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And it seemed to Mrs. de Tracy a crowning coincidence, a fitting kind of poetical justice, that Carnaby's action should actually have prevented the sale of the land; that dreaded, detestable sale of the first land that the de Tracys had held upon the banks of the river.
Carnaby's the most wonderful fellow in the world!" "Though a very indifferent boxer!" added Barnabas. "Indiff !" His Lordship let fall the last fragments of his bread and meat, and stared at Barnabas in wide-eyed amazement. "Did you say indifferent?" "I did," nodded Barnabas, "he is much too passionate ever to make a good boxer." "Why, deuce take me!
She came and went, moving in an orbit for which I had no data, going to London and Paris, into Wales and Northampton, while her stepmother, on some independent system of her own, also vanished and recurred intermittently. At home they obeyed the rule of an inflexible old maid, Charlotte, and Beatrice exercised all the rights of proprietorship in Carnaby's extensive stables.
He rose in the morning with less anxiety about the day: and when playing, could forget school. There was no usher yet in Mr Carnaby's place; and all the boys said their lessons to Mr Tooke himself: which Hugh liked very much, when he had got over the first fear.
She left the room as she had come, the candle casting exaggerated shadows of herself upon the walls where Carnaby's bats and fishing rods and sporting prints hung. It is sad to be old as Mrs. de Tracy was old, but her age was of her own making, a shrinkage of the heart, a drying up of the wells of feeling that need not have been.
Hugh Carnaby's miserable doom, and the dark surmises attaching to his wife, doubtless had their part in bringing about a nervous crisis; why could he not recognise this as perfectly natural, and dismiss the matter? In spite of all reasoning, Alma's image ever and again appeared to him shadowed by the gloom which involved her friend or the woman who was her friend.
The police had as yet failed to get upon the track of the felonious housekeeper, known as Mrs. Maskell. Mrs. Carnaby's other servants still kept their places, protesting innocence, and doubtless afraid to leave lest they should incur suspicion. Domestic management was now In the hands of the cook.
I'm the last man to consult about such things. And Rolfe, with an abrupt 'Goodnight, beckoned to a passing hansom. The address he gave was Hugh Carnaby's, in Hamilton Terrace.
He rose in the morning with less anxiety about the day: and when playing, could forget school. There was no usher yet in Mr. Carnaby's place; and all the boys said their lessons to Mr. Tooke himself: which Hugh liked very much, when he had got over the first fear.
I was going to say, Dymes pursued, 'that the story Mrs. S. has been telling seems to me very clumsy, and that's why I don't think the other has any hand in it. She seemed to have forgotten that Redgrave's housekeeper, who was wanted by the police, wasn't likely to put herself in Carnaby's way the man she had robbed. I pointed that out, but she only laughed.
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