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"It is one of your jokes, Mr. Val!" "Indeed, it is the truth. My brother will be down with a trainful; and desires that everything shall be ready for their reception." "My patience!" gasped Mirrable. "And the servants, sir?" "Most of them will be here to-night. The Countess-Dowager of Kirton is coming as Hartledon's mistress for the time being."
"I am Lord Hartledon's butler." "Is Lord Hartledon at home?" "No, sir. He is in France." "I read a notice of his marriage in the public papers," continued the stranger, whose eyes were fixed on Hedges. "It was, I suppose, a correct one?" "My lord was married the week before last: about ten or eleven days ago." "Ay; April the fourteenth, the paper said. She is one of the Kirton family.
Captain Heseltine stated his opinion that if Sir Robert won, there would be "some fun" in Kirton, and was understood to mean that the Queen's Peace would be broken. Apparently the police authorities were of the same way of thinking, for at their request all preparations were made for calling out the Mounted Volunteers.
"Perhaps you can tell that better than I." The countess-dowager pushed up her hair. "Are you going to throw off the mask outright, and become a bad husband as well as a neglectful one?" Val rose from his seat and went to the window, which opened to the ground. He did not wish to quarrel with her if he could help it. Lady Kirton raised her voice.
"To hear you talk, Hartledon, one might have supposed you cared for the girl yourself," cried Lady Kirton; but her brow was smooth again, and her tone soft as honey. "You should be more cautious." "Cautious! Why so? I love and respect Anne beyond any girl on earth.
He was crossing the room; a curious expression on his drawn lips. Laura watched him from it; then went and stood before the dowager; her back to her sister. "Has it ever struck you, Lady Kirton, that you may one day have to account for this?" "It strikes me that you are making a vast deal of unnecessary noise, Madame Laura!"
She remained three days, completely upsetting the house; so completely upsetting the invalid Lady Hartledon, that the latter was glad to lend her a sum of money to get rid of her. Truth to say, Lady Kirton had never been a welcome guest at Hartledon; had been shunned, in fact, and kept away by all sorts of ruses.
"Do you think it seemly, this flirtation of yours with Lord Hartledon?" Anne turned in amazement. The face of the old dowager was close to her; the snub nose and rouged cheeks and false flaxen front looked ready to eat her up. "I have no flirtation with Lord Hartledon, Lady Kirton; or he with me.
James Tidwell, convicted at the same sessions of a felony. Ordered to be transported for seven years. Samuel Chapman, convicted at the Spilsby quarter sessions, Jan. 16, 1818, of a felony. Ordered to be transported for seven years. David Jones, convicted at the Kirton quarter sessions, Jan. 20, 1818, of a felony. Ordered to be transported for seven years.
That Lady Hartledon and Maude Kirton were two very distinct persons he had discovered already; the one had been all gentleness and childlike suavity, the other was positive, extravagant, and self-willed; the one had made a pretence of loving him beyond all other things in life, the other was making very little show of loving him at all, or of concealing her indifference.
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