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Updated: June 3, 2025
'What does Luxellian write for, I wonder? Mr. Swancourt had said simultaneously with her words. He handed Stephen his letter, and took his own, putting on his countenance a higher class of look than was customary, as became a poor gentleman who was going to read a letter from a peer. Stephen read his missive with a countenance quite the reverse of the vicar's. 'PERCY PLACE, Thursday Evening.
They then swept round by innumerable lanes, in which not twenty consecutive yards were either straight or level, to the domain of Lord Luxellian. A woman with a double chin and thick neck, like Queen Anne by Dahl, threw open the lodge gate, a little boy standing behind her. 'I'll give him something, poor little fellow, said Elfride, pulling out her purse and hastily opening it.
When she was better, I said she would live to be married yet, and she said then, "Yes; I'll do anything for the benefit of my family, so as to turn my useless life to some practical account." Well, it began like this about Lord Luxellian courting her. The first Lady Luxellian had died, and he was in great trouble because the little girls were left motherless.
I think you heard me speak of him as the resident landowner in this district, and patron of this living? 'I know of him. 'He is in London now. It seems that he has run up on business for a day or two, and taken Lady Luxellian with him. He has written to ask me to go to his house, and search for a paper among his private memoranda, which he forgot to take with him.
'I wonder if it is John Smith, Stephen's father? 'I believe it is, said Elfride, with apprehension. 'Ah, and can it be? I should like to inquire how his son, my truant protege', is going on. And from your father's description of the vault, the interior must be interesting. Suppose we go in. 'Had we better, do you think? May not Lord Luxellian be there? 'It is not at all likely.
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