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"You mean about Lord Brotherton's marriage." "That among other things." "Of course they will talk about that. It is hardly to be considered private. And I don't know but what the more it is talked about the better for us. It is felt to be a public scandal, and that feeling may help us." "Oh, papa, I wish you wouldn't think that we wanted any help."
'I never undertook anything. How many guesses have you made as to the cause of your desertion to-day? 'Well, three or four. 'Have you made one as to the cause of Miss Brotherton's graciousness to you yesterday? 'At least I remarked the change. 'I will tell you. There was a short notice of some of your writings in a certain magazine which I contrived should fall in her way.
I don't think we ought to take any notice of Brotherton's letter to Mr. Price." It was thus decided between them that no further notice should be taken of the Marquis's letter to Mr. Price.
Near them stood a number of young girls clad in muslin petticoats, flowered with purple and scarlet. Bright satin shoes were on their feet, cotton rebosas covered their pretty, pert little heads. All were looking in one direction, whispering and crossing themselves. Doña Eustaquia glanced over her shoulder, then leaned heavily on Brotherton's arm. "It is Benicia," she said.
Though the son of the widow of a lunatic foreigner, still if the law says that he is Brotherton's heir, it is for us to render the difficulties in his way as light as possible. But that we may do so, we must know what he is. "Of course you find the Dean to be pushing and perhaps a little vulgar. No doubt with him the chief feeling is one of personal ambition.
But in his way he is wise, and I do not know that in this matter he has done anything which had better have been left undone. He believes that the child is not legitimate; and so in my heart do I. "You must remember that my dear mother is altogether on Brotherton's side.
'You are welcome to yours, and I will keep mine, she said. 'I only wanted to explain Miss Brotherton's condescension yesterday. 'I thought you were going to explain why you didn't come to-day. 'That is only a re-action. I have no doubt she thinks she went too far yesterday. 'That is absurd. She was civil; that was all.
The indignation of the others also visibly diminished: the Captain had been very kind the year before when gloom lay heavy on the town. "But," continued the autocrat, with an ominous pressing of her lips, "sure he must change three times a day. Is all that Captain Brotherton's?" "He wear many shirts," began Mariquita, when Faquita pounced upon the basket and shook its contents to the grass. "Aha!
Old Mr. Stokes, the family attorney, was the only lawyer they knew. But Mr. Stokes was Lord Brotherton's lawyer, and would hardly consent to be employed against his own client. Lady Sarah suggested that Mr. Stokes might be induced to explain to the Marquis that these enquiries should be made for his, the Marquis's, own benefit. But Lord George felt that this was impossible.
He will never live here all the year through." "He will be sick of it after a month. Will you read the letter to my mother?" "I will tell her, George. She had better not see the letter, unless she makes a point of it. I will read it again, and then do you keep it. You should tell Mary at once. It is natural that she should have built hopes on the improbability of Brotherton's marriage."
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