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He would stay here at Little Langbourne. "Buddesby, sir?" said the waiter. "Yes, sir. Mister John Everard's place about a quarter of a mile beyond the village. Very interesting old 'ouse, sir, one of the best farms hereabouts. Mr. Everard's a well-to-do gentleman, sir, old family, not " "Oh, go away!" The waiter withdrew. "Anyhow," he thought, "he got it all right last night, and serve him right.
Philip Slotman sat in his office; he was slowly deciphering a letter, ill-written and badly spelled. "According to promise I am writing to you hopeing it finds you as it leaves me at present. Dear sir, having some news I am writing to tell you saime. Yesterday Mr. John Everard of Buddesby was here and him and Miss Jone was in the garden for a long time.
"There's not a soul in the world who wants her, poor little lass. Her father's been dead years; her mother died last week." He paused. "I knew them both." That was all the information he had ever given, so Ellice Brand had come to Buddesby, one more mouth to feed, one more pair of feet to find shoes for.
She wanted to go, had always meant to go, for Jessie's boys were very dear to her. Yet to leave Joan alone in this great house, so utterly alone! Last night Helen had driven over quietly to Buddesby, and she and Constance had had a long talk. "I can't leave Joan alone. I have written to Jessie, telling her that I shall start in three months.
She would think no more of this man, and remember no more of his speeches. She would wipe him out of her memory. Life for her would begin again here in Starden, and the past should hold nothing, nothing, nothing! Buddesby, in the Parish of Little Langbourne, was a small place compared with Starden Hall. Buddesby claimed to be nothing more than a farmhouse of a rather exalted type.
Slotman looked at the slow-coming figure and cursed under his breath. "When shall I hear?" "I shall think it over, decide how I shall act, whether I shall pay you this money or not," she said. "In a few days, this day week, not before." She turned away. "And and if I go to Buddesby and get talking?" "Then of course I pay you nothing!" she said calmly. That was true. Slotman gritted his teeth.
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