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Updated: May 11, 2025
I believe yes, I do believe though she never told me that's why she went to London. Elizabeth rose from her knees. For a moment she was struck dumb. And when at last she spoke it was only to repeat the name Mrs. Gaddesden had mentioned in utter bewilderment. 'Captain Chicksands! What can you mean?
I shan't be long. Can you wait a bit? 'Right you are. I've got to leave a note at the Ministry of Munitions, but I'll be back in a few minutes. Arthur Chicksands went his way to Whitehall Gardens, while Major Mannering disappeared into the inner regions of that vast building where dwell the men on whom hang the fortunes of an Empire.
Henry, afterwards knighted, was probably the jealous brother who lived at Chicksands with Dorothy and her father, with whom she had many skirmishes, and who wished in his kind fraternal way to see his sister well that is to say, wealthily married. Robert is a younger brother, a year older than Dorothy, who died in September 1653, and who did not apparently live at Chicksands.
'Not yet? he said miserably 'not yet? breathing his life into the words, when Chicksands read him a letter from a staff officer in the Intelligence Department describing the enormous German preparations for the offensive, but expressing the view 'It may be some days more before they risk it!
'Remember, Slater, if I am detained, that I am expecting the two gentlemen from the War Agricultural Committee at six, and Captain Mills of the Red Cross is coming to dine and sleep. Ask Lady Chicksands to look after him in case I am late and put those Tribunal papers in order for me, by the way. I really must go properly into that Quaker man's case horrid nuisance!
They probably showed in her expression, for the Squire turned upon her as she made her remark about the submarines, examining her with a pair of keen eyes. 'Oh, I know very well what you and that fellow Chicksands think about persons like me who endeavour to see things as they are! he smote a chair before him 'and not as you and our war-party wish them to be. Well, well now then to business.
Forest, it appeared, had gone to tell him. Meanwhile Captain Chicksands was watching with a keen eye the relation between Miss Bremerton and Pamela. He saw that the Squire's secretary was scrupulously careful to give Pamela her place as daughter of the house; but Pamela's manner hardly showed any real intimacy between them. And it was easy to see where the real authority lay.
And as she, poor lady, was not accustomed to such attention from brilliant young men, his three days' visit was to her a red-letter time. With Sir Henry also he was on excellent terms, and made just as good a listener to the details of country business as to Lady Chicksands' domestic tales. And yet to Beryl he was in some ways more of a riddle than ever.
Pamela nodded as she gave him the soup, with instructions to carry it carefully and put it by the fire. She seemed to be in her gayest mood, and Chicksands' eyes followed her perpetually as she went backwards and forwards on her household tasks. Presently Mrs. Strang appeared, crimson from the fire, bearing the fishpie and vegetables that were to provide the rationed meal. 'To think, said Mr.
He looked up suddenly. 'Pamela, I have got something disagreeable to say to you. His daughter turned a startled face. 'I have had a quarrel with Sir Henry Chicksands, and I do not wish you, or Desmond, or any of my children, to have any communication henceforth with him, or with any of his family! 'Father, what do you mean? The girl's incredulous dismay only increased the Squire's irritation.
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