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"A daughter of the house of Kirton cannot be taken up and cast aside at will. What would the world say of her?" "The world need never know." "Not know!" shrieked the dowager; "not know! Why, her trousseau is ordered, and some of the things have arrived. Good Heavens, Hartledon, you dare not trifle with Maude in this way. You could never show your face amongst men again."
He could not be happy without a secret society, and that he had established in Kirton; but it was, he ruefully admitted, hardly more than a toy, a mockery, the merest simulacrum.
"The right of being Lord Hartledon's brother," carelessly replied Anne. "It is a right he had best not presume upon," rejoined Lady Kirton. "Brothers are brothers as children; but the tie widens as they grow up and launch out into their different spheres. There's not a man of all Hartledon's guests but has more right to be here than Val Elster." "Yet they are brothers still." "Brothers!
The countess-dowager would come over for it, and did so; Lord Hartledon could not be discourteous enough to deny this; Lord and Lady Kirton came from Ireland; and for the first time since their marriage they found themselves entertaining guests. Lord Hartledon had made a faint opposition, but Maude had her own way.
Kirton he'll carry pretty solid, but that won't be enough." "How many seats are there here?" "Oh, here and in this district, which is under Kirton influence, about two-and-twenty, and he ought to get eighteen or nineteen of them; but what's that out of eighty members?" "And what's the reason? Merely his policy or ?" "Well, his policy a good deal.
"I'll send a message to him," decided Lady Kirton, ringing rather fiercely. A servant appeared. "Tell Lord Hartledon we are waiting tea for him." "His lordship's not in, my lady." "Not in!" "He went out directly after dinner, as soon as he had taken coffee." "Oh," said the countess-dowager.
My goodness, Maude, how thin you look! I see what it is! you've been killing yourself in that racketing London. It's well I've come to take care of you." Maude went in, feeling that she could have taken care of herself, and listening to the off-hand explanations of the countess-dowager. "Kirton offended me," she said.
So, sir, you'd imprison my finger, would you!" He had touched the child's hand, and in a moment it was clasped round his finger. Lady Hartledon laughed. "Lady Kirton the most superstitious woman in the world would say that was an omen: you are destined to be his friend through life." "As I will be," said the barrister, his tone more earnest than the occasion seemed to call for.
"I am seeing her professionally now; once or twice a week. She had one or two fainting-fits after she came down, and called me in." "Kirton says he used to have those fainting-fits. Are they a symptom of heart-disease?" "In Lady Hartledon I attribute them entirely to her present state of health. I assure you, I don't see the slightest cause for fear as regards your wife's heart.
"I have this evening married Maude Kirton. I might tell you of unfair play brought to bear upon me, of a positive assurance, apparently well grounded, that Anne had entered into an engagement to wed another, could I admit that these facts were any excuse for me. They are no excuse; not the slightest palliation. My own yielding folly alone is to blame, and I shall take shame to myself for ever.
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