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She went up to him and spoke in a lower tone. "If the Duchess of Crowborough comes to-night, I should very much like to see her, and I know she wants to see me. Do you think it could possibly disturb Lady Henry if you were to show her into the library for twenty minutes?" The man considered. "I don't think there could be anything heard up-stairs, miss.
The tawdriness she particularly disliked the trashy gold and ivory of the decorations, the artificial rose-bushes from which the dust was never removed, the sumptuous velvet carpets which were not taken up in the summer. While she was crossing the street a man joined her; and glancing up as soon as she was clear of the traffic, she saw that it was Judge Crowborough.
Not to feel, not to realize; there lay the only chance of keeping one's own courage, and so of being any help whatever to two of the most miserable of human beings. At last, rather more than a week after Delafield's departure, came two telegrams. One was from Delafield "Mervyn died this morning. Duke's condition causes great anxiety." The other from Evelyn Crowborough "Elmira died this morning.
"But surely," she said after a pause, "you don't cut yourself on purpose?" She was an abysmal fool. I didn't think so at the time. She was Lady Thisbe Crowborough. This fact hallowed her. That we didn't get on at all well was a misfortune for which I blamed only myself and my repulsive appearance and the unforgettable horror that distracted me.
"Of course," Bridget continued, with her eyes still on the photograph, "it isn't so distinctly handsome as Mark's." "Perhaps not," was the answer; "I thought you had seen him while we were at Crowborough. Mr. Clynesworth. Although his name is Rupert everybody has called him Jimmy since his school days." "I remember Miss Clynesworth," suggested Bridget. "His sister or, rather, his half-sister.
He even computed elements for the nearer of the two, and fixed its place on the celestial sphere; but the photographic searches made for it by Dr. Roberts at Crowborough and by Mr. Wilson at Daramona proved unavailing.
Crowborough, who had been married for her money, looked as sympathetic as a moral principle or an organized charity. Unfortunately, for she was rather heavy in company, Judge Crowborough was obliged by custom to bring her to dinner; and she came willingly, inspired less by sociability than by the virtuous instinct which animated her being. Mr.
"You remember Bridget Rosser, Phoebe! When we stayed at Crowborough four years ago." "Five," suggested Lawrence, with his usual meticulous exactitude. "You were not there," said Mark. "But still," answered Lawrence, "I remember going down with father to look at the house before he made up his mind to take it." "I recollect Bridget perfectly well," said Carrissima in her most cheerful tone.
He would have obtained his heart's desire through her. How true were those last words, perhaps only Julie knew. She looked back upon all the manoeuvres and influences she had brought to bear flattery here, interest or reciprocity there, the lures of Crowborough House, the prestige of Lady Henry's drawing-room. Wheel by wheel she had built up her cunning machine, and the machine had worked.
"I suppose Lady Henry would reply that there are still a few houses in London which do not belong to her kinsman, the Duke of Crowborough." "Not perhaps to be had for the lending, and ready to step into at a day's notice," said Lord Lackington, with his queer smile, like the play of sharp sunbeams through a mist. "That's the worst of our class. The margin between us and calamity is too wide.
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