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Updated: September 18, 2025
Among the first morning visitors admitted were Lady Castlefort and Lady Katrine Hawksby.
Lady Davenant rose from her seat with an air of preparation, and somewhat of solemnity. All eyes were instantly upon her. She drew out a locket, which she held up to public view; then, turning to Lady Katrine Hawksby, she said "This bauble has been much talked of, I understand, by your ladyship, but I question whether you have ever yet seen it, or know the truth concerning it.
"Right, Lady Katrine Hawksby," cried a voice from afar, which made her start; "you are quite right to consider Helen Stanley as my daughter's double, for my daughter loves and esteems her as her second self her better self. In this sense Helen is Lady Cecilia's double, but if you mean " "Bless me! I don't know what I meant, I declare.
"I have a notion we shall find some here," replied he, "if you will come on this way in this sanctum sanctorum of Lady Katrine's." He led them on to a little inner apartment, where, as he said, Lady Katrine Hawksby and her set do always scandal take, and sometimes tea.
Perkins COULD not turn any redder than he was, but confessed with deep humiliation that "he HAD consulted Mr. Scully among other friends." Mr. Crampton smiled drew a letter from a heap before him, and tearing off the signature, handed over the document to his nephew. It contained the following paragraphs: "Hawksby has sounded Scully: we can have him any day we want him.
"Well, well, my dear," cried Lady Cecilia, no longer capable of patience; "do not be miserable any more just now; never mind Katrine just now." "Never mind her! Easy for you to say, Cecilia, who do not live with Katrine Hawksby, and do not know what it is to have such a plague of a sister, watching one, watching every turn, every look one gives worse than a jealous husband. Can I say more?"
He desired that the marriage should be public, that all should be bidden of rank, fashion, and note all their family connections. Lady Katrine Hawksby, he especially named. To do justice to Helen seemed the only pleasurable object now remaining to him.
Stone received it, bowed obsequiously, and assured the general that every copy of the offensive chapter had been withdrawn from the book and burnt "that copy excepted which you have yourself, general, and that which was sent to Lady Katrine Hawksby, which we expect in every minute, and it shall he sent to Grosvenor Square immediately. I will bring it myself, to prevent all danger."
Then leaned forward, stretching her scraggy neck, one who had good reason to believe that the husband would soon speak out the public would soon hear of a separation: and everybody must be satisfied that there could not be a separation without good grounds. Miss Clarendon inquired from a gentleman near them, who the lady was with the outstretched scraggy neck Lady Katrine Hawksby.
"So that was good, and Horace, in perfect good-humour with me and himself, and all the world, played on with the past and the future, glad he had no more of his bones to exfoliate; glad, after so many months of failure in 'the first intention, to find himself in a whole skin, and me safe returned from transportation spoke of Helen seriously; said that his conduct to her was the only thing that weighed upon his mind, but he hoped that his sincere penitence, and his months of suffering, would be considered as sufficient atonement for his having brought her name before the public; and he finished by inviting himself to our wedding, if it were only for the pleasure of seeing what sort of a face Lady Katrine Hawksby will have upon the occasion.
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