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Updated: June 27, 2025
The tired horse clattered upon the hard highway and clouds gathered for a night of storm. As Miss Barfoot's eye fell on the letters brought to her at breakfast-time, she uttered an exclamation, doubtful in its significance. Rhoda Nunn, who rarely had a letter from any one, looked up inquiringly. 'I am greatly mistaken if that isn't my cousin Everard's writing. I thought so. He is in London.
Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.
Kingsland was being transformed the landscape gardeners and the London upholsterers had carte blanche, and it was the story of Aladdin's Palace over again. Sir Everard rubbed his golden lamp, and, lo! mighty genii rose up and worked wonders. September came the miracles ceased. Even money and men could do no more. October came. Sir Everard's year of probation was expired.
Moreover, not once had he, by exclamation or innuendo, during the period of his recent grief for the loss of his first love, complained of his uncle Everard's refusal in the old days to aid him in suing for Renee. Rosamund had expected that he would. She thought it unloverlike in him not to stir the past, and to bow to intolerable facts.
"Not a bit of it, my dear fellow; I saw the young minx at Elm Grove, and knew her directly. 'Beautiful, but dangerous. I know her well." Everard's cheek flushed with anger. "Louis," said he, "I will not hear any one speak disrespectfully of Miss Leicester.
The main part of the family wealth, as the family mansion Gothurst now Gayhurst in Buckinghamshire, came from Sir Everard's wife, Mary Mulsho; and probably that is one reason why James I acceded to the doomed man's appeal that his widow and children should not be reduced to beggary.
I have never spoken to any one of the engagement; it was something too absurd, and also too sacred. The smile died from Everard's face, and he sat in thought. 'Now, when are you going to marry? cried Micklethwaite, with a revival of his cheerfulness. 'Probably never. 'Then I think you will neglect a grave duty. Yes. It is the duty of every man, who has sufficient means, to maintain a wife.
He saw the deed done saw Sybilla Silver, dressed in Sir Everard's clothes, do it, and has come all the way from America to testify against her. Sir Everard, my dear friend, from the bottom of my soul I congratulate you on your most blessed escape!" "Thank you!" he said. "If my life is spared, it is for some good end, no doubt. Thank God!
At this moment Alice, summoned no doubt by her attendant, entered the hall hastily. "Master Kerneguy," she said, "my father requests to see you in Victor Lee's apartment." Kerneguy arose and bowed, but seemed determined to remain till Everard's departure, so as to prevent any explanation betwixt the cousins.
What domestic issues supervened in Vannicock's further story the man in the oriel never knew; but Mrs. Maumbry lived and died a widow. Whoever had perceived the yeoman standing on Squire Everard's lawn in the dusk of that October evening fifty years ago, might have said at first sight that he was loitering there from idle curiosity.
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