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A sharp word would have silenced the mother's well-meant chatter at any time for she was a fragile, nervous woman, entirely dependent on her surroundings but none of them were capable of it, and their mere refractoriness counted for nothing. The dining-room in which they were gathered had a good deal of homely dignity, and was to the Leyburns full of associations.
Towards the middle of June there was a grand ball given by Lady Fauntleroy at Fauntleroy House, to which the two Miss Leyburns, by Lady Helen's machinations, were invited. It was to be one of the events of the season, and when the cards arrived 'to have the honour of meeting their Royal Highnesses, etc. etc., Mrs.
He felt in it a momentary self-surrender that, coming from a creature of so rare a dignity, filled him with an exquisite sense of power, and yet at the same time with a strange humility beyond words. A day or two later he was the spectator of a curious little scene. An aunt of the Leyburns living in Whinborough came to see them.
The story of the Leyburns always seems to me typical of many things. Robert looked inquiry, and the vicar, sitting down having first picked up his wife's ball of wool as a peace-offering, which was loftily accepted launched into a narrative which way be here somewhat condensed.
Hugh Flaxman, the Leyburns' new acquaintance and Lady Helen's brother, had been drawn to Elsmere at first sight; and a meeting or two, now at Lady Charlotte's, now at the Leyburns', had led both men far on the way to a friendship. Of Hugh Flaxman himself more hereafter. At present all that need be recorded is that it was at Mr. Flaxman's house, overlooking St.
A sharp word would have silenced the mother's well-meant chatter at any time for she was a fragile nervous woman, entirely dependent on her surroundings but none of them were capable of it, and their mere refractoriness counted for nothing. The dining room in which they were gathered had a good deal of homely dignity, and was to the Leyburns full of associations.
But at last the Mayews, father and son, set off on foot to walk home over the moonlit mountains; the doctor tucked himself and his daughter into his high gig and drove off with a sweeping ironical bow to Rose, who had stood on the steps teasing him to the last; and Robert Elsmere offered to escort the Miss Leyburns and their mother home. Mrs.
Thornburgh, who was now depressed all round, 'but all flounces and frills and nothing to say' and last of all those three sisters, the Leyburns, who seemed to be on a different level, and whom he had heard mentioned so often since his arrival by both husband and wife. 'Tell me about the Miss Leyburns, he said presently. 'You and cousin William seem to have a great affection for them.
'Unbelief, says the orthodox preacher, 'is sin, and implies it: and while he speaks, the saint in the unbeliever gently smiles down his argument; and suddenly, in the rebel of yesterday men see the rightful heir of to-morrow. Meanwhile the Leyburns were at Burwood again.
Amongst the cards she had still to fill up was one of which the envelope was addressed to the Hon. Hugh Flaxman, 90 St. James's Place. Lady Charlotte, though she had afterwards again left town, had been in Martin Street at the end of October. The Leyburns had lunched there, and had been introduced by her to her nephew, and Lady Helen's brother, Mr. Flaxman.
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