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Circumstances had armed her with the most irresistible of all natural forces the force of previous association and previous habit. Not by so much as a hair-breadth was the position of the false Grace Roseberry shaken by the first appearance of the true Grace Roseberry within the doors of Mablethorpe House. Lady Janet felt suddenly repelled, without knowing why.
She withdrew uneasily to the window, and looked out at the moonlight. Had she committed herself to the fraud? Hardly, yet. She had committed herself to returning to England nothing more. There was no necessity, thus far, which forced her to present herself at Mablethorpe House, in Grace's place.
How you would love and admire my mother! "I dined at Mablethorpe House, by previous appointment, on the day when Lady Janet returned from her degrading errand. "'Well? I said, waiting, of course, until the servant was out of the room. "'Well, Lady Janet answered, 'Julian was quite right. "'Quite right in what? "'In saying that the earth holds no nobler woman than Mercy Merrick.
How many hundreds of times she had rung the bell at Mablethorpe House! The servant came in. She amazed the man she spoke to him so timidly: she even apologized for troubling him! "I am sorry to disturb you. Will you be so kind as to say to the lady that I am ready for her?" "Wait to give that message," said a voice behind them, "until you hear the bell rung again."
"Must I really speak to Grace?" she asked, with a gentleness of tone and manner far from characteristic, on ordinary occasions, of the lady of Mablethorpe House. Horace saw that he had gained his point. He sprang to his feet; his eyes turned eagerly in the direction of the conservatory; his handsome face was radiant with hope. "Go to the smoking-room," she said, giving him a push toward the door.
Julian looked at him with quiet contempt. "It is directed to Me," he answered and opened the envelope. The message inside was expressed in these terms: "I am as deeply interested in her as you are. Say that I have received her letter, and that I welcome her back to the Refuge with all my heart. I have business this evening in the neighborhood. I will call for her myself at Mablethorpe House."
I stayed at Mablethorpe until the late autumn, and then I went to Harrogate, exchanging the sea for the moors, and there, still living the open-air life, I remained for several months until I had finished the book. The writing of it knew no interruption and was happily set. It was a thing apart, and not a single untoward invasion of other interests affected its course.
They all knew by experience that there were no stale dishes and no cheap wines at Mablethorpe House. They drank to the end of the bottle, and they ate to the last truffle in the dish. "Mercy and I had an interview with my aunt upstairs before we left. I felt it necessary to state plainly my resolution to leave England.
Scandal would point to her beauty and to his youth, and would place its own vile interpretation on the purest friendship that could exist between them. And he would be the sufferer, for he had a character a clergyman's character to lose. No. For his sake, out of gratitude to him, the farewell to Mablethorpe House must be also the farewell to Julian Gray. The precious minutes were passing.
Then you came on to Mablethorpe, and standing under my window, at the very moment when I was on my knees praying for the safety of those who travelled by sea, you whistled like a quail from the garden below the old signal. Oh, how my heart stood still a moment and then leaped, for I knew it was you! I went down to the garden, and there you were. Oh, but I was glad to see you, Cousin Dick!
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