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We are sorry we have orders not to admit you. And they declined; they would not admit me to see my son. 'Those must be the squire's old orders, I said, and shouted to the lodge-keeper. My father, with the forethoughtfulness which never forsook him, stopped me.
Real musicians, however, were freely admitted, and often generously rewarded. They insisted on coming in, and the lodge-keeper said that if I had not appeared he verily believed they would have entered in spite of him.
We are sorry we have orders not to admit you. And they declined; they would not admit me to see my son. 'Those must be the squire's old orders, I said, and shouted to the lodge-keeper. My father, with the forethoughtfulness which never forsook him, stopped me.
The lodge-keeper saluted him from the garden below. Later the keeper's small son came up and from the opposite side of the roadway regarded him with the wide, curious gaze of a four-year-old. Mr. Wrandall disliked children. He made no friendly overtures. The child stood his ground, which was in a sense disconcerting, althought he couldn't tell why. He felt like saying "shoo!"
A drive of a couple of miles through narrow country lanes brought us to a park gate, which was opened for us by an old lodge-keeper, whose haggard face bore the reflection of some great disaster. The avenue ran through a noble park, between lines of ancient elms, and ended in a low, widespread house, pillared in front after the fashion of Palladio.
Casaubon was looking absently before him; but the lady was quick-eyed, and threw a nod and a "How do you do?" in the nick of time. In spite of her shabby bonnet and very old Indian shawl, it was plain that the lodge-keeper regarded her as an important personage, from the low curtsy which was dropped on the entrance of the small phaeton. "Well, Mrs.
Randal had suspected Violante to be there: he resolved to ascertain. Randal descended from his vehicle and rang the bell. The lodge-keeper opined the great wooden gates. "I have called to see the young lady staying here, the foreign young lady."
Any particulars not mentioned in the bills would be readily furnished on application at the office of the vendor's solicitors; and parties wishing to inspect the premises might obtain the keys from Miss Belcher's lodge-keeper, Mr. Polglaze that is to say, from the nearest dwelling-house down the road.
She lived in much retirement, and had so many virtues that she made herself respected all her life, which was long. M. de Beauvilliers was one of the children of the first marriage. I know not what care M. and Madame de Saint-Aignan took of the others, but they left him, until he was six or seven years of age, to the mercy of their lodge-keeper.
After much deliberation it was at last committed to the care of a little girl, the daughter of the lodge-keeper, whom Lady Flora thrice a week personally instructed in the mysteries of spelling, reading, and calligraphy.
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