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At the farther end of Green Street, near to Park Lane, lived Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smith. Dr. Thorne When Miss Dunstable met her friends the Greshams young Frank Gresham and his wife at Gatherum Castle, she immediately asked after one Dr. Thorne, who was Mrs. Gresham's uncle. Dr. Thorne was an old bachelor, in whom both as a man and a doctor Miss Dunstable was inclined to place much confidence.
"No, not so, Patience; there is always some little sting of disgrace in punishment: now I am not going to hold myself in the least disgraced." "But, Mary, you must meet the Greshams sometimes." "Meet them! I have not the slightest objection on earth to meet all, or any of them. They are not a whit dangerous to me, my dear.
It suited her better that it should be known, far and wide, that a nameless pauper Lady Arabella only surmised that her foe was nameless; but she did not scruple to declare it was intriguing to catch the heir of Greshamsbury. None of the Greshams must meet Mary Thorne; that was the edict sent about the country; and the edict was well understood. Those, therefore, were bad days for Miss Thorne.
What she had then said was now repaid to her with interest; for not only had she been the maker of Augusta's match, but she had boasted of the deed with all a mother's pride. It was from Beatrice that Frank had obtained his tidings. This last resolve on the part of Mr Moffat had not altogether been unsuspected by some of the Greshams, though altogether unsuspected by the Lady Arabella.
To cover this and some other little outstanding trifles, I have filled in the new bill for £500, making it due 23rd of May next. Before that time, a certain accident will, I trust, have occurred to your impoverished friend. By the by, I never told you how she went off from Gatherum Castle, the morning after you left us, with the Greshams.
She now pushed it further, and said that no time should be lost; that he should not only marry money, but do so very early in life; there was always danger in delay. The Greshams of course she alluded only to the males of the family were foolishly soft-hearted; no one could say what might happen. There was that Miss Thorne always at Greshamsbury. This was more than the Lady Arabella could stand.
It was almost impossible, it was incredible, that a fatherless, motherless, doctor's niece should be pert to an earl's daughter at Greshamsbury, seeing that that earl's daughter was the cousin of the Miss Greshams. And yet the Lady Alexandrina hardly knew what other construction to put on the words she had just heard.
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