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Old Robert Graywell began life as the son of a small farmer. He was generally considered to be rather an eccentric man; but prospered, nevertheless, as a merchant in the city of London. When he retired from business, he possessed a house and estate in the country, and a handsome fortune safely invested in the Funds.
In the last extreme of poverty his luck provides him with somebody to cheat. Common respect for Mrs. Robert Graywell closed my lips; and I was the only person acquainted with the circumstances. I wrote to our club declaring the fellow to be a cheat and leaving it to be inferred that he cheated at cards. He knew better than to insist on my explaining myself he resigned, and disappeared.
"And to defray these and other expenses, the Trustees are authorized to place at your disposal one thousand a year." "Too much! too much!" Mr. Mool might have agreed with her if he had nor known that Robert Graywell had thought of his sister's interests, in making this excessive provision for expenses incurred on his daughter's account. "Perhaps, her dresses and her pocket money are included?"
"You must have seen something, in your time, of the ways of deceitful Englishwomen. What does that palaver mean in plain words?" She handed the letter to him. With some reluctance he read it. "Mrs. Gallilee declines to contract any engagement with the person formerly employed as nurse, in the household of the late Mr. Robert Graywell. Mrs.
In the first place, his refusal to qualify himself for a mercantile career had made it necessary to dispose of the business to strangers. In the second place, young Robert Graywell proved without any hereditary influence, and in the face of the strongest discouragement to be a born painter!
She took it from the desk at her side, and read it to him, in these words: "I humbly ask pardon of Mrs. Gallilee for the violent and unlawful acts of which I have been guilty. I acknowledge, and submit to, her authority as guardian of Miss Carmina Graywell. "Now," Mrs. Galilee concluded, "what do you say?" Speaking sincerely for once, Mr. Le Frank made a startling reply.
"An unanswerable objection, Doctor Benjulia!" "Perhaps it might be. I didn't think so myself. Two hours before, Mrs. Robert Graywell and I had met in the street. She had on a dress of a remarkable colour in those days a sort of sea-green. And a bonnet to match, which everybody stared at, because it was not half the size of the big bonnets then in fashion.
That well-meant experiment only left him feebler than ever. "What possessed her brother to make her Carmina's guardian?" he asked with the nearest approach to irritability of which he was capable. The lawyer was busy with his own thoughts. He only enlightened Mr. Gallilee after the question had been repeated. "I had the sincerest regard for Mr. Robert Graywell," he said.
Mool, such women so I am told are ducked in a pond. There is one thing more to add, before you read the confession. Mrs. Robert Graywell did imprudently send the man some money in answer to a begging letter artfully enough written to excite her pity. A second application was refused by her husband. What followed on that, you know already." Having read the confession, Mr.
"You are hot," the doctor remarked, and walked on again. "When I was in Italy " he paused to calculate, "when I was at Rome, fifteen years ago, your cousin was a wretched little rickety child. I said to Robert Graywell, 'Don't get too fond of that girl; she'll never live to grow up. He said something about taking her away to the mountain air.
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