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He said he would accept any bid, however small, so that he could sever all connection with the hated village. From the day of Angela's elopement he neither saw nor wrote to any member of his family. His other sister, Mrs. Chichester, wrote to him from time to time telling him one time of the birth of a boy: two years later of the advent of a girl. Kingsnorth did not answer any of her letters.
When Nathaniel Kingsnorth found himself the fortunate possessor of this tract of land peopled by so lawless a race, he determined to see for himself what the conditions really were, so for the first time since they owned a portion of it, a Kingsnorth set foot on Irish soil.
Nathaniel Kingsnorth was endeavouring to understand how to manage so unwieldy and so troublesome an estate. The death of his father placed a somewhat extensive and so far entirely unprofitable portion of the village in his care.
It seemed to Wilberforce Kingsnorth, hardened after-dinner speaker though he was, that never had a body of men such as he confronted and who met his gaze by dropping their eyes modestly to their glasses, been so genuinely thrilled by so original, so comprehensive and so dramatic a conclusion to a powerful appeal.
"The doctor says he is well enough to be moved," replied Roche. "You've not seen the doctor. I've just questioned him. He told me you had not asked his opinion and that if you move him it will be without his sanction." Kingsnorth interrupted angrily: "Please don't interfere." Angela turned on him: "So, it's YOU who are sending him to prison?" "I am." Angela appealed to the magistrate.
Kingsnorth was of the opinion that you were well provided for and, that, outside of the sentimental reason that the girl was your own niece, the additional thousand pounds a year might be welcome as, say, pin-money for your daughter." Ethel laughed her dry, cheerless little laugh. "Ha! Pin-money!" Alaric grew suddenly grave and drew his mother and sister out of Mr. Hawkes' vicinity.
He folded her in his arms: "I'll give the best of my days to guard you and protect you and bring you happiness." "I am happy now," and her voice died to a whisper. Three days afterwards Nathaniel Kingsnorth returned late at night from a political banquet. It had been a great evening. At last it seemed that life was about to give him what he most wished for.
Kingsnorth expressly stipulated that a year was to elapse before any definite conclusion was arrived at. So far only a month has passed." "But she insists on returning to her father!" protested Mr. Hawkes. "Have you told her the conditions of the will?" "Certainly not. Mr. Kingsnorth distinctly stated she was not to know them." "Except under exceptional circumstances.
It was an old story carrying back mutilated men to the village. None was surprised. It seemed to Angela that an infinity of time had passed before they entered the grounds attached to the Kingsnorth house. She sent a man on ahead to order a room to be prepared and a doctor sent for. As she saw her brother coming forward to meet her with knit brows and stern eyes she nerved herself to greet him.
If, on the other hand, she proves herself worthy of the best traditions of the Kingsnorth family, the course of training is to be continued until she reaches the age of twenty-one, when I hereby bequeath to her the sum of five thousand pounds a year, to be paid to her annually out of my estate during her life-time and to be continued after her death to any male issue she may have by marriage."
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