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We should be patronised, we should find it difficult to be ourselves there would be no profit for anybody. Lord Driffield would be too busy to look after us; besides, he has more power anywhere than in his own house. 'No one could patronise you, said Lucy, firing up again. 'I don't know, said David, with a smile and a stretch; 'I'm shy on other people's domains.
He took her in his arms, and she broke down and cried, sobbing out a catalogue of griefs that was only half coherent. But he saw at once that she had been neglected and slighted, nay more, that she had been somehow wounded to the quick. His clasped hand trembled on his knee. This was hospitality! He had gauged Lady Driffield well. 'An early train? he said, with frowning decision. 'Yes, of course.
In making an exploration of the Wolds a good starting-place is the old-fashioned town of Malton, whence railways radiate in five directions, including the line to Great Driffield, which takes advantage of the valley leading up to Wharram Percy, and there tunnels its way through the high ground.
To York, to Castle Howard, to Driffield, and to Whitby we went the road to the last-named place, by the way, being execrable. Evidently Bindo's present object was to ingratiate himself with young Clayton, but with what ulterior motive I could not conceive. Sir Charles remained constantly in the background.
A fibula of very peculiar form is found in these northern counties in great abundance. It is of bronze, and was found at Driffield, Yorkshire, in the grave of a female. Sometimes these fibulæ are richly ornamented with interlaced patterns, and heads of strange birds and animals. They are then generally gilt, and have been found of enormous size, eight inches in length by six in breadth.
She looked up at Mrs. Shepton with the childish air of one both hungry for gossip and conscious of the naughtiness of it. Mrs. Shepton laughed again. She had never seen anyone behave worse, she reflected, than Lady Driffield to this little Manchester person, who might be uninteresting, but was quite inoffensive. 'Friends! I should think so. An armed neutrality is all that pays with Lady Driffield.
The new truth of the future will emerge from it as a bud from its sheath, taking here and leaving there. He sat looking into the fire, forgetting his wife a little. 'Well, any way, I'm sure you and I won't have anything to do with it, said Lucy positively. 'I don't a bit believe Lady Driffield will have to work in the mills, though Mrs. Shepton did say it would do her good.
But just as he was about to launch a reply more congruous with his gout and his contempt for 'Driffield's low-life friends' than with the amenities of ordinary society, and while Lady Venetia was slowly and severely studying David through her eyeglass, Lord Driffield threw himself into the breach with a nervous story of some favourite 'man' of his own, and the storm blew over.
Then he would have his friends; selecting them more or less at random from up and down the ranks of literature and science, till Lady Driffield raised her eyebrows, invited a certain number of her own set to keep her in countenance, and made up her mind to endure. At the end of the ordeal Lord Driffield generally made the rueful reflection that it had not gone off well.
She was not often now so happily susceptible to a word of praise from him; she was more exacting than she had once been, but since her acquaintance with Lady Driffield she had been brought low! And her evil fortune returned upon her, alas, at breakfast, and throughout the day. Breakfast, indeed, seemed to her a more formidable meal than any.
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