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Lady Carset is, after all, an aged woman; but it would be mournful to see her broken down. Let me think. She is quite as old, if not older, than my grandfather, is she not?" "There is not a year between them, I have heard my father say," answered Judson, with a prim consciousness of the delicate subject they had trenched upon; "not that I know of myself." "Certainly not.
Hannah Yates lost all the unnatural strength that had brought her among this splendor. She knew that it was scarcely possible that she could speak with Lady Carset that night, if she could, indeed, gain admittance to the castle; but she went around to a back entrance, and so made her way, unseen, to the tower-chamber, which opened into Lady Carset's dressing-room.
After a little, the windows along the façade of the building were thrown back, and a gay throng poured itself into a broad balcony, that projected a little over the stone terrace, where the wine was flowing, and the eager people crowding forward for the first look. Foremost came Lord Hilton, leading Clara Lady Carset by the hand.
"I will do anything, everything that you wish, only do not leave me again." "But I must sometimes go out." "And I cannot go with you. Rachael Closs is not good enough for your high-born friends. Lady Carset has put her ban on your wife, and the nobility of England accept it. But for this I might have been the companion of your visits, the helpmate of your greatness for I have the power.
Getting into scrapes, child; why there never was a family so reckless or so independent. That is, I speak of the males, remember! the ladies of the house but you will see in the picture gallery, and judge for yourself. No commonplace women can be found among the Carset ladies. Some of them, my child, have intermarried with Royalty itself. You are the last of the line, Lady Clara."
Does that belong to the Carset blood, I wonder?" The waiting-maid stood petrified when the old countess broke into a soft, pleasant laugh, at what she deemed the insolent familiarity of this speech. "Did you hear that?" she exclaimed, wiping the moisture from her eyes, and increasing the vibrations of her head. "Who but a Carset would dare ask such questions?
Leave me this one gleam, or, failing in that, give me such chances as time may bring." Again Lord Hope answered with that keen smile. "I withhold nothing from you but my consent." "But, if Lady Carset gives hers?" "Then I can safely promise mine." Again the smile came, and pierced Hepworth like an arrow.
But she is heiress in entail to the Carset title and Houghton Castle, a noble title, without support, unless the old countess makes her heiress, by will, of her personal estates. By marrying your sister, I mortally offended this old lady. Rachael has been, from first to last, the special object of her dislike.
She was to get up, and prepare for a journey at once; her maid was packing already. What was it? What had happened? Lord Hope forgot that he had not told her. The old Countess of Carset had sent for her. She must prepare to start at once for Houghton. Clara sprang up, ready to offer battle to the old countess a second time in behalf of her stepmother.
"But I think of her; I was thinking of her then. Indeed, indeed, grandmamma, I always must love mamma Rachael, for she has been everything that is good and kind to me I only wish you could understand how kind. If I know anything it is because she taught me." "Among other things, perhaps she taught you to hate that cruel old Lady Carset," said the countess, a little suspiciously.
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