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"'In my young days, Lady Lapith went on, 'I should have been laughed out of countenance if I'd said a thing like that. But then in my young days souls weren't as fashionable as they are now and we didn't think death was at all poetical. It was just unpleasant. "'Mamma!... Emmeline and Caroline implored in unison.
'I'll tell everyone, unless... "'It's blackmail. "'I don't care, said George. 'I'll give you twenty-four hours to decide. "Lady Lapith was disappointed, of course; she had hoped for better things for Timpany and a coronet. But George, after all, wasn't so bad. They were married at the New Year. "My poor grandfather!" Mr. Wimbush added, as he closed his book and put away his pince-nez.
Lest what has been said should suggest that the sculptors of the Olympia pediment-figures were indifferent to beauty, attention may be drawn again to the superb head of the Lapith bride. The twelve sculptured metopes of the temple do not belong to the exterior frieze, whose metopes were plain, but to a second frieze, placed above the columns and antae of pronaos and opisthodomos.
Lady Lapith did not marry again, but determined to devote the rest of her life to the well-being of her three children Georgiana, now five years old, and Emmeline and Caroline, twins of two." Henry Wimbush paused, and once more put on his pince-nez. "So much by way of introduction," he said. "Now I can begin to read about my grandfather." "One moment," said Mr.
"'In my young days Lady Lapith was launched into her subject; nothing, it seemed, could stop her now. 'In my young days, if you didn't eat, people told you you needed a dose of rhubarb. Nowadays... "There was a cry; Georgiana had swooned sideways on to Lord Timpany's shoulder. It was a desperate expedient; but it was successful. Lady Lapith was stopped.
A prosperous and dignified old age, cheered by the spectacle of his children's growth and happiness for Lady Lapith had already borne him three daughters, and there seemed no good reason why she should not bear many more of them, and sons as well a patriarchal decline into the family vault, seemed now to be Sir Ferdinando's enviable destiny. But Providence willed otherwise.
"George followed up this first introduction by paying a call on the young ladies and their mother, who occupied, during the season, a small but elegant house in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square. Lady Lapith made a few discreet inquiries, and having found that George's financial position, character, and family were all passably good, she asked him to dine.
The builder of this house was Sir Ferdinando Lapith, who flourished during the reign of Elizabeth. He inherited the estate from his father, to whom it had been granted at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries; for Crome was originally a cloister of monks and this swimming-pool their fish-pond.
'If God is good, he wrote in his day-book, 'the name of Lapith will be preserved and our rarer and more delicate race transmitted through the generations until in the fullness of time the world shall recognise the superiority of those beings whom now it uses to make mock of. On his wife's being brought to bed of a son he wrote a poem to the same effect.
The wish of two people who truly love one another is not to live together but to die together. "'Come, come, my dear, said Lady Lapith, stout and practical. 'What would become of the next generation, pray, if all the world acted on your principles? "'Mamma!... Georgiana protested, and dropped her eyes.
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