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Updated: May 24, 2025
The first had the address of a house in South Belgravia, where lived Sir Luke Tallant of the Colonial Office and Rosamond his wife distant connections of the Gavericks. Lady Bridget's letters were type-written, most carelessly, with the mistakes corrected down the margin of the flimsy sheets in the manner of author's proof the whole appearance of them suggesting literary 'copy'.
A long account followed of the bride's family connections, in which the biographer touched upon the accident of sex that had deprived her of the hereditary honours; the ancient descent of the Gavericks, with a picture of the old Irish castle where Lady Bridget had been brought up and so forth, and so forth.
'Biddy, I shall be sorry for Evelyn Mary if the Maules are to live in London and you go back there again which I suppose you will do. 'You needn't suppose for certain that I shall go back. She savoured her cigarette slowly. 'I can't go on with that old life, the sort of life one has to lead with Aunt Eliza and the Gavericks and their set.
Her thoughts went back to the old-world to the luxurious veneer covering the younger Gavericks' petty economies stealing the notepaper at country-houses for the sake of the address cadging for motors and dinners 'keeping in' with the people likely to be of use; pulling strings in a manner which Bridget knew would have been too utterly galling to Colin McKeith's self-respect.
I shouldn't wonder if she didn't leave her a penny. And, after all, it was her own fortune, and she has a horde of needy relatives. She will consider that she has done her duty to the Gavericks if she lets Chris have the Castle. When all's said and done, I don't see that it would be such a bad thing for Biddy to marry a rich Australian squatter. 'Colin McKeith is not rich. 'Oh, he will be.
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