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If I were in your place, I should quit." "She'll repent it!" raved Mrs. Ingleton. "Oh, she will repent it bitterly!" "Very likely," conceded Ingleton. "But she's kicked over the traces now, and that fact won't pull her up anyhow, at present," Mrs. Ingleton's look held fierce resentment. "Are you going to let her go?" she said. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Is there no way of meeting it? None whatever?" "I cannot pay; I shrink from borrowing. The trust funds in my charge are sacred " "Of course!" said she, astonished that he should name them in such a connection. "Is there nothing else?" "My creditor is Robert Ratman or as he calls himself, and possibly is, Roger Ingleton. As you know, he claims to be the elder brother of our Roger, and I "
The clock was chiming one in Castleridge Church when at length he reined up his spent horse at the stable entrance to the Grange. Here for a weary quarter of an hour he rang, called, and whistled before the glimmer of a lantern gave promise of an answer. To the stable-boy's not altogether polite inquiry, Mr Armstrong replied, "Mr Ingleton of Maxfield is ill.
"I'll join you in a minute, Roger," said he to his ward, "but I must go and pay my respects to your mother." "Oh, she'll keep," said Roger; "I want to hear what you've been up to." "In five minutes," said the tutor, going to the drawing-room. Mrs Ingleton was there, looking pale and fragile, pouring out afternoon tea for Captain Oliphant.
"Well, you're a woman, you ought to know how to manage your own kind," he said. "Sylvia's mother was an invalid for so long that I expect the child did grow a bit out of hand. I'll leave her to you then, Caroline. If you can manage to marry her to Preston I believe you'll do her the biggest service possible." "Of course I should like to do that!" said Mrs. Ingleton, kissing him loudly. "Ah!
Fearlessly she swung round and confronted them. The utter freedom of her at that moment made her superb. The miracle had happened. She had rent the net that entangled her to shreds. Mrs. Ingleton was beginning to clamour in the room behind her. She turned swiftly and shut and locked the door. Then she faced the two men with magnificent courage.
Ingleton pursed her lips, "Oh, but there is simplicity and simplicity! Give me warmth, homeliness, and plenty of pretty things. This place is archaically cold quite like a convent. And you, my dear, might be the Sister Superior from your air. Now, Gilbert darling, you and I are going to be very firm with this child. I can plainly see she needs a guiding hand.
A clean-shaven little man, with a horsey appearance about the legs which evening-dress wholly failed to conceal, entered, and instinctively Sylvia rose to receive him. Mrs. Ingleton stopped short and stared as they met in the middle of the room. "Hullo, Sylvia!" said the little man, and stamped forward as if he had just dismounted after a long ride.
Mr Armstrong screwed his eye-glass round and stared at the speaker. "I beg your pardon," said he. "I say, sir, you might have written. Let me tell you, Mr Armstrong, that, as my dear relative's co-trustee and guardian " "I am sorry," observed the tutor, addressing Mrs Ingleton, "that Roger's cough is still troubling him.
We don't know whom we have to deal with; and the fact of Mr Ingleton having confided in him really, you know, weighs very little with me; old men of enfeebled intellect, my dear Pottinger, are so easily hoodwinked." "Quite so. Does it not occur to you, Captain, that a simple solution of the difficulty would be for Mrs Ingleton to send her boy to college?"
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