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'I will show you one which I think will suit your purpose, she said, leading the way. It was nearly opposite a bed-room, sparely furnished. 'Thank you. This will do if you will order all the things to be piled in that corner. She stood silent for a few moments, evidently annoyed, then turned and left the room, saying, 'I will see to it, Mr Cumbermede.
A smile found its way to her cold eyes, and set the blue sparkling for one briefest moment. 'It is very kind of you, Mr Cumbermede, but 'Kind! I exclaimed 'I want your help, Miss Pease. 'I'm afraid 'Lady Brotherton can't want you now. Do oblige me. You will find it fun. She smiled outright evidently at the fancy of any relation between her and fun.
In a little while she came back, sat down, and went on talking. I was beginning to get quite uneasy, when a maid put her head in at the door, and said 'Please, Mrs Wilson, the dog-cart's ready, ma'am. 'Very well, replied Mrs Wilson, and turning to me, said more kindly than she had yet spoken 'Now, Master Cumbermede, you must come and see me again.
Suffice it to mention that one morning at length I caught sight of her in a street in Mayfair, where the family was then staying for the season, and overtaking addressed her. She started, stared at me for a moment, and held out her hand. 'I didn't know you, Mr Cumbermede. How much older you look! I beg your pardon. Have you been ill?
'Your room was got ready for you, anyhow, Master Cumbermede, said Mrs Wilson. 'It does not follow that I occupied it, I returned. 'I can prove that false, said Brotherton; but, probably lest he should be required to produce his witness, only added, 'At all events, he was seen in the morning, carrying the sword across the court before any one had been admitted.
It was not so dark but that I saw her bosom heave and a flush overspread her countenance. 'You wished to see me, Miss Coningham, I said. 'I am at your service. 'What is wrong, Mr Cumbermede? You never used to speak to me in such a tone. 'There is nothing wrong if you are not more able than I to tell what it is. 'Why did you come if you were going to treat me so? 'Because you requested it.
She is all that is left of him to me now. Can you tell me anything about her? 'She has been very ill, she replied. 'I hope that means that she is better, I said. 'She is better, and, I hear, going on the Continent, as soon as the season will permit. But, Mr Cumbermede, you must be aware that I am under considerable restraint in talking to you.
I lighted my lamp at last, unlocked what had seemed to my childhood a treasury of unknown marvels, took from it the packet of yellow withered letters, and sat down again by the fire to read, in my great-grandmother's chair, the letters of Wilfrid Cumbermede Daryll for so he signed himself in all of them my great-grandfather.
'And now I remember; the old man resumed, after a moment's thought 'the other evening Mr Alderforge a man of great learning, Mr Cumbermede told us that the name of Cumbermede had at one time belonged to our family. It is all very strange. I confess I am utterly bewildered.
I drew back to escape his notice, but his quick eye had caught sight of me, for he came into the room with outstretched hand. 'We are fated to meet, Mr Cumbermede, he said. 'I only stopped to give my horse some meal and water, and had no intention of dismounting. Ale? I'll have a glass of ale too, he added, ringing the bell.
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