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Monsieur Chiverton, Bessie believed, was perfectly devoted and submissive to his wife he was not handsome nor youthful he had great estates and held a conspicuous position.
Miss Burleigh said, "Lady Latimer is another of our ambitious women. Miss Fairfax fancies women can have no ambition on their own account, Cecil. I have been telling her of Mrs. Chiverton." "And what does Miss Fairfax say of Mrs. Chiverton's ambition?" asked Mr. Cecil Burleigh. "Nothing," rejoined Bessie. But her delicate lip and nostril expressed a great deal.
It had formed itself round a dilapidated farm-house, now occupied as three tenements, in one of which lived the widow. The carriage stopped in the road, and Mrs. Chiverton got out with her companion and knocked at the door.
If it was ever just, time and circumstances were already reversing it. The early twilight overtook them some miles from Castlemount, but it was still clear enough to see a picturesque ivied tower not far removed from the roadside when they passed Carisfort. Bessie looked at it with interest. "That is not the dwelling-house that is the keep," Mrs. Chiverton said.
Chiverton said she would not urge her. Bessie gracefully acquiesced, and Mrs. Chiverton put in a more enticing plea: "I can scarcely expect to interest you in my occupations all at once, but they bring to me often the most gratifying returns. Read that letter." Bessie read that letter. "Very honeyed phrases," said she with her odd twist of the mouth, so like her grandfather.
Before post-time, however, he supposed he must let her choose her own associates, and if she chose Mrs. Chiverton for old acquaintance' sake, he would not refuse his consent, but Mr. Chiverton and he were not on intimate terms. Bessie went to Castlemount under escort of Mrs. Betts. Mrs. Chiverton was rejoiced to welcome her. "I like Miss Fairfax, because she is honest.
"You could not well say worse of a gentleman than that, Chiverton eh?" suggested Mr. Fairfax. There was a minute's silence, and then Mr.
Her manner is a little brusque, but she has a good heart, and we knew each other at school," was her reason given to Mr. Chiverton for desiring Bessie's company. They got on together capitally. Mrs. Chiverton had found her course and object in life already, and was as deeply committed to philanthropic labors and letters as either Lady Latimer or Lady Angleby.
"It is certainly a legitimate sphere of female influence in country neighborhoods." The stately bride drew her splendid dress aside to make room for him on the ottoman, and replied in a measured voice, "I am. I tell Mr. Chiverton that he does not satisfy the reasonable expectations of his people.
Laurence were unmarried, as all the world believed him to be, she would stand now as the greatest prospective heiress in this part of the county. If it was her fortune Mr. Cecil Burleigh wanted, he has had a deliverance." "I am far from sure that Burleigh thinks so," returned Mr. Chiverton significantly. "Oh, I imagined that projected marriage was one of convenience, a family compact."
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