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Updated: June 23, 2025
Lord Elvedon is only father's cousin, and they never stay near here. Father and mother see them sometimes in London, but they've got a very large family, and they're not rich not extra rich themselves; for the one before this Lord Elvedon, the one who was father's uncle, you see, was very extravagant, though it was mostly his brother's fault that was our grandfather.
By the way, that reminds me was it you, my dear? and she turned somewhat abruptly to Frances 'was it not you who once mentioned some school-fellows of the name, and afterwards something was said which removed the impression that they could possibly be Elvedon Harpers? I am confused about it.
'They have never lived all the year round at Elvedon, I fancy, and now of course it is let. 'Lady Myrtle's name used to be Harper, she told us, said Frances, who never cared to be very long left out of the conversation, 'and there are some girls called Harper at our school. But Jacinth says it's quite a common name. 'No, Frances, I didn't say that, said Jacinth.
'It felt very like Stannesley, was the verdict of the two younger ones, who had not been at Elvedon before, which seemed to please Lady Myrtle. 'Yes, she said. 'I think you will feel more at home than if you spent the day at Thetford.
'Ah, yes, our Indian possessions cost us dear in some ways. Though it is nothing to the old days; my people were soldiers for generations you know, so we had full experience of these difficulties. I and my brothers were born in India; my father was only captain in his regiment when he came into the Elvedon title and property unexpectedly.
It is awfully sad, and for her sake as well as ours, mother and I have often said how we wished she knew father. He would make up to her for the disappointment in her brothers. 'Isn't Lord Elvedon nice? asked Frances; 'that's her other nephew, isn't he? 'Oh yes, I think he's a good sort of a man, but not clever, said Bessie. 'Not like father. 'And then our boys, added Margaret.
I should be false to my dead father if I did otherwise. 'Still, the late Lord Elvedon your father, I mean looked forward to his elder son's children being reinstated, Colonel Mildmay ventured to say. 'Why then, in the actual circumstances of his younger grandchildren being to the full as worthy and in far greater need, why treat them so differently?
Father says a good deal will go back to the title when Lady Myrtle dies, and she is quite friends with the present Lord Elvedon, her nephew. But she couldn't bear her brother Bernard I believe he behaved very badly to her and to all his people and she has never taken the least notice of father, though father is really a sort of an angel; and Margaret's eyes glistened.
On Christmas Day the large landau, quite roomy enough for half a dozen instead of four, took them all to Elvedon church, where they sat with Lady Myrtle in the square, be-curtained pew one of those appropriated to the Court, which was kept for the lady from Robin Redbreast.
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