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He did not dislike the children, and Kitty liked anything that needed to be waited on. He took Clara's services as a right, but was a little afraid of 'Mrs. Dynevor, and highly flattered by any attention from her; and with James his moods were exceedingly variable, and often very trying, but, in general, very well endured.
Dynevor came in, and seemed pleased to find Louis there; even asking him whether he could not join them on their tour, and help Clara to speak French. 'No, thank you, sir, said Louis, 'I am afraid my company brought no good luck last time. 'Never mind that manage better now ha, Clara. 'It would be very nice; but he has a great deal too much to do at home, said Clara.
She was fully employed nursing Isabel, doing honour to the little one, answering Oliver's letters, superintending Clara's wardrobe; choosing parting gifts for innumerable friends, high and low; and making arrangements for the inexperienced household. Jane's place was to be not exactly supplied, but occupied by a cook. Miss Dynevor was to have 'a personal attendant; and Mrs.
And if in times to come those who come after know not that it was the son of Res Vychan who thus reclaimed his patrimony, and if our worthy chroniclers set down that Dynevor and its lands passed to the keeping of the English, what matters it? We know the truth, and those who have loved thee and thy father know who thou art and whence thou hast come. Let that be sufficient for thee and for me.
Now, therefore, he looked eagerly at his mother and said: "What is it he wishes to say Canst thou not tell me thyself?" The Lady of Dynevor paused awhile in thought; and when she spoke, it did not appear to be in direct reply to her son's question. "Wendot," she said gravely, "thou hast heard much talk of the troubled state of these times and of the nation's affairs.
'Louis, said Mary Ponsonby, as she sat at work beside him that afternoon, after an expedition to the new house at Dynevor Terrace, 'I want to know, if you please, how you have been acting like a gentleman. 'I did not know that I had been acting at all of late. 'I could not help hearing something in Aunt Catharine's garden that has made me very curious. 'Ha! cried Louis, eagerly.
There was no feud so far between Llanymddyvri and Dynevor, but Wendot knew that his father was suspected of leaning towards the English cause, and that it would take little to provoke some hostile demonstration on the part of his wild and reckless neighbour.
Frost Dynevor was a man of refined taste, open-handed even to extravagance, liberal in all his appointments, and gratifying to the utmost his love of art and decoration, while his charities and generous actions were hearty and lavish enough to satisfy even his warm-hearted wife. Joined with all this was a strong turn for speculations.
But still it was her own son, and her own home, and Oliver and Cheveleigh were more to her than even James and Dynevor Terrace; so that, though she was sorry, it was not with a melancholy sorrow, and she could still hope against hope, that uncle and nephew might be brought together at last, and that a son of James would yet reign in the dear old place. Besides, she had not time to be unhappy.
The gentlemen whom she had met were seldom either deep or earnest, except those too much beyond her reach; and she had avoided anything like confidence or intimacy: but Mr. Dynevor could enlighten and vivify her perplexed reflections, answer her inquiries, confirm her opinion of books, and enter into all that she ventured with diffidence to express.
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