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Lastly, there descended on Clara's devoted head a cheque for a sum which terrified her imagination, and orders to equip herself suitably as Miss Dynevor of Cheveleigh, who was to enjoy the same allowance half-yearly.
O Vychan, Vychan, have not I always said that thou shouldest live to call thyself Lord of Dynevor again?" Gertrude came flying to her husband with these words, looking scarce less young and certainly none less bright and happy than she had done four years back, when she and her husband had first stood within the walls of her ancestral home.
Dynevor might be set free from the numerous English involvements, without sacrificing his remaining property in Peru.
Sir Andrew was not a lady's man; and, after he had heard how far Miss Dynevor had come to-day, that she had never ridden, and had not seen the Menai tubular bridge, he discontinued the difficult task; and she, finding that he had not even seen the cathedral, which she had passed only fifteen miles off, gave him up, and occupied herself with watching the infinite variety of affectations which Mrs.
I never believed he could have committed himself to such an open declaration, especially without warning. 'I'll not stay! cried Clara, with all the vehemence of her Dynevor nature. 'I'll go straight home to Northwold to-morrow morning to-night if I could. Yes, I will! I never came here for this! 'And what is to become of my poor Aunt Kitty? 'She has her Oliver!
Miss Frost was not a person to be rejected, and in another week she found herself setting out to breakfast with a girl and three boys, infusing Latin, French, and geography all the forenoon, dining with them, sometimes walking with them, and then returning to the merry evening of Dynevor Terrace. Mr. Dynevor endured the step pretty well.
"Why, brother, because the traveller has his little daughter with him, and her woman is in their train of servants. I know not what has brought them hither, but I gather they have lost their road, and lighted by chance on Dynevor.
He scarce knew whether he were glad or sorry that Gertrude came out to meet him, and drew him towards the little group which had gathered in a deep embrasure of the window. Joanna, Alphonso, and Griffeth were there. They had been eagerly questioning the younger lad about life at Dynevor, and what they would do when they were at home all together.
Wendot had been perplexed at times by the persistence with which he had been addressed as Griffeth, even when he was certain that the speaker was one of the few who knew him and his brother apart; but he had not troubled his head much over the matter until this day, when Alphonso had openly spoken to him of the plan that was in their minds, and had bidden him prepare for a secret flight from the castle, promising that there should be no ardent search after him, as Wendot, and not Griffeth, was the culprit who had fallen under the royal displeasure, and the king would care little for the escape of the younger brother so long as he held the ex-Lord of Dynevor in his own safe keeping.
As she passed, she heard Vivian laugh, "Do you remember?" The evening seemed to Lucy interminable. Tony was very good. He did his duty very nobly, dancing with every one, even his wife. At half-past one they went home. "How charming Lady Dynevor is," Lucy murmured. "Charming?" Tony looked puzzled. "Vivian?" It obviously seemed to him an almost grotesquely irrelevant, inadequate word.
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