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"So I heard mamma say." "Well; I only came of age to-day, and I will not begin by running counter to them. But I tell you what, I won't stay above a week at Courcy Castle for all the de Courcys in Barsetshire. Tell me, Beatrice, did you ever hear of a Miss Dunstable?" Sir Roger Scatcherd
When, however, at this period he began to calculate what his position in the world really was, it occurred to him that he was doing an ill-judged thing in marrying Miss Gresham. Why marry a penniless girl for Augusta's trifle of a fortune was not a penny in his estimation while there was Miss Dunstable in the world to be won?
And Miss Wigram can't arrive till after the last train from here." "They know. They've ordered a special, to take Lord Dunstable and the solicitor to Edinburgh, to catch the midnight mail." "Oh, well if you can bully the fates like that! " said Doris, with a shrug. "How did he take it?" Meadows's tone changed. "It was a great blow. I thought it aged him."
It happened that Dunstable's people were going to make their annual migration to Scotland on that day, and the Headmaster, approached on the subject both by letter and in person, saw no reason why the examinations being over Dunstable should not leave Locksley a day before the end of term. He called Dunstable to his study one night after preparation.
Sowerby contrived to sit next to Miss Dunstable, thereby overturning a little scheme made by Mr. Supplehouse, he again shone forth in unclouded good humour. But Mr. Harold Smith became impatient immediately on the withdrawal of the cloth. The lecture was to begin at seven, and according to his watch that hour had already come.
Why was she immured in this stupid room, to which Lady Dunstable had conducted her with a chill politeness which had said plainly enough "Here you are and here you stay! till dinner!" "If I could only find a back-staircase," she thought, "I would soon be enjoying myself! Arthur, lucky wretch, said something about playing golf. No! there he is!"
What she had come to say to Lady Dunstable he could not conceive; for the first explanation that of a silly jealousy had by now entirely failed him. But it was evident to him that Lady Dunstable assumed it or chose to assume it. And for the first time he thought her odious! Doris seemed to guess it, for she pressed his arm as though to keep him quiet. "Before lunch, please," she repeated.
Some day, she supposed, if it was to be her lot to visit country houses, she would get used to their ways. For Arthur, of course, it was useful perhaps necessary to be put through his paces by a woman like Lady Dunstable. "And he can hold his own. But for me? I contribute nothing. I don't belong to them they don't want me and what use have I for them?"
Before we separated, however, I had learned that he was returning to Dunstable by the four o'clock train, and had resolved to despatch my business in time to travel home with him. When I reached Wall Street I was received with the news that the man I had appointed to meet was ill and detained in the country. My business was "off" and I found myself with the rest of the day at my disposal.
I do love to set people eating and drinking Mr. Supplehouse, I am delighted to see you; but do tell me " and then she whispered with great energy into the ear of Mr. Supplehouse, and Mr. Supplehouse again whispered into her ear. "You think he will, then?" said Miss Dunstable. Mr. Supplehouse assented; he did think so; but he had no warrant for stating the circumstance as a fact.
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