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'I meant no such thing, Mr Cumbermede. I should be very doubtful whether any amount of success in literature would enable you to restore the fortunes of your family. 'Were they so very ponderous, do you think? But in truth I have little ambition of that sort. All I will readily confess to is a strong desire not to shirk what work falls to my share in the world.
'What an unmerciful master you are! said Clara, looking at the heap. 'I thought you had gone home to lunch. 'I went home to dinner, I said. 'I get more out of the day by dining early. 'How is that, Mr Cumbermede? asked Miss Brotherton, with a nearer approach to cordiality than she had yet shown. 'I think the evening the best part of the day too good to spend in eating and drinking.
'Not many, I should think. Those matters are pretty well seen to now. 'By some one or other not always the rightful heirs. Life is full of the strangest facts, Mr Cumbermede. If I were a novelist, now, like you, my experience would make me dare a good deal more in the way of invention than any novelist I happen to have read. Look there, for instance.
'He would never leave me alone about it, I replied; 'and positively I shall take no measures at present. Some day I hope to punish him for deserting me as he did. For I had told him how Mr Coningham had behaved. 'Revenge, Mr Cumbermede? 'Not a serious one. All the punishment I hope to give him is but to show him the fact of the case, and leave him to feel as he may about it.
'Well, Master Cumbermede, you see I am able to give you more than I promised. 'Yes, I returned; 'you promised to show me the old house 'And here, she interposed, 'I show you a young lady as well. 'Yes, thank you, I said simply. But I had a feeling that Mrs Wilson was not absolutely well-pleased.
'May I come in for a few minutes, Mr Cumbermede? he asked again, already at the door by the time I had opened it. 'By all means, Mr Coningham, I replied. 'Only you must tie your horse to this ring, for we I have no stable here. 'I've done this before, he answered, as he made the animal fast. 'I know the ways of the place well enough. But surely you're not here in absolute solitude?
'Only you must allow, Mr Cumbermede, that that that The poor lady was evidently unprepared to meet me on the old footing, and, at the same time, equally unwilling to hurt my feelings. 'I should be sorry to make you run a risk for my sake, I said. 'Please just answer me one question. Do you know what it is to be misunderstood to be despised without deserving it?
'I thought there were too many lawyers already. One so often hears of barristers with nothing to do, and glad to take to the pen, that I thought it might be better to begin with what I should most probably come to at last. 'Ah! but, Mr Cumbermede, there are other departments of the law which bring quicker returns than the bar.
After gazing at me fixedly for a moment or two, she turned away and ascended the stair, which went up straight from the door, saying 'Come with me, Master Cumbermede. You must have some tea before you go. I obeyed, and followed her into a long, low-ceiled room, wainscotted all over in panels, with a square moulding at the top, which served for a cornice.
He was never a man of the world. 'You are right there, Mr Coningham. It is the last epithet any one would give my uncle. 'And the first any one would give me, you imply, Mr Cumbermede. 'I had no such intention, I answered. 'That would have been rude. 'Not in the least. I should have taken it as a compliment.
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