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He stopped, and laughed: 'Now I 'm pumping my pulpit-eh? You come with us to Lakelands. I drive the ladies down to my office, ten A.M.: if it's fine; train half-past. We take a basket. By the way, I had no letter from Dartrey last mail. 'He has buried his wife. It happens to some men. Mr. Radnor stood gazing. He asked for the name of the place of the burial. He heard without seizing it.
Heaven forgive me! she's an honest woman at least; I wouldn't rob her of her little: fifty-nine or sixty next September, fifteenth of the month! with the constitution of a broken drug-bottle, poor soul! She hears everything from Jarniman: he catches wind of everything. All foreseen, Fenellan, foreseen. I have made my stand at Lakelands, and there's my flag till it's hauled down over Victor Radnor.
It is too high a thought for me until I hear it. 'Has your soul! was all that Victor could reply, while the whole conception of Lakelands quaked under the crumbling structure. Remonstrance, argument, a word for Dudley, swelled to his lips and sank in dumbness.
Not even then? 'No, Victor; they have cast me off. 'Count on my cousins, the Duvidney ladies. Then we can say, that those two good old spinsters are less narrow than the Dreightons. I have to confess I rather think I was to blame for leaving Creckholt. Only, if I see my girl wounded, I hate the place that did the mischief. You and Fredi will clap hands for the country about Lakelands.
I carry them down to Lakelands to-morrow, if the City's flat. 'Keeping a secret's the lid on a boiling pot with you, Mr. Fenellan said; and he mused on the profoundness of the flavour at his lips. 'I do it. 'You do: up to bursting at the breast. 'I keep it from Colney! 'As Vesuvius keeps it from Palmieri when shaking him. 'Has old Colney an idea of it?
'My girl will have ten thousand a year settled on her the day of her marriage. Choice of living at Lakelands was offered. It helped him over the unpleasant part of that interview. At the same time, it moved him to a curious contempt of the youth. He had to conjure-up an image of the young man in person, to correct the sentiment: and it remained as a kind of bruise only half cured. Mr.
Nataly heard the invitation of the guests of the evening to Lakelands next day. Her anxieties were at once running about to gather provisions for the baskets. She spoke of them at night. But Victor had already put the matter in the hands of Madame Callet; and all that could be done, would be done by Armandine, he knew.
The ladies were eager for her entry into Lakelands. She heard that Victor had appointed Lady Blachington's third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor.
That is to say, the two former accepted invitations to grand dinners; the two latter acknowledged contributions to funds in which they were interested; but they had apparently grown to consider Mrs. Burman as an establishment, one of our fixtures. On the other hand, there was nothing to be feared from her. Lakelands feared nothing: the entry into Lakelands was decreed for the middle of April.
The ladies were eager for her entry into Lakelands. She heard that Victor had appointed Lady Blachington's third son to the coveted post of clerk in the Indian house of Inchling and Radnor.
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