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Victor Carrington looked on, and shared his spoils; but he watched Eversleigh's schemes with a half-contemptuous air. "You think you are doing wonders, my dear Reginald," he said; "and certainly, by means of Mr. Dale's losses, you and I contrive to live to say nothing of our dear Madame Durski, who comes in for her share of the plunder.
"What a pity it is you women all write so much alike that it's uncommonly difficult to swear to your writing. I'm perplexed by this letter. I can't quite understand being summoned away from my pet. I think you know Lady Eversleigh's hand?" "Yes," answered the lady; "I received two letters from her before coming here. I could scarcely be mistaken in her handwriting." "You think not?
"You may ask me any questions you please," returned Miss Brewer, in a hard, cold, even voice; "and I will answer them as truthfully as I can." "Do you know anything of Douglas Dale's family connections and antecedents?" "I know that his mother was Sir Oswald Eversleigh's sister, and that he and Lionel Dale, who was drowned on St.
She was deeply impressed by his generous devotion, and she could not but compare this self-sacrificing love with the base selfishness of Reginald Eversleigh's conduct. "You do not ask me if I can return your affection," she said, after that earnest look. "You offer to raise me from degradation and poverty, and you demand nothing in return."
"Because I must watch his proceedings and intentions in fact, know all about him in order to discover whether it will suit my interests best to forward Eversleigh's plans with respect to Lady Verner, or to betray them to Dale." Miss Brewer looked at him with something like admiration. She thought she understood him so perfectly now, that she need ask nothing farther.
The countryman went straight to the blue parlour, opened the door, and went in. The door closed behind him, and then Jane Payland heard the faint sound of voices within the apartment. It was evident that this countryman was Lady Eversleigh's expected guest. Jane's wonderment was redoubled by this extraordinary proceeding. "What does it all mean?" she asked herself.
It seemed still more strange that a woman of Lady Eversleigh's rank and fortune should go on a Continental journey with no other attendant than a maid-servant. If the eyes of the world could have followed Lady Eversleigh, they would have made startling discoveries.
The story of the elopement had been fully discussed on the previous day at the "Hen and Chickens," and everywhere else in the village of Raynham. The country gossips shook their heads over Lady Eversleigh's iniquity, but they said little. This new event was of so appalling a nature, that it silenced even the tongue of gossip for a while.
Honoria Eversleigh's was a proud spirit; and until the whole county should acknowledge her innocence, she would receive no one. "Let them think of me or talk of me as they please," she said; "I can live my own life without them." Thus the long winter months passed by, and Honoria was alone in that abode whose splendour must have seemed cold and dreary to the friendless woman.
Within a fortnight after the night on which Black Milsom had been invited to supper in the servants'-hall, Captain Copplestone quitted Raynham Castle for an indefinite period, for the first time since Lady Eversleigh's departure.
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