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She had sent for this son of hers, hoping he might be a decoy-duck to draw Hartledon home again, for she was losing heart; and the accident, which she had not bargained for, was a very god-send to her. "Why don't you word your telegrams more clearly, Hedges?" asked Lord Hartledon of his butler. "It wasn't me worded it at all, my lord. Lady Kirton went to the station herself.
"I should like to know how." "So long as you are a single man they naturally remain on the high ropes at the Rectory, with their fine visions for Anne " "I wish you would understand once for all, Lady Kirton, that the Ashtons are our equals in every way," he interrupted: "and," he added, "in worth and goodness infinitely our superiors." The dowager gave a sniff. "You think so, I know, Hart.
The present writer, near the middle of the nineteenth century, knew a lady of family, position and property who was fond of the phrase, "hail-fellow-well-met," but always turned it into "Fellowship Wilmot" a pretty close parallel to "horsemangander" for "horse-godmother". Extension with levelling of education, and such processes as those which have turned "Sissiter" into "Syrencesster" and "Kirton" into "Credd-itt-on", have made the phenomenon rarer: but have also made such a locus classicus of the habit as this all the more valuable and amusing.
Benham, having no affairs to trouble him, and no more business to transact, stayed where he was. At an early hour on Sunday all Kirton seemed astir. The streets were alive with thronging people, with banners, with inchoate and still amorphous processions, with vendors of meat, drink, and newspapers.
"I should wish for a consultation, if your lordship has no objection." "Then pray call it without delay. Have anything, do anything, that may conduce to Lady Hartledon's recovery. You do not suspect heart-disease?" "The symptoms are not those of any heart-disease known to me. Lady Kirton spoke to me of this; but I see nothing to apprehend at present on that score.
I know their horrid voices, and dare say they are riotously drunk. Hartledon ought to put them in prison for it." The sounds died away into silence. Mrs. O'Moore took her hands from her eyes, where they had been pressed. "Don't you know what it is, Lady Kirton? It is the Irish death-wail!"
Kirton is utterly undone, and made 2 or L3000 worse than nothing, from being worth 7 or L8,000. That the goods laid in the Churchyarde fired through the windows those in St. He do believe there is above; L50,000 of books burned; all the great booksellers almost undone: not only these, but their warehouses at their Hall, and under Christchurch, and elsewhere being all burned.
"I shall not part with Maude," said Val, in quiet tones of decision. "You can't refuse her to me, I say," rejoined the dowager, nodding her head defiantly; "she's my own grandchild." "And my child. The argument on this point years ago was unsatisfactory, Lady Kirton; I do not feel disposed to renew it. Maude will remain in her own home."
"I wonder if a warmer climate would be of service? You might have that without exertion, travelling slowly." "Couldn't afford it," was the ingenuous answer. "I have forestalled my pay as it is." Lord Hartledon smiled. Never a more generous disposition than his; and if money could save this poor Bob Kirton, he should not want it.
"If you please, my lady, Captain Kirton has been asking for you once or twice," said Hedges, entering the dowager's private sitting-room. "Then Captain Kirton must ask," retorted the dowager, who was sitting down to her letters, which she had left unopened since their arrival in the morning, in her anxiety for other interests.
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