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Bessie had intended scrupulously to avoid any such home question; but her feelings carried her away directly she began to talk of John Jardine. 'I cannot tell you a lie. Bessie; no, my life is not a happy one. All colour and brightness, all youthfulness and fervour, went out of me when I left Kingthorpe; but it is an endurable life, and I make the best of it.
Ida strolled in the moonlit garden with Mr. Wendover, Bessie Urania, and Mr. Ratcliffe, a very juvenile curate, who was Bessie's admirer and slave. Urania had no particular admirer She felt that every one at Kingthorpe must needs behold her with mute worship; but there was no one so audacious as to give expression to the feeling; no one of sufficient importance to be favoured with her smiles.
But I wonder you had not heard of this sooner; it was in the evening papers yesterday. 'Then you must have known that my cousins were dead when you came to Kingthorpe last night? said Ida, looking up at her husband. Suddenly, in a flash of memory, came back those thoughtless words of hers spoke at Les Fontaines, when her father talked of the possibility of inheriting a fortune and a baronetcy.
'Rogers ought not to have given him so much. 'Oh! but Rogers said it wasn't his place to make remarks, only he was very sorry for poor Mrs. Wendover that's you, you know not Mrs. Wendover at Kingthorpe. 'Oh, Vernie, you were not listening? 'Of course not. I wasn't listening on purpose; but I was in the lobby outside the housekeeper's room, waiting for some grease for my shooting boots.
Four years and more had gone, and there were changes at Wimperfield changes at Kingthorpe. Death had come to the Georgian mansion among the wood-crowned hills.
Dr. Rylance liked money; but he liked it only for what it could buy. He had no sons, and he was much too fond of himself to lead laborious days in order to leave a large fortune to his daughter. He had bought a lease of his London house, which would last his time; he had bought the freehold of the Kingthorpe cottage; and he was living up to his income.
Helena, squabbling with Sir Hudson Lowe, is as dignified a figure as Napoleon at the Tuileries, in the zenith of his power? But I ought not to be grumbling at fate. I have been happy for six sunshiny weeks. If I were to live to be a century old, I could never forget how good people at Kingthorpe have been to me. I will go back to my old slavery, and live upon the memory of that happiness.
In a word, Miss Rylance had become a disciple of the peacock-feather school of art, and affected to despise every other development of intellect, or beauty. This was the first time that she and Ida had met since the latter's return to Kingthorpe, except indeed for briefest greetings in the churchyard after morning service.
I said once only a little while ago that I would marry for money. I find that I am not so base as I thought myself. 'Perhaps the temptation is not large enough, said Dr. Rylance. 'If I had been Brian Wendover, and the owner of Kingthorpe Abbey, you would hardly have rejected me so lightly. Ida crimsoned to the roots of her hair. The shaft went home. It was as if Dr.
This thing had been known in London yesterday afternoon. It was this knowledge which had sent Brian Walford to Kingthorpe to claim his wife. She had suddenly become a wife worth claiming the daughter of Sir Reginald Palliser of Wimperfield. 'You knew this, she repeated, looking at her husband, with infinite scorn expressed in eye and lip. 'No, upon my soul, he answered; 'I left town early.
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