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"I understand also," the Coroner resumed, "that Miss Fox-Wilton had left the family in Paris with whom you and Lady Fox-Wilton had placed her, some three weeks ago, and that you have since been in search of her, in company I believe with Miss Fox-Wilton's aunt, Miss Alice Puttenham. Miss Puttenham, I hope, will appear?" The doctor rose
Sarah was rarely known to do kind things; but as her woman friends were much more afraid of her than of Lulu, she was in general treated with much more consideration. Still it could not be said that Lady Fox-Wilton was to be regarded as blessed in either of her two elder daughters. And her sons were quite frankly a trouble to her.
She looked much older than seventeen, until she moved or spoke; then the spectator soon realized that in spite of her height and her precocious beauty she was a child, capable still of a child's mischief. And on mischief she was apparently bent this afternoon. Mary Elsmere, shyly amused, held aloof, while Meynell and Miss Fox-Wilton talked across the stream.
Almost nothing! The story indeed as a whole could be sharply and categorically denied, because it involved a fundamental falsehood. He was not the father of Hester Fox-Wilton. But simple denial was all that was open to him. He could neither explain, nor could he challenge inquiry. His mouth was shut. He had made no formal vow of secrecy to any one. He was free to confide in whom he would.
Then Edith Fox-Wilton would of course have the forwarding of her sister's correspondence, and might, it seemed to him, take the responsibility of intercepting whatever might inform or alarm her. Not much prospect of doing so indefinitely! that he plainly saw. But to gain time was an immense thing; to prevent her from taking at once Quixotic steps.
If you and Sarah will just let me be, I'll take Roddy for a stroll, and then after tea I'll tell you what I'll do." And, turning, she beckoned to a fine collie lazily sunning himself on the drawing-room steps, and he sprang up, gambolling about her. "Promise you won't meet that man!" said Lady Fox-Wilton, in agitation. "I believe he went up to Scotland to-day," said Hester, laughing.
That will in a special paragraph committed Hester Fox-Wilton to Richard Meynell's guardianship in remarkable terms; no provision whatever was made for the girl under Sir Ralph's will, and it is notorious that he treated her quite differently from his other children. From the moment also of the French journey, Sir Ralph's character and temper appeared to change.
Yet, when the time comes, Stephen shall have any chance, any help, I can give him unless indeed she has settled her destiny for herself by then, without any reference to us. And Stephen shall know what there is to know!" As to Hester herself, she seemed to have been keeping the Fox-Wilton household in perpetual fear.
But to do him justice Meryon knew nothing of those facts that gave such an intolerable significance to any contact whatever between his besmirched life and that of Hester Fox-Wilton. Meryon knew nothing and Stephen knew nothing nor the child herself. Meynell shared his knowledge with only two other persons no! three.
"Light as the flying seed-balls is their play The silly maids!" "Who see in mould the rose unfold, The soul through blood and tears." "I cannot get this skirt to hang as Lady Edith's did," said Sarah Fox-Wilton discontentedly. "Spend twenty guineas on it, my dear, as Lady Edith did on hers, and it'll be all right," said a mocking voice. Sarah frowned.
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