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On second thoughts though, he added, putting up a pocket-book he had produced while speaking, 'I'll not give you a card, for if it was found upon you, it might get you into trouble. Langdale that's my name vintner and distiller Holborn Hill you're heartily welcome, if you'll come.
As they handed them to each other, without talking of them, it was as though the shuttle of fate flew from life to life these in Langdale, and that in London weaving the three into a new pattern which day by day replaced and hid away the old. The days lengthened towards midsummer. After a spell of rain, June descended in blossom and sunshine on the Westmoreland vales.
After a while her hostess came to her, pale and tearful, to beg her, if she possibly could, to show herself at the breakfast table. Captain Fisher had repeatedly asked for her, she said; and he seemed very uneasy. Mrs. Langdale rose, washed her face, and made an effort to powder away the evidence of her grief. Then she went bravely down and faced the silent crowd in the breakfast room.
"You have always been unwilling to make calls before, from the time you were a little girl of six, and I thought it would be a fine thing to take you and Theobald in the barouche to call on Mrs. Langdale, but when I looked for you I could find you nowhere and afterwards I discovered that you had both hidden in the loft in the stable-yard.
Molly was slightly vexed with him for imagining that she could be so dull. The great country house was invaded by a host of guests on the following day. Portmanteaux and gun-cases were continually in evidence. The place was filled to overflowing. Mrs. Langdale, who was Mrs. Richmond's greatest friend, arrived in excellent spirits, and was delighted to find Molly Erle a fellow-guest.
In return for great entertainments she was invited to great entertainments, to large parties; but further she could never penetrate. At Lady St. James's, and with her set, Lady Clonbrony suffered a different kind of mortification from that which Lady Langdale and Mrs. Dareville made her endure.
'And yet he certainly looks like somebody one certainly should know, pursued Lady Langdale, 'though I don't recollect seeing him anywhere before. 'Really now! was all the satisfaction she could gain from the insensible, immovable colonel.
Take a glass of orgeat sip from time to time, thus speak low, looking innocent all the while straight forward, or now and then up at the lamps keep on in an even tone use no names and you may tell anything. 'Well, then, when Miss Nugent first came to London, Lady Langdale 'Two names already did not I warn ye? 'But how can I make myself intelligible? 'Initials can't you use or genealogy?
By this time the children knew the names of most of the mountains around, and of all the lakes. They went through them now like a lesson with their father; and even Olly remembered a great many, and could chatter about Helvellyn, and Fairfield, and Langdale Pikes, as if he had trudged to the top of them all himself. Then came the getting down again.
"It is a simple test," explained Kennedy, indicating to Miss Langdale that he wished to repeat it on her patient. Mrs. Wardlaw's knee showed no reflex! As he turned to us, we could see that Kennedy's face was lined deeply with thought, and he paced up and down the room once or twice, considering what he had observed. I could see that even this simple interview had greatly fatigued Mrs. Wardlaw.
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