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She was expected to pardon the husband, who had not abstained from his revenge on her for keeping him to the pledge of his word. And what a revenge! he had flung the world at her. She is consequently to be the young bride she was on the memorable morning of the drive off these heights of Croridge down to thirty-acre meadow!
'Baby sleeps in the air, my lord, she replied. 'My lady has gone to Croridge. 'Sharp air for a child, isn't it? 'My lady teaches him to breathe with his mouth shut, like her father taught her when she was little. Our baby never catches colds. Madge displayed the child's face. The father dropped a glance on it from the height of skies. 'Croridge, you said? 'Her uncle, Lord Levellier's.
This had been his burning wish at Croridge, where he could have poured his heart to her and might have moved the wife's.
Informed at the house that her ladyship had been staying up on Croridge for the last two days, Fleetwood sent his hardest shot of the eyes at Gower. Let her be absent: it was equal to the first move of war, and absolved him from contemplated proposals to make amends.
Carinthia reached Esslemont near noon. She came on foot, and had come unaccompanied, stick in hand, her dress looped for the roads. Madge bustled her shorter steps up the park beside her; Fleetwood met her on the terrace. 'No one can be spared at Croridge, she said. 'I go back before dark. Apology was not thought of; she seemed wound to the pitch. He bowed; he led into the morning-room.
The girl was counselled by the tremor of her instincts to forbear to speak of the minor circumstance, that her mistress had, besides a good stick, a good companion on the road to Croridge: and she rejoiced to think her mistress had him, because it seemed an intimation of justice returning upon earth. She was combative, a born rebel against tyranny.
A healthy spot, Croridge, or there were virtues in the Meek family, he reflected, and had a shudder that he did not trace to its cause, beyond an acknowledgement of a desire for the warm smell of incense.
At Lekkatts beneath Croridge a lean midday meal was being finished hard on the commencement by a silent company of three. When eating is choking to the younger members of the repast, bread and cold mutton-bone serve the turn as conclusively as the Frenchman's buffet-dishes. Carinthia's face of unshed tears dashed what small appetite Chillon had.
'The classes with the crests, And the lining to their vests, Till down they jump, and empty leave A headless trunk that rests. Carinthia had a study of the humours of English character in the person of the wounded man she nursed on little Croridge, imagining it the most unobserved of English homes, and herself as unimportant an object.
She has flown for refuge to her uncle, Lord Levellier's house at a place named Croridge not in the gazetteer hard of access and a home of poachers, where shooting goes on hourly; but most picturesque and romantic, as she herself is!
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