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The mother, a woman of the world, enjoying a high social position, and nearly related to a connection of ours, Lady Glenalvon." "Lady Glenalvon, the dearest of my lady friends! You are connected with her?" "Yes; Lord Glenalvon was my mother's uncle. But I wish to finish my story before my father joins us. Alfred Fletwode did not marry till long after the partnership in the bank.
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!
The wedding-day was fixed, when the world was startled by the news that the great firm of Fletwode and Son had stopped payment; is that the right phrase?" "I believe so." "A great many people were ruined in that failure. The public indignation was very great. Of course all the Fletwode property went to the creditors. Old Mr.
Now you can understand why my father, who is almost gratuitously sensitive on the point of honour, removed into a dark corner the portrait of Arabella Fletwode, his own ancestress, but also the ancestress of a convicted felon: you can understand why the whole subject is so painful to him.
Still, all ambition, all desire to rise, is interesting to him who is ignominiously contented if he does not fall. So the son had his way, and Fletwode joined company with Jones on the road to wealth and the peerage; meanwhile did the son marry? if so, of course the daughter of a duke or a millionnaire. Tuft-hunting, or money-making, at the risk of degradation and the workhouse.
Still, all ambition, all desire to rise, is interesting to him who is ignominiously contented if he does not fall. So the son had his way, and Fletwode joined company with Jones on the road to wealth and the peerage; meanwhile did the son marry? if so, of course the daughter of a duke or a millionnaire. Tuft-hunting, or money-making, at the risk of degradation and the workhouse.
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."
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?
Her father, too, was a great sufferer by the bankruptcy, having by his son-in-law's advice placed a considerable portion of his moderate fortune in Alfred's hands for investment, all of which was involved in the general wreck. I am afraid he was a very hard-hearted man: at all events his poor daughter never returned to him. She died, I think, even before the death of Bertram Fletwode.
"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.
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