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Mr. discovered this fact in an old memoir of the ancient and once famous family to which the young knight Albert belonged, and which came, alas! to so shameful an end, the Fletwodes, Barons of Fletwode and Malpas. What a triumph over pretty Lily Mordaunt, who always chose to imagine that the tomb must be that of some heroine of her own romantic invention!
Owner after owner said to admiring guests, 'Yes, a fine portrait, by Lely; she was my ancestress, a Fletwode of Fletwode. Now, lest guests should remember that a Fletwode married a Travers thou art thrust out of sight; not even Lely's art can make thee of value, can redeem thine innocent self from disgrace.
How ends it all! Could I sit but for twelve hours in the innermost heart of that Alfred Fletwode; could I see how, step by step from his childhood, the dishonest son was avariciously led on by the honest father to depart from the old vestigia of Fletwodes of Fletwode, scorning The Enough to covet The More, gaining The More to sigh, 'It is not The Enough, I think I might show that the age lives in a house of glass, and had better not for its own sake throw stones on the felon!"
Up to that time he had retained popularity and esteem in the county; but the squires who shared in the adventures of the mining company, and knew little or nothing about other speculations in which his name did not appear, professed to be shocked at the idea of a Fletwode of Fletwode being ostensibly joined in partnership with a Jones of Clapham in a London bank."
Campion says that she saw in a newspaper the announcement of old Mr. Fletwode's death, and a paragraph to the effect that after that event Miss Fletwode had sailed from Liverpool to New York." "Alfred Fletwode's wife went back, of course, to her family?" "Alas! no, poor thing!
Do come to dinner; Mr. is a most agreeable man, and full of interesting anecdotes." "I am so sorry I cannot. I am obliged to return home at once for a few days. That old family of Fletwode! I think I see before me, while we speak, the gray tower in which they once held sway; and the last of the race following Mammon along the Progress of the Age, a convicted felon!
Fletwode had been afflicted with partial paralysis, and his medical attendant enjoined rigid abstention from business. From that time he never interfered with his son's management of the bank. He had an only daughter, much younger than Alfred. Lord Eagleton, my mother's brother, was engaged to be married to her.
They dwelt in a house near to it, built about Elizabeth's time, which you could not see, for it lies in a hollow behind the tower, a moderate-sized, picturesque, country gentleman's house. Our family intermarried with them, the portrait you saw was a daughter of their house, and very proud was any squire in the county of intermarriage with the Fletwodes." "Fletwode, that was their name?
"Slow folks, those country squires, behind the progress of the age. Well?" "I have heard that Bertram Fletwode was himself very reluctant to take this step, but was persuaded to do so by his son.
His father, at his desire, had bought up the whole business, Mr. Jones having died. The bank was carried on in the names of Fletwode and Son. But the father had become merely a nominal or what I believe is called a 'sleeping' partner. He had long ceased to reside in the county. The old house was not grand enough for him.
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