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One's friends need not always be the same as one's husband's, eh, Emma? You will be enchanted with our fair bride. We must both seize the first opportunity, and come as disguised princesses to visit Mrs. Halifax." "Again let me thank you, Lady Caroline. But " "No 'buts. I am resolved. Mr. Brithwood will never find it out. And if he does why, he may.
We entered, making little noise; but John's head was taller than most heads present; the sheriff saw him at once, and bowed courteously. So did young Mr. Herbert Oldtower, so did the Earl of Luxmore. Richard Brithwood alone took no notice, but turned his back and looked another way. It was now many years since I had seen the 'squire, Lady Caroline's husband.
He stood over the wretch the cowardly shrinking wretch he did not touch him, but he stood over him till, terrified out of his life, Richard Brithwood gasped out some apology. "Sit down pray sit down again. Let us proceed in our business." John Halifax sat down. "So my cousin is your wife, I think you were saying?" "She will be, some months hence.
Such a right had been so long unclaimed, that everybody had forgotten it was a right at all. Sir Ralph and his clerk laid their venerable heads together for some minutes, before they could come to any conclusion on the subject. At last the sheriff rose. "I am bound to say, that, though very uncommon, this proceeding is not illegal." "Not illegal?" almost screamed Richard Brithwood. "Not illegal.
She had dropped for ever out of her old life, as completely as a star out of the sky. Henceforth, for years and years, neither in our home, nor, I believe, in any other, was there the slightest mention made of Lady Caroline Brithwood. All the next day John was from home, settling the Kingswell affair. The ejected tenants our tenants now left us at last, giving a parting cheer for Mr.
"None, save that of an honest man, who sees a woman cruelly wronged, and desperate with her wrong; who would thankfully save her if he could." "Save me? From what or whom?" "From Mr. Gerard Vermilye, who is now waiting down the road, and whom, if Lady Caroline Brithwood once flies to, or even sees, at this crisis, she loses her place among honourable English matrons for ever."
Brithwood." "Oh Mr. Halifax. Good-morning." John returned the salutation, which was evidently meant to show that the giver bore no grudge; that, indeed, it was impossible so dignified a personage as Richard Brithwood, Esquire, in his public capacity, too, could bear a grudge against so inferior an individual as John Halifax. "I should be glad, sir, of a few minutes' speech with you."
Brithwood never spared language. "It's a cheat an infamous conspiracy! I will unseat him by my soul I will!" "You may find it difficult," said John Halifax, counting out the guineas deposited by Jacob Baines, and laying them in a heap before Mr. Brown, the steward. "Small as the number is, I believe any Committee of the House of Commons will decide that nine honester votes were never polled.
Certain, even when, as we sat at our dish of tea, there came in two little dainty notes the first invitations to worldly festivity that had ever tempted our Quaker household, and which Jael flung out of her fingers as if they had been coals from Gehenna. Jessop's, with Mr. and Lady Caroline Brithwood, of the Mythe House. "Give them to your father, Phineas."
Neither of us answered. Miss March looked surprised hurt nay, displeased; then her eye, resting on John, lost its haughtiness, and became humble and sweet. "Mr. Halifax, I know nothing of my cousin, and I do know you. Will you tell me candidly, as I know you will whether there is anything in Mr. Brithwood which you think unworthy of your acquaintance?"
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