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The only stimulus that worked and that only for a time was a fierce attack on Glenwilliam in one of the morning papers. She read it hungrily; but it brought on acute headache, which reduced her to idleness and closed eyes.
The agent accepted the implied reproach with outward meekness, and an inward resolve to put Lady Coryston on a much stricter financial regime for the future. A long conversation followed, at the end of which Mr. Glenwilliam is to speak at Martover next month, and that it is already rumored Lord Coryston will be in the chair."
Woman as she was, she would fight revolution to the last; they should find her body by the wall, when and if the fortress of the old English life went down. Glenwilliam! in that name all her hatreds were summed up.
Marion Atherstone shook her head over it, in spite of the humorous account of the defeat of Lady Coryston which her father had given to the Chancellor, at their little dinner of the night before; and those deep laughs which had shaken the ample girth of Glenwilliam. ... Ah! the blind was going up. Marion had her eyes on a particular window in the little house to her right.
I say!" He spoke, smiling, in Marcia's ear. "Your brother Arthur's in very bad company! Do you see where he is? Look at the box opposite." Marcia raised her opera-glass, and saw Enid Glenwilliam sitting in front of the box to which Sir Wilfrid pointed her. The Chancellor's daughter was bending her white neck back to talk to a man behind her, who was clearly Arthur Coryston.
And all the time all the time the handsome, repellent creature was holding Arthur's life and Arthur's career in the hollow of her hand! Well, she would not hold them so for long. Lady Coryston said to herself that she perfectly understood what Miss Glenwilliam was after.
Who gave you leave?" He flung the questions at her. "I had every right," said Lady Coryston, calmly. "I am your mother I have done everything for you you owe your whole position to me. You were ruining yourself by a mad fancy. I was bound to take care that Miss Glenwilliam should not accept you without knowing all the facts. But actually as it happens she had made up her mind before we met."
Under the sting of it, however, she found a first natural and moving word, as she slowly rose from her seat. "You love your father, Miss Glenwilliam. You might remember that I, too, love my son and there was never a rough word between us till he knew you." She wavered a little, gathering up her dress.
"Oh, any lies you like," said Coryston, placidly. "But as I've already warned you, it won't help you long." "One gains a bit of time," said the young lover, in a tone of depression. "What's the good of it? In a year's time Glenwilliam will still be Glenwilliam and mother mother. Of course you know you'll break her heart and that kind of thing. Marcia made me promise to put that before you.
Yet, if you saw them together, you'd see Glenwilliam patronizing and browbeating him, and Betts not allowed a look in. I'm sick of it! I'm off to Canada with Betts." Marion looked up. "I thought it was to be the Primrose League." "You like catching me out," said Coryston, grimly. "But I assure you I'm pretty downhearted."
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