supper-table.
You don't differ about Besworth: or, didn't. I never saw a woman so much in love with a place as she is." "A place?" emphasized Adela. "Don't be too arch. I comprehend. She won't take me minus Besworth, you may be sure." "Did you, Wilfrid! but you did not offer yourself as owner of Besworth?" Wilfrid kept his eyes slanting on the floor. "Now I see why you should still wish it," continued Adela.
She described to him gaily the struggle with their papa. "But, if you care for Besworth, you may calculate on it. Or is it only for our sakes, as I sometimes think? Besworth is won. Now, you know that rich men invariably make the question of the cost their first and loudest outcry. I know that to be the case. They call it their blood. Papa seems indifferent to this part of the affair.
Pole left them to make his way to Adela and Cornelia. "Now, mind, I expect you to keep to your agreement," he said. Gradually they were led on to perceive that this simple-minded man had understood their recent talk of Besworth to signify a consent to the stipulation he had previously mentioned to Adela.
"And what on earth can that be?" interposed Arabella. "You may well ask. Could a genie have guessed that Mrs. Chump was at the bottom of it all? The conclusion of the dreadful discussion is this, that papa offers to take the purchase of Besworth into his consideration, if we, as I said before, will receive Mrs. Chump as our honoured guest.
Lady Gosstre had once told her that the point of Sir Twickenham's private character was his susceptibility to ridicule. Her ladyship had at the same time complimented his discernment in conjunction with Cornelia. "Yes," Adela now thought; "but if my sister shows that she is not so wise as she looks!" Cornelia's figure disappeared under the foliage bordering Besworth Lawn.
There are three residences in England that might be preferred to it, and, of those, two are ducal." The letter was a piece of that easy diplomacy which comes from habit. The "of those, two are ducal," was masterly. It affected the imagination of Brookfield. "Which two?" And could Besworth be brought to rival them? Ultimately, it might be! The neighbourhood to London, too, gave it noble advantages.
Adela believed in her own judgement too completely not to be sure that her sisters were, perhaps unknowingly, disguising a slowness of perception they were ashamed of, by thus partially accusing her of giddiness. She bit her lip. "Very well; if you have no fears whatever, you need not abandon the idea of Besworth." "I abandon nothing," said Arabella.
"She has told him," continued Adela, "that no explanation, or whatever it may be, was received by her." "Certainly not, if it was not sent." "Papa," and Adela's voice trembled, "papa will not think of Besworth, not a word of it!-until until we consent to welcome that woman here as our guest." Cornelia was the first to break the silence that followed this astounding intelligence.
He flutters from flower to flower, but he has feeling Now comes the worst of all in one sense; that is, looking on it as people of the world; and being in the world, we must take a worldly view occasionally. Mr. Pole you remember how he behaved once at Besworth: or, no; you were not there, but he used your name. His mania was, as everybody could see, to marry his children grandly.
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