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Updated: May 2, 2025
The low light was shining through the woods, and on the reddening tops of the beeches. There was a sparkle of leaf here and there, and already a 'livelier emerald' showed in the grass. Suddenly a low booming sound repeated and repeated. 'Guns? said the Squire, listening. Elizabeth reminded him of the new artillery camp beyond Fallerton. But the sounds had transformed the April evening.
Then when at last Elizabeth had gone off to telephone some final orders to Captain Dell at Fallerton for the morning Pamela and Arthur were left alone. He came over to where she sat, and drew a chair beside her. 'Poor child! he said, under his breath 'poor child! She lifted her eyes, swimming in tears. 'Isn't it marvellous, how she's thought of everything done everything?
By that time the ground-floor of the west wing had been transformed into a temporary ward with its adjuncts, under the direction of a Fallerton doctor, who had brought Desmond into the world and pulled him through his childish illnesses. Elizabeth had moved most of the statues, transferred the Sargent sketch to the drawing-room, and put all the small archæological litter out of sight.
When I go into Fallerton now everybody all the tradesmen are as sweet as sugar. 'Well, that's something to the good, isn't it? Don't be unfair! 'I'm not unfair! cried Pamela. 'Don't you see how she just swallows up everybody's attention how nobody else matters when she's there! How, can you expect me to like that if she were an archangel which she isn't!
The estate of course used to be looked after in the good old-fashioned way by the family lawyers. But a few years ago the Squire quarrelled with these gentlemen, recovered all his papers, which no doubt went back to King Alfred, and resolved to deal with things himself. There is an office here, and a small attorney from Fallerton comes over twice or three times a week. But the Squire bosses it.
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