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'No doubt, dear, if dukes went about the world, like King Cophetua, on the look out for beggar-maids. 'I am so happy to think you are coming to Kingthorpe! It is the dearest old place. We shall be so happy! 'It will not be your fault if we are not, darling, said Ida, looking tenderly at the loving face, uplifted to hers.
He was understood to be contributing to the English magazines, and to be getting his living decently, which was better than languishing under the cognizance of the Lamb and Flag, with no immediate prospect of briefs. Kingthorpe, beautiful even in the winter, with its noble panorama of hills and woods, was now looking its loveliest in the leafy month of June.
There is nothing debasing in a smock-frock or a fustian jacket. The labourers I see about Kingthorpe have a glorious air of independence, and I daresay are as proud, in their way, as if they were dukes. But shabby finery genteel gowns worn threadbare: there is a deep degradation in those. 'Not for you, answered Dr. Rylance, earnestly, with an admiring look in his blue-gray eyes.
They was a bit above themselves, and the drive has done 'em good. Miss Wendover's cherished brown cobs, animals which in the eyes of Kingthorpe were almost as sacred as that Egyptian beast whose profane slaughter was more deeply felt than the nation's ruin to think that these exalted brutes should have been sent to fetch that debased creature, a salaried companion.
Ten shillings more were spent upon calico, and another sovereign went by-and-by at the bootmaker's, leaving the damsel with just twenty shillings out of her quarter's wage; but as the need of pocket-money at Kingthorpe, except for the Sunday offertory, was nil, she felt herself passing rich in the possession of that last remaining sovereign.
For pity's sake, say no more. You ought not to have spoken. I am going away from Kingthorpe to-morrow, perhaps for ever. Yes, for ever. How could I know, how could I think you would care for me? Let me go! she cried, struggling away from him as he clasped her hand, as he tried to draw her towards him. 'It is hopeless, mad, wicked to talk to me of love: some day you will know why, but not now.
And now, after refusing ever so many nice young men in the Government offices because they were not rich enough for her, she is going to make a great match, and marry a nasty old man. 'Oh, Bessie! nasty and old! 'Strong language, isn't it? but the gentleman has been to Kingthorpe, and there is no doubt about the fact.
He hated the country, and Wimperfield would be only a shade better than Kingthorpe; but it was essential that he should please his easy-tempered father-in-law. 'If he wanted me to live in the moon I should have to go there! he said to himself.
'How a coincidence? 'That after so long an absence you should happen to come to Kingthorpe on the day that made such a change in my father's fortunes. 'I came because of Bessie's birthday as I told you before. Does this sad event make any difference to your father? he asked innocently. 'Are there not nearer relatives? 'None that I know of.
When he died there would be two houses of furniture, plate, pictures, horses and carriages, and the Kingthorpe cottage, to be realized for Urania. He estimated these roughly as worth between six and seven thousand pounds, and he considered seven thousand pounds an ample fortune for his only daughter. Urania was in happy ignorance of the modesty of his views.
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