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At length, having made provision for the maintenance of the old friends and old servants who formed Sir Hugh's family at Lidcote Hall, he himself embarked with his friend Raleigh for the Virginia expedition, and, young in years but old in grief, died before his day in that foreign land.
You've probably cut her; if not now, at least in the past. And in a cut if you're not first you're nowhere. That's what keeps up so many quarrels." The word roused Mrs. Lidcote to a renewed sense of realities. "But the Pursues," she said "the Pursues are so strong! There are so many of them, and they all back each other up, just as my husband's family did.
"But she didn't did she? openly defy the world for you? She didn't snap her fingers at the Lidcotes?" Mrs. Lidcote shook her head, still smiling. "No. It was enough to defy my family. It was doubtful at one time if they would tolerate her seeing me, and she almost had to disinfect herself after each visit.
Lidcote, though she had made the gesture of ringing for her maid, had not done so. When the door closed, she continued to stand motionless in the middle of her soft spacious room.
I understand that." There was a pause during which Leila, vaguely averting herself from her mother's scrutiny, drifted toward the dressing-table and began to disturb the symmetry of the brushes and bottles laid out on it. "Do your visitors know that I'm here?" Mrs. Lidcote suddenly went on.
Lorin Boulger should be favorably impressed, in order that Wilbour may have the best possible chance of getting Borne." "I told Leila you'd feel that, dear. You see, it's actually on your account so that they may get a post near you that Leila invited Mrs. Boulger." "Yes, I see that." Mrs. Lidcote, abruptly rising from her seat, turned her eyes to the clock. "But, as you say, it's getting late.
Mrs. Lidcote, as the huge menacing mass of New York defined itself far off across the waters, shrank back into her corner of the deck and sat listening with a kind of unreasoning terror to the steady onward drive of the screws.
Lidcote wished her talk with Leila to come first, and had, moreover, at luncheon, caught stray allusions to an impending tennis-match in which her son-in-law was engaged. "Before tea, then, you duck!" Leila with a last kiss had decided; and presently Mrs. Lidcote, through her open window, had heard the fresh loud voices of her daughter's visitors chiming across the gardens from the tennis-court.
I shall be glad to see Mary Giles again. It must be eighteen years," said Mrs. Lidcote steadily. "Yes," Miss Suffern gasped, precipitately refilling her cup. "The Ashton Gileses; and who else?" "Well, the Sam Fresbies. But the most important person, of course, is Mrs. Lorin Boulger." "Mrs. Boulger? Leila didn't tell me she was coming." "Didn't she? I suppose she forgot everything when she saw you.
There was nothing for it, therefore, but to acquiesce in her decision and keep her with them till the afternoon before the day of the Utopia's sailing. This arrangement fitted in with certain projects which, during her two days' seclusion, Mrs. Lidcote had silently matured.
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