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Updated: June 28, 2025
It is easy to look grave over poor Rachel's slight, and partly unconscious, share in the business of the tragedy. But what girl of energy and strong affections would have had the melancholy courage to surrender her brother to public justice under the circumstances? Lord Chelford, who knew all, says that she 'acted nobly.
'Oh, Rachel, it is a great blow maybe if you thought it over! I'll wait any time. 'No, Lord Chelford, I'm quite unworthy of your preference; but time cannot change me and I am speaking, not from impulse, but conviction. This is our secret yours and mine and we'll forget it; and I could not bear to lose your friendship you'll be my friend still won't you? Good-bye.
She gives me the horrors, I assure you, whenever I look at her; you must not keep her, she's of no earthly use, poor old thing; and, you know, Radie, we're not rich enough you and I to support other people. You must really place yourself more cheerfully, and I'll speak to Chelford about Tamar. It is really not fair to expect you or me to keep people like that.
Holding her glasses to her eyes, the note at a distance, and her head rather back, she said 'It is not a pretty billet, and she read in a slow and grim way: 'DEAR CHELFORD, I'm called up to London just for a day. No lark, but honest business. I'll return on Saturday; and tell Dorcas, with dozens of loves, I would write to her, but have not a minute for the train. 'Yours, &c.
Can I have mistaken the name? But no. Nothing could be more perfectly distinct than 'Chelford, traced in her fair correspondent's very legible hand. 'He treats the young lady very coolly, thought Rachel, forgetting, perhaps, that his special relations to Dorcas Brandon had compelled his stay in that part of the world.
Captain Lake was not so low, and rather better than this morning, the doctor said; and Rachel raised her eyes, and whispered an agitated thanksgiving. 'Was Lord Chelford coming? 'His lordship had left the room when she returned, and Mr. Larcom said he was with Lawyer Larkin in the library. 'Mr. Larkin can wait. Tell Lord Chelford I wish very much to see him here. So away went the maid again.
The concluding sentence was spoken with a vile sneer and a measured emphasis directed at Lord Chelford, who coloured with a sudden access of indignation, and stood stern and menacing, as the attorney, with a general bow to the company, and a lofty nonchalance, made his exit from the apartment. Captain Lake was sinking very fast next morning.
Lord Chelford had joined the two ladies, and had something to say about German art, and some pleasant lights to throw from foreign travel, and devious reading, and was as usual intelligent and agreeable; and Mark was still more sore and angry, and strutted away to another table, a long way off, and tossed over the leaves of a folio of Wouverman's works, and did not see one of the plates he stared at so savagely.
Had James Dutton arrived and announced the death of Mark no; it could hardly be that decency had not yet quite taken leave of the earth; and stupid as the vicar was, he would hardly announce the death of his brother to a Christian gentleman in a fashion so outrageous. Had Lord Chelford been invoked, and answered satisfactorily?
You must arrange about Chelford and Lake. I don't know where Lake is staying. I don't suppose at Brandon; but he won't stay in the country nor spend his money to please you or I. Therefore you must have him at your house be sure and I will square it with you; I think three pounds a week ought to do it very handsome.
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