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Holmcroft and my lady." I can't say exactly what it was; I hadn't time to hear. And I didn't listen, miss; the door was ajar; and the voices were so loud nobody could help hearing them." It was useless to detain the woman any longer. Having given her leave to withdraw, Mercy turned to Julian. "Why were they quarreling about you?" she asked. Julian pointed to the unopened letter in her hand.
Holmcroft, how can you, with your sound judgment, place the sad alternatives now before him on the same level? To die in Green Anchor Fields, or to fall into the clutches of that vile wretch is there any comparison between the two? Better a thousand times die at the post of duty than marry Mercy Merrick.
She will believe me. She will burn their letters if they write. She will forbid the house to them if they come. I shall be Mrs. Horace Holmcroft in a week's time. Who can shake my position? Who can injure Me?" "Wait a little. You forget the matron at the Refuge." "Find her, if you can. I never told you her name. I never told you where the Refuge was."
You shall not be kept waiting longer than I can help. In the meanwhile everything will go on as usual. My nephew Julian, and Horace Holmcroft, and the lady whom I found in the dining-room, will, by my desire, remain in the house until I am able to meet them, and to meet you, again." There the note ended. To what conclusion did it point?
I feel already united by sympathy to your mother and your sisters. There is a sort of freemasonry among gentlewomen, is there not? With best thanks and remembrances, and many delightful anticipations of your next letter, believe me, dear Mr. Holmcroft, "Truly yours, From MR. HORACE HOLMCROFT to MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY. "MY DEAR MISS ROSEBERRY Pray excuse my long silence.
Only a lost woman like myself. My landlady's evidence in favor of my honesty produced no effect; it was against her that she let lodgings to people in my position. I was prosecuted, and found guilty. The tale of my disgrace is now complete, Mr. Holmcroft. No matter whether I was innocent or not, the shame of it remains I have been imprisoned for theft.
But I never went near my father: child as I was, I would have starved and died rather than go to him. I had loved my mother dearly; and I hated the man who had turned his back on her when she lay on her deathbed. It made no difference to Me that he happened to be my father. "Does this confession revolt you? You look at me, Mr. Holmcroft, as if it did. "Think a little, sir.
Julian entered the dining-room. From MR. HORACE HOLMCROFT to MISS GRACE ROSEBERRY. "I HASTEN to thank you, dear Miss Roseberry, for your last kind letter, received by yesterday's mail from Canada. Believe me, I appreciate your generous readiness to pardon and forget what I so rudely said to you at a time when the arts of an adventuress had blinded me to the truth.
I take it you are trying to make me believe that compromising things are said about Mr. Holmcroft and me at the Club. Well, I advise you to keep your ears open a little more, and listen to the things said about you and Madeline Anderson there. But I don't suppose you would be in such a hurry to repeat them to HER. Innes turned very white, and the rigidity of his face gave place to heavy dismay.
'Oh, I say, Holmcroft, this is too much luck, you know. Regular sweepstakes, by Jove! And Captain Drake lingered on the fringe of the situation. 'Perhaps I have been greedy, said the Assistant Secretary, deprecatingly. 'I'll 'Not in the very least! That is, exclaimed Mrs. Violet, pouting, 'if I'M to be considered.
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