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And when the surgeon had got to a distance with his quick step, Lord Hartledon turned back to the Rectory. It was a mild day in spring. The air was balmy, but the skies were grey and lowering; and as a gentleman strolled across a field adjoining Hartledon Park he looked up at them more than once, as if asking whether they threatened rain.
He had thought I was acting this bad part deliberately; and he went off at once to Hartledon in anger; found I had gone abroad; and now came to me on my return, still in anger, saying at first that he should proceed against me, and obtain justice for Agnes. When he found how utterly ignorant of wrong I had been, his tone changed; he was truly grieved and concerned for me.
She had sent for this son of hers, hoping he might be a decoy-duck to draw Hartledon home again, for she was losing heart; and the accident, which she had not bargained for, was a very god-send to her. "Why don't you word your telegrams more clearly, Hedges?" asked Lord Hartledon of his butler. "It wasn't me worded it at all, my lord. Lady Kirton went to the station herself.
There ensued a little mutual misapprehension, followed by a few emphatic words of denial from Dr. Ashton; and the countess-dowager walked away with a scarlet face, and an explosion of anger against her daughter. Lady Hartledon was not yet callous to the proprieties of life; and the intrusion on the Ashtons, which her mother confessed to, half frightened, half shamed her.
He must allude to debt, she supposed: some of those old embarrassments had augmented themselves into burdens too heavy to be safely borne. The Rector was coming on now at a swift pace. He looked keenly at Lord Hartledon; looked twice, as if in surprise. A flush rose to Val's sensitive face as he passed, and lifted his hat.
I left compassion, whether for you or others, out of the argument; and said to him, what will you gain by exposure, and how will you reconcile it to your conscience to inflict on innocent persons the torture exposure must bring?" "I shall breathe freely now," said Hartledon, with a sigh of relief."
They belonged to Lady Hartledon; sometimes she drove only one; and the groom, a young lad of fourteen, light and slim, rode the other: sometimes both ponies were in the carriage; and on those occasions the boy sat by her side, and drove. "What's the matter, Edward?" called out Lord Hartledon to his son. "Young lordship wants to ride the pony, my lord," said the groom.
"It's very strange," said Lord Hartledon. "At times it has occurred to me that she has something on her mind," continued Sir Alexander. "Upon my delicately hinting this opinion to Lady Hartledon, she denied it with a vehemence which caused me to suspect that I was correct. Does your lordship know of anything likely to to torment her?" "Not anything," replied Lord Hartledon, confidently.
Considering that Maude did not profess to love her husband very much, it was astonishing how keenly she felt this. "Are you and Hartledon upon good terms?" asked the countess-dowager after a pause, during which she had never taken her eyes from her daughter's face. "It would be early days to be on any other." "Oh," said the dowager.
"To hear you talk, Hartledon, one might have supposed you cared for the girl yourself," cried Lady Kirton; but her brow was smooth again, and her tone soft as honey. "You should be more cautious." "Cautious! Why so? I love and respect Anne beyond any girl on earth.
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