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Updated: June 7, 2025
How was he going to get through life by any arrangement without that? No wonder such a woman as Kate Cookham had been keen to annex so rare a value. The right thing would have been that the highest price should be paid for it by such a different sort of logic from this nightmare of his having to pay.
One day she came up from Cookham earlier than usual, looking very beautiful in a white boating-frock and a straw hat with a Leander ribbon. Her hands and arms were hard with dragging a punting-hole, and she was sunburnt and happy, and hungry for tea. "Why don't you come down to Cookham and get out of this heat?" Miss Cavendish asked. "You need it; you look ill."
First comes Sonning with its rose gardens and quaint brick bridge; and then Marlowe with that long stretch of silver bordered by nodding trees and dominated by the robber Inn four shillings and six for a sawdust sandwich! And, between, best of all, lovely Cookham.
Long before we reached Ye Hutte from Cookham station Ye Hutte set amid bushy and climbing roses upon a prominent knoll of the many-knolled Dean we ceased to wonder that our picturesque imaginings of the region we were passing through had been so various.
Cookham parish, which we should traverse, claims quite loudly American kinship on the strength of its including an estate once the property of Henry Washington, who is alleged, without sufficient ground, to have been a relative of the general. But we are within the purlieus of Windsor. The round tower has been looking down upon us these many miles, and we cannot but yield to its magnetism.
Of course what had counted too in the odd order was that even at the end of the two or three years he had "allowed" her, Kate Cookham, gorged with his unholy tribute, had become the subject of no successful siege on the part either of Bill Frankle or, by what he could make out, of any one else.
So now you know," she said, leaning back where she faced him, but in a straighter chair and with her arms closely folded, after a fashion characteristic of her, as for some control of her nerves. "You came to show you've money?" "That's one of the things. Not a lot not even very much. But enough," said Kate Cookham. "Enough? I should think so!" he again couldn't help a bit crudely exhaling.
A quarter of an hour later they were on their way to Cookham. Leah seemed very much startled and even alarmed when she learnt their destination, and at first Malcolm found it difficult to reassure her. "Mrs. Godfrey!" she exclaimed. "Oh, I scarcely know her. Somehow she frightens me; her eyes seem to read one through and through. And then the Etheridges will be so near."
"'Where in the name of lifelong ruin are you to find Four Hundred?" Miss Cookham had mockingly repeated after him while he gasped as from the twist of her grip on his collar. "That's your look-out, and I should have thought you'd have made sure you knew before you decided on your base perfidy."
One felt like a happy child; pleased at nothing, content to exist where existence was a pleasure. You could not find more favourable specimens of New Zealand colonists than the two men, Trew and Domville, who stood before us in their working dress of red flannel shirts and moleskin trousers, "Cookham" boots and digger's plush hats.
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