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Leave the room and the house this instant, before I send for a constable and have you taken away?" exclaimed Mrs. Brudenell, violently pulling at the bell-cord. "Mamma, she is insane, poor thing! do not be hard on her," said Lady Hurstmonceux gently; and then turning to poor Nora she answered, in the manner of one humoring a maniac: "Yes, my poor girl, I am the wife of Mr. Herman Brudenell.
"Show the gentlemen into this room," said Lady Hurstmonceux to the servant who had brought them. And in a few minutes the door was thrown open and "Judge Merlin and Mr. Worth" were announced. The countess arose to welcome her guests. But Claudia felt all her senses reel as the room seemed to turn around with her.
He wrote to the Countess of Hurstmonceux, requesting her to vacate the premises, and to his land-agent instructing him to let the estate. In due course of time he received answers to both his letters.
It mus' a been his sperrit!" said superstitious Katie, with the deepest awe. "Claudia, my dearest, what is the matter? What is all this? What has happened?" anxiously inquired the Countess of Hurstmonceux, as, hastily wrapped in her dressing-gown, she hurried into the chamber and up to Claudia's bedside. "Come closer, Berenice; stoop down; now listen!
Now, when he was so near Cameron Court and the Countess of Hurstmonceux, how ill at ease he had become; how he dreaded, yet desired, the interview that was to decide his fate. The distance between the railway station and Magruder's Hotel was so short that it was passed over in a few minutes. Ishmael paid and dismissed the cab, and the two gentlemen went in.
I shall leave this place this Friday evening; see your solicitors on Monday; place in their hands a sum equivalent to the full value of Brudenell Hall, as a compensation to you for my long use of the house; and then sign whatever documents may be necessary to renounce all claim upon yourself and your estate, and to free you forever from "Berenice, Countess of Hurstmonceux."
Did you notice it, Elinor?" "Yes, mamma. The superscription was in a very delicate feminine handwriting; and the seal was a wounded falcon, drawing the arrow from its own breast surmounted by an earl's coronet." "'Tis the seal of the Countess of Hurstmonceux." I am undone; there is no living, none, If Bertram be away.
Brudenell hastily rose from her seat. She was not accustomed to opposition; she was too proud to plead further; and she was very much displeased with Berenice for disappointing her cherished plan of introducing her daughter, the Countess of Hurstmonceux, to the circles of Washington. "The first dinner bell has rung some time ago, my dear. I will not detain you longer.
"Between four and five o'clock this morning, my dear." "Between four and five o'clock this morning! Good Heavens!" exclaimed Claudia and Berenice simultaneously, starting and gazing into each other's faces. "What is the matter?" gravely inquired the judge. "That was the very hour in which Claudia was awakened by her strange dream!" replied Lady Hurstmonceux.
Lady Hurstmonceux went and dropped into her chair, and gazed at Hannah with breathless interest. Hannah drew another forward and sat down opposite to the countess. "Now then," said Berenice eagerly. "My lady, what I have to tell is soon said. My sister was buried in her wedding-ring. Her son was born in wedlock."
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