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'I won't give her a shilling if she marries any one else; that's all. You reminded me down at Caversham that your son is a Director at our Board. 'I did; I did. 'I have a great respect for your son, ma'am. I don't want to hurt him in any way. If he'll signify to my daughter that he withdraws from this offer of his, because I'm against it, I'll see that he does uncommon well in the city.
"Indeed; and the four hundred and fifty pounds you won from Lord Caversham just before Christmas is that money gone?" "Every shilling of it," answered Reginald, coolly. He had notes to the amount of nearly two hundred pounds in his desk; but he was the last man in Christendom to sacrifice money which he himself required, and his luxurious habits kept him always deeply in debt.
His nature I cannot alter, but from my daughters I expect cheerful obedience. From what incidents of his past life he was led to expect cheerfulness at Caversham it might be difficult to say; but the obedience was there. Georgey was for the time broken down; Sophia was satisfied with her nuptial prospects, and Lady Pomona had certainly no spirits left for a combat.
I am sure that you will all be glad to welcome him among you. I had thought to strengthen our number by this addition. But if Mr Montague is determined to leave us, and no one will regret the loss of his services so much as I shall, it will be my pleasing duty to move that Adolphus Longestaffe, senior, Esquire, of Caversham, be requested to take his place.
You shall be turned out of my house, and I will never have your name pronounced in my presence again. It is disgusting, degrading, disgraceful! And then he left her. On the next morning before he started for Caversham he did see Mr Brehgert; but he told Georgiana nothing of the interview, nor had she the courage to ask him.
'The Melmottes coming to Caversham! said Roger, looking at Henrietta, who blushed with shame as she remembered that she had been brought into her lover's house solely in order that her brother might have an opportunity of seeing Marie Melmotte in the country. 'Oh yes, Madame Melmotte told me. I take it they are very intimate. 'Mr Longestaffe ask the Melmottes to visit him at Caversham!
But to be kept at Caversham all the summer would be as bad as hearing a bishop preach for ever! After the service they came back to lunch, and that meal also was eaten in silence. When it was over the head of the family put himself into the dining-room arm-chair, evidently meaning to be left alone there.
'I suppose we shall stay here at Caversham. 'And I'm to be buried just like a nun in a convent, only that the nun does it by her own consent and I don't! Mamma, I won't stand it. I won't indeed. 'I think, my dear, that that is nonsense. You see company here, just as other people do in the country; and as for not standing it, I don't know what you mean.
Lady Pomona hoped that Mr Carbury and his relatives, who, Lady Pomona heard, were with him at the Hall, would do the Longestaffes the pleasure of dining at Caversham either on the Monday or Tuesday following, as might best suit the Carbury plans. That was the purport of Lady Pomona's letter to Roger Carbury.
When it had been explained to him that the sale would be desirable in order that the Caversham property might be freed from debt, which Caversham property would eventually be his, he replied that he also had an estate of his own which was a little mortgaged and would be the better for money.
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