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He died before his brother, Lord Durnsville, and left neither chick nor child to inherit his money, nor yet the Durnsville title, which was extinct on the death of the viscount." "And what of the poor girl?" "Ay, poor lass, what of her? It was fourteen years after she left her home before her sister got so much as a line to say she was in the land of the living.
Lord Durnsville and his brother are not popular in the country, and there are no falsehoods too cruel for the malice of his enemies. She answered him with some such fine speech as that, and when the next morning came she was gone." "She eloped with Mr. Kingdon?" "Yes.
Kingdon stood very high, on account of his being Lord Durnsville's brother. But it was known that he was poor, and that the Durnsville estates were heavily encumbered into the bargain." "Then this gentleman would have been no grand match for Miss Meynell, if " "If he had married her?
"Well, my lad, what with her fine dress, and what with her pretty looks, Susan Meynell seems to have thought a little too much of herself; so that when Montagu Kingdon, of Kingdon-place, younger brother to Lord Durnsville, fell in love with her, and courted her not exactly openly, but with the knowledge of her sister, Mrs.
He scolded my sister, he warned me. It was all no use. I loved Montague Kingdon as you say you love me foolishly, recklessly. I could not disbelieve or doubt him. When he told me of his plans for our marriage, which was to be kept secret until Lord Durnsville had paid his debts, I consented to leave Newhall with him to be married in London.
It was arranged between Montague and my sister that we should be married as soon as his brother, Lord Durnsville, had paid his debts. The payment of the debts was an old promise of Lord Durnsville's, and an imprudent marriage on his brother's part might have prevented the performance of it. This is what Montague told my sister Charlotte.
It was no existence of splendour and luxury and riot, but one long struggle with debt and difficulty. We lived abroad not for our pleasure, but because Mr. Kingdon could not venture to appear in England. His brother, Lord Durnsville, had never promised to pay his debts. That was a falsehood invented to deceive my sister.
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