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Updated: May 15, 2025
Why is it that I began to like going down to see Lady Maxwell why did I like talking to her at Castle Luton? Well! of course it's pleasant to be with a beautiful person I don't deny that in the least. But she might have been as beautiful as an angel, and I mightn't have cared twopence about her. She has something much less common than beauty.
Friend, Lady Luton and her seventeen-year-old daughter had shown any inclination to go to church. Geoffrey French and Helena had escorted the churchgoers the short way across the park, taking a laughing leave of them at the last stile, whence the old church was but a stone's throw. There was a circle of chairs on the lawn intermittently filled by talkers.
On Saturday, June 2, I set out for Scotland, and had promised to pay a visit in my way, as I sometimes did, at Southill, in Bedfordshire, at the hospitable mansion of 'Squire Dilly, the elder brother of my worthy friends, the booksellers, in the Poultry. Dr. Johnson agreed to be of the party this year, with Mr. Charles Dilly and me, and to go and see Lord Bute's seat at Luton Hoe.
Besides, after Castle Luton, George Tressady was so attractive! You did not know him, Aldous; but to talk to him stirred all one's energies; it was a perpetual battle one took it up again and again, enjoying it always.
A slim boy who was walking beside the "babe" of seventeen, some distance away, turned sharply at the sound, and running across the grass pulled up in front of Helena. "Well? here I am." "Shall we go and look at the lake? You might pull me about a little." "Ripping!" said the youth joyously. "Won't you want a cloak?" "No it's so hot. Shall we ask Miss Luton?" Peter made a face. "Why should we?"
Allisons of this world are the chief obstacles in the path of progress, deliberated when they were asked to Castle Luton, and fell protesting. And for a certain world, high-born, cultivated, and virtuous, she was almost a figure of legend, so widespread was the feeling she inspired, and so many were the associations and recollections that clustered about her.
It was not likely, however, that the abbe and his companion would pay a visit to Luton. Harry had gone. Clara felt very sad; her eye was constantly at the telescope in the drawing-room, looking out for the steamer which was conveying him to Alexandria. She at length caught sight of a long white line and a puff of grey smoke above it, which she believed must belong to the ship.
Just as the engine with its solitary coach was approaching the platform someone came running up with an envelope in his hand. 'Telegram from St Albans. I tore it open. It was brief and to the point. 'Arab with companion was in train when it left here. Am wiring Luton. 'That's all right. Now unless something wholly unforeseen takes place, we ought to have them. That unforeseen!
Moreover, he was again affectionate to his mother, and occasionally even went to church with her. The instincts of the English aristocrat reappeared amid the accomplishments of the petit-maitre, and poor Mrs. Allison's spirits revived. Then the golden-haired Lady Madeleine was asked to stay at Castle Luton. When she came Ancoats devoted himself with extraordinary docility.
Who or what sort of persons inherited Mackery End kindred or strange folk we were afraid almost to conjecture, but determined some day to explore. By somewhat a circuitous route, taking the noble park at Luton in our way from Saint Alban's, we arrived at the spot of our anxious curiosity about noon.
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