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Updated: May 10, 2025
Many surmised that some tragic fact lay at the root of the tale, since those concerned had not chosen to bring the slanderer to account. But what had once been mere matter for malicious or idle curiosity was now handled with compunction and good feeling. People began to be very sorry for the Fox-Wiltons, very sorry for "poor Miss Puttenham."
"Well, darling, I shall watch your manoeuvres with interest," said Flaxman, rising and gathering up his letters "and, longo intervallo, I shall humbly do my best to assist them. Are Catherine and Mary coming?" "Mary certainly and, I think, Catharine. The Fox-Wiltons of course, and that mad creature Hester, who goes to Paris in a few days and Alice Puttenham.
She wrote to her people in Upcote she had been a widow for some years that she had accepted a nurse's situation in the States, and Sir Ralph saw her off from Genoa for New York. She seems to have married again in the States; and in the course of years to have developed some grievance against the Fox-Wiltons which ultimately determined her to come home.
"I hear the Fox-Wiltons and Miss Puttenham have all gone abroad," said the Bishop thoughtfully. "Poor things! I begin to see a glimmer. It seems to me that Meynell has been the repository of some story he feels he cannot honourably divulge.
At last the rows of new-built cottages attached to the colliery came in view on the left; to the right, a steep hillside heavily wooded, and at the top of it, in the distance, the glimmering of a large white house stately and separate dominating the village, the church, the collieries, and the Fox-Wiltons' plantations. The Rector threw a glance at it.
On the one hand his poverty his brothers to educate, his benefice to be saved. On the other, the natural desire of the Fox-Wiltons and of Alice Puttenham to conceal everything that had occurred. The sophistries of love would come in repentance the desire to make a fresh start to protect the woman he had sacrificed.
"And meanwhile I understand the other poor things are already driven away. They tell me the Fox-Wiltons' house is to let, and Miss Puttenham gone to Paris indefinitely." Barron slightly shrugged his shoulders. "We are all very sorry for them, my lord. It is indeed a sad business.
The accustomed eye knew them for the chimneys of the Fox-Wiltons' house, owned now, since the recent death of its master, Sir Ralph Fox-Wilton, by his widow, the sister of the lady with the cat and the embroidery, and mother of many children, for the most part an unattractive brood, peevish and slow-minded like their father.
I don't expect consideration from him, either as to that or other things. Has he been hanging round the Fox-Wiltons lately as usual?" Theresa looked troubled. "He told me something the other night, father, I ought to have told you. Only " "Only what? I am always kept in the dark between you." "Oh, no, father! but it seems to annoy you, when when I talk about Stephen, so I waited.
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