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He was opening his letters, three or four of which lay in a stack. He had gone out in the morning before the post was in. Tynn knocked at the door and entered, bringing a note. "Where's this from?" asked Lionel, taking it from the salver. Another moment, and he had recognised the handwriting of his mother. "From Deerham Court, sir. My lady's footman brought it.
Additional servants were obliged to be had; and, in short, to use an expression that was much in vogue at Deerham about that time, Verner's Pride was going the pace. This continued until early spring. In February Sibylla fixed her heart upon a visit to London. "Of course," she told Lionel, "he would treat her to a season in town." She had never been to London in her life to stay.
There's not a shadow of doubt that in her passion, her unhappy state of feeling, she flung herself in; and if Luke had only waited two minutes longer, he might have been in at the death as we say by the foxes. That's the solution of what has puzzled Deerham for years, Lionel." "Could Luke not have saved her?" "He never knew she was in the pond.
"Lucy, my dear, do you remember what I was telling you the other evening, about the black coral?" Sibylla rose and approached Lucy with Lionel. "I am so pleased to make your acquaintance," she said warmly. "You only came to Deerham a short while before I was leaving it, and I saw scarcely anything of you. Lionel has seen a great deal of you, I fancy, though he will not speak of you.
She took this house, Deerham Court, then to be let without the land, had it embellished inside and out which cost her more than she could afford, and had since resided in it. She would not have rented under Mr. Verner had he paid her to do it. She declined all intercourse with Verner's Pride; had never put her foot over its threshold. Decima went once in a way; but she, never.
Lucy toyed with her tea-spoon, toyed with her breakfast; but the capability of eating more had left her. The suddenness of the announcement had taken away her appetite, and a hundred doubts were tormenting her. Should she never again return to Deerham? never again see Li "We must make a call or two to-day, Lucy." The interruption, breaking in upon her busy thoughts, caused her to start.
Master Cheese did not fail to talk of this abroad; the surgery boy, Bob, who had listened with open ears, did not fail to talk of it, and it spread throughout Deerham; additional testimony to that already accumulated.
Do you think Deerham and its reminiscences can be so pleasant to me that I should care to stop in it, unless compelled?" "Bother reminiscences!" rejoined Mr. Massingbird. "I conclude you make believe to allude to the ups and downs you have had in regard to Verner's Pride. That's not the cause, Lionel Verner if you do want to go away. You have had time to get over that.
This led him into the only really good room the house contained. It was elegantly furnished and fitted up, and its two large windows looked towards the open country, and to Deerham Hall. Seated by the fire, in a rich violet dress, a costly white lace cap shading her delicate face, that must have been so beautiful, indeed, that was beautiful still, was a lady of middle age.
For it was evident that he was not withheld by any resentment toward her from her former rejection: even his looks, his words, had betrayed that he had done more than forgive. Lady Charlotte Deerham had heard from Saville of their former attachment: she was a woman of the world, and thought it but common delicacy to give them all occasion to renew it.
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