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To her of course was told the story of the heir's marriage, and she knew that she could expect no light, no joy in the old house from the scions of the rising family. But now all this was changed, and it might be that she could take the new heir to her heart. When Fred Neville first came to the Manor, the old Earl trembled when called upon to receive him.
Remember that Cosmo Mornington's will explicitly states that no heir's claim will be valid unless he is present at to-day's meeting." "And suppose he does not come?" asked the Prefect, thus showing that Don Luis's conviction had gradually got the better of his doubts. "He will come, Monsieur le Préfet. If not, there would have been no sense in all this business.
I don't know if you are like that, but every other Englishman I've ever met seems to have an ambition to own a house and lot in Loamshire or Hants or Salop or somewhere. Their one object in life is to make some money and "buy back the old place" which was sold, of course, at the end of act one to pay the heir's gambling debts. Mr.
The old Squire would have nothing to do with his heir, in which resolution he was strengthened by the tidings which reached him of his heir's manner of living.
"Exactly; but, waiter, allow me at least to kiss your hand." "I have no time," said she, laughing, sticking the corkscrew into the neck of the bottle. Do you see the two little Bohemian glasses which I bought expressly for this evening? We will drink each other's health in them." "And his, too, eh?" "The heir's, poor dear love of an heir! I should think so.
He believed as for miles around every man not a lawyer believed that freehold land which had once descended to an heir could not be alienated without the next heir's consent: nor in all the countryside had such a wrong been perpetrated within living memory. It would have taken twenty lawyers with their books to shake him in this conviction.
A character apart, incomprehensible alike to the warm-blooded Frenchmen with whom he associated and to his own passionate countrymen, he maintained his peculiarity tranquilly, undisturbed by the banter of his friends and the admonitions of his father, who in view of his heir's childlessness regarded his younger son's temperament with growing uneasiness as the years advanced.
"Well," said Ned, "the whole thing is no business of mine, but Sir Reginald had pretty big ideas in some ways and probably one of them was connected with his heir's marriage." "A clandestine engagement then?" Ned Cromarty seemed to dislike the term. "It's none of my business," he said shortly. "There was no blame on anyone, anyhow; and mind you, this is absolutely confidential."
One frosty but sunny afternoon, as he was inspecting his coming domain from "The Heir's Tower," he saw the Hall door open, and a muffled figure come slowly down the steps between two women: It was Sir Charles, feeble but convalescent. He crept about on the sunny gravel for about ten minutes, and then his nurses conveyed him tenderly in again.
Yet he understood his grandfather's wish to present his heir's promised bride in this public ceremonious way to the society of which she would some day be the natural leader.
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