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But William Ashe threw himself into conversation with Lady Edith Manley, and was presently, to all appearance, happily plunged in gossip, his tall person wholly at ease in a deep arm-chair, while Lady Edith bent over him with smiles. Meanwhile there was a certain desertion of Kitty on the part of the ladies. Lady Grosville hardly spoke to her, and the girls markedly avoided her.
The Dean was beside her, but she scarcely spoke to him, and as to the young man from the neighborhood who had taken her in, he was to her as though he were not. "Has there been a row?" Ashe inquired, in a low voice, of his companion. Mary looked at him quietly. "Lord Grosville asked them not to play because of the servants." "Good!" said Ashe.
I saw them in the early days at Grosville Park. She played her cards very cleverly. And then, it was just the right moment. Lady Tranmore had been urging him to marry." "Well, of course," said Lady Parham, "there's no denying the beauty." "You think so?" said Mary, as though in wonder. "Well, I never could see it. And now she has so much gone off." "I don't agree with you.
But before he had made up his mind what to do a lady began to ascend the steps which connected the upper terrace with the lower. She came straight towards him, and Ashe looked at her with astonishment. She was not a member of the Grosville house party, and Ashe had never seen her before.
The Dean smiled to himself as he crossed the room to Lady Grosville, and endeavored by an impartial criticism of the new curate's manner and voice, as they had revealed themselves in church that morning, to distract her attention from her niece. A hopeless task for Kitty's personality was of the kind which absorbs, engulfs attention, do what the by-stander will.
It was said he was on the look-out for a post Ashe, indeed, happened to know it officially; and Lord Grosville had a good deal of influence. Moreover, failing an appointment, he was understood to be aiming at Parliament and office; and there were two safe county-seats within the Grosville sphere. "Yet even when he wants a thing he can't behave himself in order to get it," thought Ashe.
"Ah! by his first marriage? I knew it was something about the step-daughter," said Ashe, vaguely. Darrell began to repeat his conversation with Lady Grosville. The tale threatened presently to become a black one indeed; and at last Ashe stood still in the broad walk crossing the Green Park. "Look here," he said, resolutely, "don't tell me any more. I don't want to hear any more."
"Kitty!" said Lady Grosville, advancing indignantly, "what a dreadful noise! Pray give the dog to Parkin at once." Lady Kitty only held the struggling animal tighter. "Please, Aunt Lina! I'm afraid he'll bite! But he'll be quite good with me." "Why did you bring him, Kitty? We can't have such a creature at dinner!" said Lady Grosville, angrily. Lord Grosville advanced behind his wife.
"At any rate, I see clearly," said Lady Grosville, after another pause, "that you're very sorry for Kitty. Of course, it's very nice of you, and I find it's what most people feel." "Hang it! dear Lady Grosville, why shouldn't they?" said Ashe, turning round on his chair. "If ever there was a forlorn little person on earth, I thought Lady Kitty was that person at lunch to-day."
She had propitiated the family on both sides; she had brought Kitty to stay with her, and had advised on the negotiations which banished Madame d'Estrées from London and the British Isles, in return for a handsome allowance and the payment of her debts; and, finally, she had with difficulty allowed the Grosvilles to provide the trousseau and arrange the marriage from Grosville Park, so eager had she grown in her accepted task.
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