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I don't altogether like what I hear sometimes about the Fallodens. Of course Sir Arthur's very rich, but they say he's been speculating enormously, and that he's been losing a good deal of money lately. However, I don't suppose it matters. Their place, Flood Castle, is really splendid old to begin with, and done up! They have copied the Americans and given every room a bathroom.
Mulholland. "Ah, well, I think you know Douglas Falloden" the tone was just lightly touched with significance "and if you can lecture him do!" Then she abruptly changed her subject: "I suppose you have scarcely yet made acquaintance with your two aunts who live quite close to the Fallodens in Yorkshire?" Constance looked up in astonishment. "Do you know them?" "Oh, quite well!"
Douglas came up to town in the absence of his family, he put up at his own very expensive club, and the servants in Portman Square were not troubled with him. But they, like every one else, knew that something was going wrong with the Fallodens. Falloden walked into the deserted and dust-sheeted house, while the cabman brought in his portmanteau. "Is Mr. Gregory here?" he enquired of the maid.
Whereupon it was explained to Connie that a Mr. Latimer, rector of the Fallodens' family living of Flood Magna, had just been paying a long visit to the two ladies. He was a distant cousin and old crony of theirs, and it was not long before they had persuaded him to pour out all he knew about the Falloden affairs.
It was, of course, extremely inconsiderate of his mother to be coming at all in these critical weeks before the schools. She ought to have kept away. And yet he would be very glad to see her and Nelly. He was fond of his home people, and they of him. They were his belongings and they were Fallodens. Therefore his strong family pride accepted them, and made the most of them.
But there are a few and quite possible. There are the Kenbarrows, about four miles off a large family nouveaux riches the father made buttons, or something of the kind. But the children are all most presentable, and enormously rich. And, of course, there are the Fallodens quite near Mr. and Lady Laura, Douglas, the eldest son, a girl of seventeen, and two children.
"Well, they won't starve," said Aunt Winifred, with a sniff, applying for another piece of tea-cake. "It's no good, Marcia, your trying to stir us up. The Fallodens are not beloved. Nobody will break their hearts except of course we shall all be sorry for Lady Laura and the children. And it will be horrid to have new people at Flood."
But his countenance fell when, as the train slowed into the railway station, he perceived beckoning to him from the windows, not two Fallodens, but four! "What has mother been about?" He stood aghast. For there were not only Lady Laura and Nelly, but Trix, a child of eleven, and Roger, the Winchester boy of fourteen, who was still at home after an attack of measles.
Fallodens always best it!" Marcia with the air of one defending the institutions of her country "Shooting and hunting have to be kept up, Winifred, for the sake of the physique of our class; and it's the physique of our class that maintains the Empire. What do a few fields of corn matter compared with that! And what young man could have done a more touching a more heroic thing than "
When we first got to Yorkshire, Sorell and I, and I knew that Falloden was only a few miles away, I never could get quit of it of the thought that some day somewhere I should kill him. I never, if I could help it, crossed a certain boundary line that I had made for myself, between our side of the moor, and the side which belonged to the Fallodens.
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