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He handed to Lord Chelford a parcel of those clever and elaborate forgeries, with which Lake had last furnished him, with a pencilled note on each, directing the date and town at which it was to be despatched. Years after, when Jim was emigrating, I believe Lord Chelford gave him a handsome present.
The ladies had accomplished their ascension to the upper regions. The good vicar had marched off with the major, who was by this time unbuckling in his lodgings; and Chelford and I, tete-a-tete, had a glass of sherry and water together in the drawing-room before parting.
'I am very cruel to keep you here so long and I, too, am forgetting the vicar, who will be here immediately, and I must meet him in a costume less like the Woman of Endor. Lord Chelford, leaning on the little wicket, put his arm over, and she gave him her hand again. 'Good-bye, said Rachel.
He will view the question more calmly than you or I can; and we owe him that respect, Stanley, he has been so very kind to us. 'Chelford is the very last man whom I would think of consulting, answered Stanley, with his malign and peevish look. 'And why? asked Dorcas. 'Because he is quite sure to advise against it, answered Stanley, sharply.
Besides, it was, even if Chelford were at her feet, a wild impossibility now; and it was well, though despair were in the pang, that she had, at last, quite explained this to herself. As Rachel stood in her little garden, on the spot where she had bidden farewell to the vicar, she was roused from her vague and dismal reverie by the sound of a carriage close at hand.
'Won't you excuse me, but pray do. Willie, darling, don't you wish him to come in? 'Most particularly. Do beg of him, in my name and I know Mr. Larkin would wish it so much. And so Lord Chelford, with a look which, at another time, would have been an amused one, quite conscious of the oddity of his introduction, came in and slightly saluted Mr.
So soon as Dorcas obtained a hearing, which was not for sometime for she, 'as a miserable and ridiculous victim and idiot, was nearly as deep in disgrace as those 'shameless harpies the Lakes' she told the whole truth as respected all parties with her superb and tranquil frankness. Lady Chelford ordered her horses, and was about to leave Brandon next morning.
But rheumatism arrested her indignant flight; and during her week's confinement to her room, her son contrived so that she consented to stay for 'the odious ceremony, and was even sourly civil to Miss Lake, who received her advances quite as coldly as they were made. To Miss Lake, Lord Chelford, though not in set terms, yet in many pleasant ways, apologised for his mother's impertinence.
Lord Chelford was advised by the friend whom he consulted that he need not make those painful particulars public, affecting only a dead man, and leading to no result. Lake admitted that Rachel had posted the letters in London, believing them to be genuine, for he pretended that they were Wylder's.
'Rachel, perhaps you mean my mother I have told her everything she will receive you with all the respect you so well deserve; and with all her faults, she loves me, and will love you still more. 'No, Lord Chelford, no. She was pale now, and looking very sadly in his eyes. 'It is not that, but only that you must never, never speak of it again. 'Oh!
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