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"A lady," she added, "who came to you about the middle of last month." "Could yer leddyship condescend on her name?" Lady Lundie put a still stronger constraint on herself. "Silvester," she said, sharply. "Presairve us a'!" cried Mrs. Inchbare. "It will never be the same that cam' driftin' in by hersel' wi' a bit bag in her hand, and a husband left daidling an hour or mair on the road behind her?"
She is a respectable woman; and it is important to me to live on good terms with al my neighbors, great and small. Has she got a poultry-yard of her own at Craig Fernie?" "Yes, my lady. And beautifully kept, I am told." "I really don't see on reflection, Hopkins why I should hesitate to deal with Mrs. Inchbare. Some of my black Spanish fowls?" "Yes, my lady.
Inchbare suddenly entered the room with her cap-ribb ons flying, her eyes staring, and her bones looking harder than ever. "Eh, mistress!" she said to Anne. "Wha do ye think has driven here to see ye, from Windygates Hoose, and been owertaken in the storm?" Anne was speechless. Arnold put the question: "Who is it?" "Wha is't?" repeated Mrs. Inchbare.
Lady Lundie was perfectly aware that she would place us in that position, when she removed Blanche from this house. She has cross-examined Mrs. Inchbare; she has written to your steward for the date of your arrival at your estate; she has done every thing, calculated every thing, and foreseen every thing except my excellent temper.
"How are you getting on at the hotel, Mrs. Inchbare? Plenty of tourists, I suppose, at this time of year?" "You had a visitor, I think, some time since of whom I know something? A person " She paused, and put a strong constraint on herself. There was no alternative but to yield to the hard necessity of making her inquiry intelligible.
Leave out 'young, and the rest is the exact contrary of Mr. Delamayn. So far, Mrs. Inchbare guides us plainly enough. But how are we to apply her description to the right person? There must be, at the lowest computation, five hundred thousand men in England who are young, middle-sized, dark, nice-tempered, and pleasant spoken. One of the footmen here answers that description in every particular."
I know it now! Why has your husband forced you to leave Windygates at a moment's notice? Why does he slip out of the room in the dark, as if he was afraid of being seen? Anne! Anne! what has come to you? Why do you receive me in this way?" At that critical moment Mrs. Inchbare reappeared, with the choicest selection of wearing apparel which her wardrobe could furnish.
Your ladyship's black Spaniards are famous all round the neighborhood. Nobody has got the breed. And Mrs. Inchbare " "Wants to share the distinction of having the breed with me," said Lady Lundie. "I won't appear ungracious. I will see her myself, as soon as I am a little better, and tell her that I have changed my mind. Send one of the men to Craig Fernie with a message.
Cost what it might in present wretchedness end how it might, if the deception was discovered in the future Blanche must be kept in ignorance of the truth, Arnold must be kept in hiding until she had gone. Anne opened the door for the second time, and went in. The business of the toilet was standing still. Blanche was in confidential communication with Mrs. Inchbare.
"Here it is," she said, recovering the lost remembrance. "Not the gardener, but the gardener's wife. A memorandum to speak to her about Mrs. Inchbare. Observe, Hopkins, the association of ideas. Mrs. Inchbare is associated with the poultry; the poultry are associated with the gardener's wife; the gardener's wife is associated with the gardener and so the gardener gets into my head. Do you see it?
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