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Think there have been Egremonts at Bridgefield for four hundred years! 'Very pretty talk, but how will it be with you, Miss. We shall have Fane, and I don't know how many more, coming after the scent of Bridgefield now, he said with a heavy sigh, ending with a bitter 'Hang them all! 'And welcome, said Nuttie, answering the thought rather than the words. 'Father, I wanted to tell you
Shielded by her illness, as well as by her simplicity and ignorance, she had never been aware of her aunt's attempted correspondence with the Egremonts, nor of their deafness to appeals made on her behalf.
It was the greater shock, for he had actually made inquiries at the Yacht Club, but the officials there either had not been made aware of the reappearance of the two Egremonts, or they did not think it worth while to look beyond the record which declared that all hands had perished, and the connection of the uncle and nephew with the Yacht Club had not been renewed.
Dutton intended to see his uncle, and try whether the agency, once rejected, could still be obtained for him. Learning from Miss Nugent that the Egremonts were in town, he went up thither with the purpose of asking for an interview. There was a new church in the immediate neighbourhood of his house in a state of growth and development congenial to the St. Ambrose trained mind, and here Mr.
They had glittered in great embassies with clever secretaries at their elbow, and had once governed Ireland when to govern Ireland was only to apportion the public plunder to a corrupt senate. Notwithstanding however this prolonged enjoyment of undeserved prosperity, the lay abbots of Marney were not content. Not that it was satiety that induced dissatisfaction. The Egremonts could feed on.
How had the Egremonts contributed to this prodigious result?
Dutton would undo the whole, and it was as if he were doing them an injury that the pair accepted the comfortable prospect he was able to offer them in Australia. He would have made the like proposal to the Egremonts, but found that Mark held himself bound by his promise to his father not to emigrate, and thought of some kind of office-work. Before trying to procure this for him, however, Mr.
'Now, Miss Mary, cried Nuttie, 'as if I could shorten my holiday now that I have it. 'And I don't see what business he had to call you to account, said Gerard. 'A stuck-up fellow. 'Of course all the Egremonts are set against my being here, said Nuttie. 'I thought the Canon offered to bring you last year, said Mary gently. 'Oh, that was only to Monks Horton!
'What did that young lady Miss Blanche tell us about that gentleman, Mary? asked Miss Headworth, hearing and uttering what Miss Nugent hoped had passed unnoticed. 'Oh, I think that was all gossip! returned Mary, 'and so I am sure did the Mark Egremonts. She said there was one of Mr. Egremont's friends, Mr.
Indeed, a box for the Miss Egremonts had been deposited by the Canon from the pony-carriage an hour ago, and was already in the dressing-room; but Miss Ruthven would not have them disturbed. Miss Ruthven, oh yes, she was up, she had not been in bed at all. No, Annaple Ruthven could not have slept, even if she had had time.
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