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No one else would have done it, either lord or Post Office clerk; with a hired horse or with private property. There was a hot July sunshine, and the roads across from Hendon Hall consisted chiefly of paved streets. But Lord Hampstead always did things as others would not do them. It was too far to walk in the midday sun, and therefore he rode. There would be no servant at Mrs.
If I were a Noah and wanted to get a fair selection of people in London to be saved to start a new world, I would go out and look over the crowd who are watching the flying machines at Hendon, and select from them. The Hendon crowd will not last forever.
The garniture of Hendon Hall had always been simple, and now had assumed less even of aristocratic finery than it used to show when prepared for the use of the Marchioness. "I'm glad you've come in time," said he, "because you can get comfortably warm before dinner." Then he fluttered about round Mrs.
"Let your eyes rest upon mine, so that I may see if they be steady. There now answer me. Am I Miles Hendon?" "No. I know you not." "Swear it!" The answer was low, but distinct "I swear." "Oh, this passes belief!" "Fly! Why will you waste the precious time? Fly, and save yourself."
Stuck-up young men like him had better stay away from Alexandrina Cottage," that was the name of the happy home at Hendon. "I'm sure our Polly won't be the better for having the likes of him here." Nothing more was said on the subject till after the return of the family from church; but, during the sermon Mr.
He fretted and fumed, and would have stopped Hampstead had it been possible; but Hampstead was irrepressible when he had become warm on his own themes, and his father knew that he must listen on to the bitter end. "I won't have her go to Hendon at all," he said, when his son had finished. "Then you will understand little of her nature, or of mine. Roden will not come near her there.
The victim of this outburst thought that the little detective had gone mad, though the reference to Hendon Road had startled him, and a scared expression had come into his eyes. "Look here " he began, but Furneaux checked him again instantly. "I've looked at you long enough to sum you up as a sulky puppy," he said.
She had declared to her brother that she was bound by no promise as to seeing or not seeing her lover, but yet she was aware how much she owed to him, and that, though she had not promised, he had made a promise on her behalf, to her father. But for that promise she would never have been allowed to be at Hendon Hall.
An unfortunate Sybarite Marchioness ought to have her rose leaves. Now I am not a rose leaf." And so he had stayed away. But the argument had been carried on between the friends, and the noble heir had at last prevailed. George Roden was not a rose leaf, but he was found at Hendon to have flowers of beautiful hues and with a sweet scent.
About ten o'clock the judge, who had entered his cabinet by a back door, was interrupted in his examination of the documents, previous to interrogating the witnesses, by the officer Hendon, who demanded leave to make an important communication.
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