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"She loved him" he being a smart young fellow, who, with excellent recommendations from Chifney, had left the Brockhurst stables some two years before, to take service in Westchurch. "And he always spoke her fair. Had told her he'd marry her right enough, after a bit before God he would. But it would ruin his chance of first-class places if he married yet.
But his outlook was circumscribed, his desire to please abnormally large, and his sense of relative values slight. While that Lady Calmady should give birth to a son and heir was, after all, a matter of no small moment locally considered at all events. Brockhurst House rejoiced also, yet it did so not without a measure of trembling.
I don't say we love him very much, but that is beside the mark. We owe him a certain duty I, because I am living in his house, the others because they are his friends. When he comes home as come he surely will they all say that, even while they blame him would it not be an almost too cruel punishment if he found Brockhurst empty of your presence? You would not wish that.
Upon the right, some quarter of a mile away, blocking the end of an avenue of ancient Scotch firs, the eastern façade of Brockhurst House shows planted proudly upon the long gray and red lines of the terrace. Richard checked his horse, pausing to look for a moment at that well-beloved home. Then musing, he let his horse go forward along the level turf-ride.
Honoria she remembered as a singularly graceful, high-bred, little maiden, fleet of foot as a hind too fleet of foot indeed for little Dickie's comfort of mind, and therefore banished from the Brockhurst nursery.
Sir Charles Sedley and Lord Brockhurst were also notable as having been engaged in another piece of what has been called "frolick and debauchery," when "they ran up and down all night almost naked through the streets, at last fighting and being beaten by the watch, and clapped up all night."
That accomplished, young gentleman happened, as she was aware, to be staying at Brockhurst. She asked his opinion in confidence on the present very uncomfortable condition of the family fortunes, declaring how implicitly she trusted his good sense and respected his judgment. Then, passing adroitly to less burning questions, she ended thus
But at Brockhurst this whole chapter of accidents was barred, and received rules of strategy almost annihilated, by the fact of Richard Calmady's infirmity and the hard-and-fast order of domestic procedure, the elaborate system of etiquette, which that infirmity had gradually produced. At Brockhurst there were no haphazard exits and entrances.
Knott, she has asked me to go on to Brockhurst from here. It seems that though Richard refuses to see any one, except you of course, and Julius March, he fusses at his mother being so much alone. What ought I to do? I feel rather uncertain. I have fought him, I own I have. We have never been friends, he and I. He doesn't like me. He's no reason to like me anything but! What do you say?
"When I first came to Brockhurst, that picture used to hang in the study," he continued, by way of explanation. "Ah! I see, and you turned it out!" Richard observed, not without an inflection of irony. "Yes. In those days I am afraid I did not discriminate very justly between refinement of taste and self-indulgent fastidiousness.
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