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Thus we talked of things that had been and of things that were to be, making many plans for the future, a future which, by reason of youth and love, stretched before each one of us in radiant perspective. So we talked and laughed, finding joy in all things, more especially in each other and were all a little sorry, I think, when the ambling Diogenes brought us to Hadlow at last.
He sleeps so well at Hadlow and you know in town he sleeps very ill indeed and so we don't dream of complaining. We're only too glad for his sake." "And Balder," commented the sister, "he's as bad the other way. He gets up at some unearthly hour, and has his tea and a sandwich from the still-room, and goes off with his rod or his gun or the dogs, and we never see him till luncheon."
If I have money at my back at once everything is different with me. People will remember then promptly enough that I am a Hadlow, as well as a Plowden. I will make the party whips remember it, too. It won't be a Secretary's billet in India at four hundred a year that they'll offer me, but a Governorship at six thousand that is, if I wish to leave England at all.
In the third house, through the glass-door, he could see a man evidently a gardener lifting some pots to a shelf overhead. The thought occurred to him that by entering into conversation with this man, he might indirectly obtain a hint as to the usual breakfast-hour at Hadlow. It was now nearly ten o'clock, and he was getting very hungry.
I know what it was that he wrote to Gafferson, I couldn't understand it when he first told me, but afterwards I saw through it, and it was merely a maudlin misapprehension of his. He'd got three or four things all mixed up together. You've never met your friend Tavender, I believe? You'd enjoy him at Hadlow House. He smells of rum a hundred yards off.
It was her father's place; it has been in their family for hundreds of years. Her father, I daresay you know, was the last Earl of Hever. The title died with him. He left three daughters, who inherited his estates, and my mother, being the eldest, got the Kentish properties. Of course Hadlow House will come to me eventually, but it is hers during her lifetime.
She do be well, sir, I 'ope, an' comin' home to the great house soon, Mr. Anthony?" "Thank you, yes, Mary," answered Anthony, baring his head and giving her his hand, "we shall be coming home next week. And here, George and Mary, is my friend Mr. Vereker. His horse has cast a shoe, send it to Joe at Hadlow to be shod. Meanwhile we will drink a flagon of your October."
It spoke of antiquity, no doubt, but it was a dismal and graceless antiquity of narrow purposes and niggling thrift. It was so little like the antiquity, for example, of Hadlow House, that the two might have computed their age by the chronological systems of different planets.
"God's love, man, I'd promise you anything to-night! And now laugh, man, laugh oh, dammit!" Here he choked and was silent awhile. "Where are you taking me, Anthony? I cannot return to the 'Soaring Lark." "Of course not. You're coming with me to 'The Bear' at Hadlow. I have a room there.
The whimsical theory that the wine at dinner had given him a spurious courage occurred to him. He shrugged his shoulders at it, and, with his hands in his pockets, turned toward the stables. The stable-yard is, from some points of view, the prettiest thing about Hadlow.
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