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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Then of course you would have no objection to my visiting a duchess in the small-pox?" Lord Gartley was on the point of saying that duchesses never took the smallpox, but he did not, afraid Hester might know to the contrary. "There could be no occasion for that," he said. "She would have everything she could want." "And the others are in lack of everything!
"What I do doubt is, that you have had any experience of the sort necessary to set things right between lord Gartley and myself. The fact is, for I will be perfectly open with you, that I saw then for the first time plainly, that to marry him would be to lose my liberty." "Not more, my dear, than every woman does who marries at all.
Widow Anne in a few weeks had quite a large business, considering the size of the village, and philosophically observed to a neighbor that "It was an ill wind which blew no one any good," adding also that Sidney was more good to her dead than alive. But even in Gartley the villagers grew weary of discussing a mystery which could never be solved, and so the case became rarely talked about.
I shall have to leave Gartley as poor as when I came, and there will be nothing left but the old nightmare life of despair and horror. I am getting older every day, and this is my last chance of getting married. I must force the Professor to have a speedy marriage. I must! I must!" and she began to pace the tiny room in a frenzy of terror and well-founded alarm.
One afternoon the post brought side by side with a letter from lord Gartley, one in a strange-looking cramped hand, which Mrs. Raymount recognized. "What can Sarah be writing about?" she said, a sudden foreboding of evil crossing her mind. "The water-rate perhaps," answered Hester, opening her own letter as she withdrew to read it.
It was not late, and soldiers were still returning through Gartley to the Fort. Then, again, some noise must have been caused by so bulky an object being thrust through the narrow wicket, and Mrs. Jasher, inhabiting a wooden house, which was a very sea-shell for sound, might have heard footsteps and voices.
Neither did the father care much for lord Gartley, though he had liked him; the major, we know, both despised and detested him. Hester herself was annoyed to find how soon the idea of his lordship came to be altogether a thing of her past, looking there in its natural place, a thing to trouble her no more.
Gartley mistook it, and supposed her at length betraying the weakness hitherto so successfully concealed. He concluded he had only to be firm now to render future discussion of the matter unnecessary. "I would not for a moment act the tyrant, or say you must never go into such houses again.
He wired to me that he was coming to England at once, as as I told you. He will be in Gartley in a couple of days. That is the whole story." "It is a sufficiently strange one," grumbled Braddock, frowning. "What does he want with my mummy?" "I cannot tell you. But if you will sell " "Sell! sell! sell!" vociferated Braddock furiously. "Don Pedro will give you a good price," finished Random calmly.
Whether he had got over his fright, or thought the danger now less imminent, or was vexed that he had appeared to be afraid, I do not know. Hester was very glad to see him again. "I think I am a safe companion to-day," she said. "I have not been out of the house yet. But till the bad time is over among my people, we had better be content not to meet, I think." Lord Gartley mentally gasped.
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