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"Ah!" said Mrs Fotheringham, "it's a bad thing to be poor." Iris looked up quickly. Those were the very words she had said to herself when she first arrived at Paradise Court. It seemed almost that her godmother must have overheard them, and yet that was quite impossible. A bad thing to be poor! Somehow Iris felt now that there might be worse things than want of money.
Fotheringham could be in no real haste to be gone, and had only hurried away to avoid Theodora. However, there was no more musing time, the children's dinner was ready, and she was going down with the little girls, when her father entered. 'How is Arthur? It was answered by Johnnie, who was flying down-stairs with joyous though noiseless bounds, his whole person radiant with good tidings.
Wingfield were but Percy Fotheringham he who fears no man, and can manage any one! Oh! if I could go myself; he heeds me when he heeds no one else. Shall I go? Why not? It would save him; it would be the only effectual way. Let me see. I would take Simmonds and Pauline. But then I must explain to my aunt. Stuff! there are real interests at stake!
Fotheringham tried to exercise a control over my actions to which I could not submit; and in especial was affronted by my going to Epsom with Arthur, instead of staying at home for the chance of seeing Lady Fotheringham. We came to high words, perceived the error of thinking our tempers accorded, and agreed to part.
'You are quite worried and tired. Oh! it has made you cough! You had better lie down and rest. 'I want you to put me into good humour, said he, half reclining on the sofa. 'I feel as if I had been under a nutmeg-grater! What do you think of her taking me to task for having Fotheringham here, for fear he should marry Theodora!
"You here, too," he exclaimed. "Looks like it, don't it," said Haight, with a grim smile. "You may as well own up, Fred," said Weaver, "they have the drop on us." "Coward!" hissed Wittrock. Then turning suddenly to Mr. Pinkerton, he said: "That cur is right, you have the drop on us." "Then you confess you committed the robbery?" "Yes," he answered, curtly. "Was Fotheringham in the ring, too?"
'It may be only my foolish fancy but I cannot get it out of my mind. You see I have no one to talk over things with now you are gone. I have lost my pair in you, so I am solitary among them, and perhaps that has made me think of it the more. 'Dearest! But still I think you ought to try to draw away your mind from it. 'You do not think I ought to try to like Mr. Fotheringham?
Violet knew she had made a most tangled speech, and that there was great danger that her trembling sorrowful voice should convey to Lady Fotheringham an impression that there was something amiss; but she could only try to make the intelligence as little mortifying as possible. The fact was enough.
While I do not think he is one, he may be; at any rate it will lead the principals in the case to believe we are on the wrong track, but I must confess there don't seem to be any track at all, wrong or right." "I will do that. I will swear out a warrant to-day against him." Mr. Damsel took his leave, and that night Fotheringham slept behind iron bars. After Mr. Damsel had left the hotel, Mr.
That thought came like the stroke of a knife, and she stood motionless and stunned. Love of Percival Fotheringham was a part of herself! Certain from her confidence in Violet that Jane's news was untrue, the only effect of hearing it was to reveal to her like a flash that her whole heart was his. He had loved her in spite of her faults. Suppose he should do so still!
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