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Father did leave the estates to mother just because Corry had taken up such views so that she might keep us straight." "But afterward! My dear, he is so young! And young men change." Lady Coryston's death was not, of course, to be mentioned except with this awe and vagueness scarcely to be thought of. But hotter revolutionists than Corry have turned Tories by forty. Waggin harped on this theme.
This strange settlement of Lady Coryston's disinherited son socialist and revolutionist as a kind of watchman, in the very midst of the Coryston estates, at his mother's very gates, might not after all turn out so well as the democrats of the neighborhood had anticipated. The man was too queer too flighty. "Wait a bit! I think some of your judgments may be too hasty, Lord Coryston.
Coryston sprang up impetuously and came to stand over his mother, his hands on his sides. "Now look here, mother. Let's come to business. You've been plotting something more against me, and I want to know what it is. Have you been dishing me altogether? cutting me finally out of the estates? Is that what you mean? Let's have it!" Lady Coryston's face stiffened anew into a gray obstinacy.
Lady Coryston's tone became a trifle colder. "That I should have thought was obvious. You have been seeing a great deal of my son, Miss Glenwilliam; your your friendship with him has been very conspicuous of late; and I have it from himself that he is in love with you, and either has asked you, or will ask you, to marry him." "He has asked me several times," said the girl, quietly.
But to Lord William Newbury the house of Hoddon Grey stood as the symbol of a spiritual campaign in which his forebears, himself, and his son were all equally enrolled the endless, unrelenting campaign of the Church against the world, the Christian against the unbeliever. ... His wife broke in upon his reverie. "Are you going to say anything about Lord Coryston's letter, William?"
"They hope I needn't appear," said Marcia, dully. "I should rather think not!" Lady Coryston's indignant tone seemed to assume that English legal institutions were made merely to suit the convenience of the Coryston family. Marcia had enough of Coryston in her to perceive it. But she said nothing. As they entered the drawing-room after luncheon she remembered with a start. "Mother I forgot!
The churchman had momentarily disappeared in the indignant stickler for male prerogative and the time-honored laws of English inheritance. Lady William acquiesced in silence. She, too, strongly disapproved of Lady Coryston's action toward her eldest son, abominable as Coryston's opinions were.
It was to Marion as though the rugged figure of the Chancellor overshadowed them; just as, at that moment, in the political sense, it overshadowed England. Lady Coryston's quarters at Coryston Place were not quite so devoid of all the lighter touches as her London sitting-room.
"If she's happy, let her make a thank-offering!" said the inexorable Coryston. "Life won't spare her its facts why should we? Arthur! come and walk home with me!" Arthur demurred, stipulated that he should not be expected to be civil to any of Coryston's Socialist lodgers and finally let himself be carried off. Lester was left once more to the quiet of the library. "'I have advised Mrs.
"The view of Lord Coryston and yourself?" said Miss Glenwilliam, in her most girlish voice. "My son Coryston and I have at present no interests in common," was Lady Coryston's slightly tart reply. "That, I should have thought, considering his public utterances, and the part which I have always taken in politics, was sufficiently evident."
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