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A little fire is kindling in her own eyes; she had objected to that last repulsion. "Sudden! After all these months!" He pauses. "Is it to be Dunkerton or me?" asks he violently. "Please do not bring Lord Dunkerton into this discussion," says she coldly. "I certainly shall." "You mean that I " "Have encouraged him. So I hear, at all events, and there are things I remember."
Peeping over them on the R. are the Quantocks, and to the L. lie the Wiltshire Downs. At the foot is a wooded vale dotted with villages. Dunkerton, a small colliery village 2-1/2 m. The church has been rebuilt. The chancel contains a Dec. piscina, and a fragment of diaper-work is inserted in the porch. Dunster, a village 24 m. N.W. from Taunton.
"About that silly girl?" "No. About you!" His tone is short almost violent. "About me?" She changes colour. "Yes, you. She accuses you of encouraging that wretched old man, Dunkerton. Do you hear? Speak! Is it true?" "This is madness!" says Marian, throwing out her hands. "How could you believe such folly? That old man! Why will you give ear to such gossip?"
What had his mother meant by saying that Marian was laying herself out to catch Lord Dunkerton, an old baron in the neighbourhood, with some money and a damaged reputation? That could not be true he would not believe it. That old beast! Marian would not so much as look at him. And yet had she not been very civil to him at that ball last week?
I may have said half a dozen words to Lord Dunkerton, but you how many half-dozen words have you said to Miss Bolton? Come, answer me that, as we seem bent on riddles." "All this is as nothing," says Rylton. "You know, as well as I do, that Miss Bolton has not a thought of mine! I want only one thing, the assurance that you love me, and I put it at marriage.
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