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'I think I'll let him have a feed, and have a mouthful of bread and cheese myself. He went out, and had I suppose gone to see that his horse had his proper allowance of oats, for when he returned he said merrily: 'What have you done with my daughter, Mr Cumbermede? 'Why should you think me responsible for her, Mr Conningham? I asked, attempting a smile.
'Only, you see, Mr Cumbermede, she interrupted with a half-smile, and a little return of her playful manner 'I didn't wish it. 'No. You preferred the man who had the property. It was a speech both cruel and rude. She stepped a pace back, and looked me proudly in the face. Prefer that man to you, Wilfrid! No. I could never have fallen so low as that.
'I cannot tell what 'What use I may be going to make of the information you give me. In a word, you do not trust me. 'I neither trust nor distrust you, Mr Cumbermede. But I am afraid of being drawn into a correspondence with you. 'Then I will ask no promise. I will hope in your generosity. Here is my address.
I took no further notice of him, but followed Sir Giles through the armoury. He came after me, step for step, at a little distance, and as I stepped out into the gallery, said, in a tone of insulting politeness: 'You will send the sword as soon as may be quite convenient, Mr Cumbermede? Or shall I send and fetch it? I turned and faced him in the dim light which came up from the hall.
'Really, Miss Coningham, I think the least we can do is to help Mr Cumbermede to our small ability. We sha'n't be allowed to come to-morrow if we overdo it to-day. Miss Brotherton was evidently on the point of saying something indignant, but yielded notwithstanding, and I was left alone once more. Again I laboured until the shadows grew thick around the gloomy walls.
But the end is not yet; and still I insist the probability is that, if you could know it all now, you would say with submission, if not with hearty concurrence "Thy will be done." 'I have known people who could say that without knowing it all now, Mr Cumbermede, said Mary. I had often called her by her Christian name, but she had never accepted the familiarity.
'Very well; we won't then. But I was only explaining to Mr Cumbermede how I supposed it was that his uncle did not like me. There was no offence in that, I hope, Mr Cumbermede? 'Certainly not, I answered. 'I am the only offender. But I was innocent enough as far as intention goes. I came in drenched and cold, and the good people here amused themselves dressing me like a girl.
When I am properly attended to, I shall have no occasion to trouble her. She led me to Sir Giles's study. Except newspapers and reports of companies, there was in it nothing printed. He rose when we entered, and came towards us. 'Looking like your work already, Mr Cumbermede? he said, holding out his hand. 'I must not shake hands with you this time, Sir Giles, I returned.
'I find, however, said Charley, 'that the name of Cumbermede is not mentioned in your papers more than about a hundred years back as far as I have yet made out. 'That is odd, I returned, 'seeing that in the same chest we find that book with my name, surname and Christian, and the date 1630. 'It is strange, he acquiesced, 'and will perhaps require a somewhat complicated theory to meet it.
His face was pale, and his eye flashing. Was it that he had roused me more effectually than he had hoped? 'Take care, take care, my boy, he said, 'or you won't live to enjoy your own. Permit me the honour of shaking hands with Sir Wilfrid Cumbermede Daryll.
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