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Presty answered, "except that she had a bad night. Thinking, no doubt, over your advice," the old lady added with a mischievous smile. "Will you kindly inquire if Mrs. Linley has made up her mind yet?" the lawyer ventured to say. "Isn't that your business?" Mrs. Presty asked slyly. "Suppose you write a little note, and I will send it up to her room."
"Not a word!" He refused to be silent. "It is I," he said; "I only who am to blame." "Spare yourself the trouble of making excuses," she answered; "they are needless. Herbert Linley, the woman who was once your wife despises you." Her eyes turned from him and rested on Sydney Westerfield. "I have a last word to say to you. Look at me, if you can." Sydney lifted her head.
'There's some mystery here, he said; 'I'm a plain man, I don't like mysteries. Mr. Linley had something to say to me, when the message interrupted him. Who sent the message? Do you know? If there is a woman living, Catherine, who would have told the truth, in such a position as mine was at that moment, I should like to have her photograph.
Wheatley, an old friend of the family, had been appointed Secretary to the Embassy in Sweden. Miss Linley wife and no wife, obliged to conceal from the world what her heart would have been most proud to avow, was also absent from Bath, being engaged at the Oxford music-meeting. The letter containing the preliminaries of the challenge was delivered by Mr. Mathews, attended by his neighbor Mr.
"I won't trouble you with my own impressions," Mrs. Presty went on. "I will be careful only to mention what I have seen and heard. If you refuse to believe me, I refer you to the guilty persons themselves." She had just got to the end of those introductory words when Mrs. Linley returned, by way of the library, to fetch the forgotten parasol. Randal insisted on making Mrs.
"Go on with your story, and you shall have another bottle!" cried Randal. "What did Catherine and the child do after they left you?" "They did the safest thing they left England. Mrs. Linley distinguished herself on this occasion. We consulted our guide and found that a line of steamers sailed from Hull to Bremen once a week.
Linley addressed herself to her mother. "When we last met, I thought you spoke rashly and cruelly. I know now that there was truth some truth, let me say in what offended me at the time. If you felt strongly, it was for my sake. I wish to beg your pardon; I was hasty, I was wrong." On an occasion when she had first irritated and then surprised him, Randal Linley had said to Mrs.
It roused her to the exercise of self-control as nothing had roused her yet. She ignored Mrs. Presty's irony with a composure worthy of Mrs. Presty herself. "Where is the woman," she said, "who would not wish to be as beautiful as Mrs. Linley and as good?" "Thank you, my dear, for a compliment to my daughter: a sincere compliment, no doubt. It comes in very neatly and nicely," Mrs.
I thought I had done rather a clever thing in providing Mrs. Linley with a friend in need while I was away from her." "I think so, too," said Randal. "Wrong, completely wrong. I had made a mistake I had been too clever, and I got my reward accordingly. You know how I advised Mrs. Linley?" "Yes. You persuaded her, with the greatest difficulty, to apply for a Divorce." "Very well.
Linley answered the note in person. The next day Kitty's grandmother ripe for more mischief altered her mind, and thoroughly enjoyed her journey to the seaside. During the first week there was an improvement in the child's health, which justified the doctor's hopeful anticipations. Mrs. Linley wrote cheerfully to her husband; and the better nature of Mrs.
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