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"Much too late," replied Lady Susan promptly, though her eyes, too, were unwontedly soft. "Besides, I could never bear to be parted from the Tribes of Israel and you know you can't stand a dog about the house." "Drat the man!" she muttered crossly to herself, as the train bearing the Brabazons Londonwards steamed out of the station.
Of the general propriety of Lord George's conduct ever since his birth there had never been a doubt, and the Greens and Brabazons and Ansleys were gradually coming round to the opinion that he was right to make enquiries as to the little Popenjoy's antecedents.
After that, she felt she would not be afraid to meet him. He could work her no more harm then. So that it was with a light Heart that she finally started on her journey to London to stay with the Brabazons. Eliot saw her off at the station. "If you stop a day longer than a fortnight I shall come and fetch you back," he informed her despotically.
"June" with an effort to be equally firm. "If you say that again," he returned coolly, "I shall make it March. I'd ever so much rather, too," he wound up boyishly. "That would be quite impossible," replied Ann triumphantly. "I've promised to go and stay with the Brabazons in March." He took her by the shoulders and pulled her towards him.
Sometimes the Brabazons had visitors Lady Doreen, Neville and her mother, and on these occasions Eliot derived a certain misanthropic amusement out of watching the incipient love affair which was obviously budding between the two young people a development which, he could see, was clearly a source of satisfaction to at least one of their respective elderly relatives.
Legers, Lutrells, Plunketts, Dillons, Nugents, Prestons, Berminghams, Townleys, Aylmers, Flemings, Wyses, Eustaces, Brabazons, etc. Even Patrick Barnewall, who had resisted so strenuously the suppression of the monasteries in 1536, could not resist the temptation of sharing in the plunder. He secured for himself a large portion of the lands and advowsons of the Convent of Grace-Dieu.
When he resumed the normal usages of life once more and reappeared downstairs, he found that the Brabazons and Lady Doreen Neville and her mother had all gone their several ways. They were the only people with whom he had any acquaintance, and in an odd, indefinable way he missed their presence. He spent almost all his time at the Casino, working out and experimenting with different systems.
She recollected having met Lady Doreen on one occasion, about a year ago, when she herself had been paying a flying visit to the Brabazons at their house in Audley Square a frail slip of a girl with immense grey eyes and hair like an aureole of reddish gold.
Robin threw her a brief glance, then, drawing his whip lightly across the cob's glossy flanks, he asked casually: "And how did you leave the Brabazons?" "They're both looking very fit after three months in Switzerland, of course, but I think Tony found it a bit boring compared with Monte Carlo. They came straight on to Montricheux from Mentone, you know."
Some surnames, though they seem quite English now, show that the first member of the family to bear the name was looked upon as a foreigner. Sometimes the nationality to which the stranger belonged is shown by the name. The ancestors of the people called Fleming, for instance, must have come from Flanders, as so many did in the Middle Ages. The Brabazons must have come from Brabant.
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