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Updated: July 20, 2025
It is just because this poor girl is my friend. Oh! I only wish old Lady Carset would just die, and leave me everything! I would let the world see a specimen of independence I would! Don't speak to me, don't attempt to touch my hand, Mr. Closs! You haven't a spark of human nature in you. I have a good mind to leave you all, and go on the stage myself."
"It is Lady Hope, that person who was once a governess, and the young lady must be Hope's daughter by his first marriage the future Lady Carset, if the old countess ever dies, which she never will, if it is only to spite that woman yonder, whom she hates. Beautiful!" "You are speaking of Lady Hope? Yes, very; but strange! Night and morning are not farther apart than those two.
"Presuming upon your generosity, I have sent my steward and my own maid, that she may have proper protection on her journey. After my grand-daughter has been at Houghton long enough to feel that it is to be her home in the future, I shall expect the pleasure of a visit from you and Lady Hope. "LOUISA, Countess of Carset."
This singular moral phenomenon astonished the neighbors and household of Lady Carset when she gave herself up, with the abandon of a child, to the caressing young creature, who had, it seemed, appeared in her home to win her back from the very brink of the grave, and make the sunset of her long life brighter with love than the dawn had been.
"Oh, yes, of course; it was impossible to refuse Lady Carset. We shall be at the castle some time, I am glad to say." How her magnificent eyes flashed. The very bend of her head was regal, as she thus announced a triumph she had been toiling for ever since she had become Lord Hope's wife. The scorn of that old woman at Houghton, had been the bane of her existence.
I know now that the man who pushed me from the window saved little Caroline Brown and brought her to you. She has since been known as your daughter. I saw her in your arms on board the steamer. Last night she was recognized as grand-daughter of Lady Carset." "But the other my own child?" "I had no means of telling you the truth at the time, and, after that, would not do it.
Before noon, that day, it was known in all the country around that the old countess, Lady Carset, lay in funeral state in the royal guest-chamber at Houghton Castle, for the long red flag was floating half-way down its staff, and a hatchment hung in mournful gorgeousness over the principal entrance between those two massive towers.
"I was afraid, my lady, that a dress like that might set you against the young lady." "Set me against my own grandchild, and she so unmistakably a Carset! I am surprised, Judson." "I am sure there was no idea in my mind of giving offense. She is a pretty young lady enough." "Pretty!
On that day, Clara, I will present you to the world as my grandchild and heiress." "Not yet! oh, not yet! Wait till you know more of me." "Hush! hush! This is not my only object. If I have wronged your stepmother, or neglected your father, the whole country shall see that a Carset knows how to make reparation. Lady Hope, too, shall be presented to my friends as an honored guest.
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