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Updated: May 16, 2025
Lady Clara has added to this by refusing to visit Houghton unless her stepmother is received there also. This quarrel may throw one of the richest inheritances in England out of my family, and all from my unfortunate marriage." "Your unfortunate marriage!" exclaimed Closs, hotly. "How could it be otherwise?" answered Lord Hope, sadly.
Closs, while I'm gone for I mean to strike while the iron is hot just have the goodness to look in on Mrs. S., she will feel it a compliment, being a trifle homesick and lonesome down here. But tell her to keep a stiff upper lip; there isn't many ladies, not even your barronessers and duchessers, that shall outshine her at the grand party up yonder."
Hepworth Closs had in all loyalty told Lady Clara of the invitation he had received from Olympia, and, instead of resenting it as he expected, she met his vague desire more than half-way one of the wisest things any woman can do, for half the sins in the world are committed because they are forbidden; not that this young girl knew of the wisdom.
"Hepworth does not know that; nor do I. Your father is a very proud man, Clara, and has a right to look high, for his only child." "What then? Mr. Closs is handsomer, brighter, more more everything that is grand and royal, than any nobleman I have ever seen. What can papa say against that?" "But he is a man of no family position simply Hepworth Closs, nothing more.
Yes, it is certain Closs loved the girl at first sight, but was unconscious of it, as the nest is when a dove settles down to its brooding. As for the girl, she had seen but few men in her life calculated to disturb the repose of a creature so gifted and rich in imagination.
Lord Hope had been absent a whole month now, and even with the excitement of her brother's presence, Rachael had found those four weeks terribly long. What would she do if that fair girl were separated from her entirely? Then solitude would be terrible indeed! But another anxiety came upon her by degrees. In what way would her husband receive Hepworth Closs?
"And then how much shall I have? Let me ask that of papa." "But you will inherit something with the Carset title in spite of your grandmother." "Yes, I know. An enormous old castle with just land enough to keep it in repair. That isn't much to boast of, or make a man like Mr. Closs feel modest when he thinks of me." "But the title. Is it nothing to be a peeress in your own right?"
"I picked it up by her bed that morning, after the murder. There is a person in the castle who saw me take it from the place where it had fallen. If any one here doubts me, let them ask a person called Margaret Casey let them ask her." That moment the door of the room opened, and Hepworth Closs stood on the threshold.
They were sitting together, under the great cedar tree, declared lovers; perhaps not the less happy because some little doubt rested over their future, so far as the young lady was concerned. As for Hepworth Closs, he had made up his mind to expect difficulties, and knew how to conquer them, if human ingenuity could do it.
"You're not to do that," he said. "I can't stand it. Go and pick up those other things and show them to me." "Loo can see zem from here." "Not what's in the box," he suggested diplomatically. "I'm tah'ed too," she said, suddenly sitting down on the floor. "You fesh 'em." "Will you play with them if I do?" She shook her head. "Not if loo're closs, and lude and naughty and ... stupid."
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