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"Ah!" ejaculated Miss Carleton, her face lighting with pleasure; "I have seen the trusty old fellow hundreds of times, you know. Indeed, he could give you the history of all the Mainwarings for the last three hundred years." "He gave me one very important bit of history," Harold Mainwaring replied, with a smile.
Why, man, the Bartons, father and sons, have been the family solicitors of the Mainwarings for the past fifty years. The old firm of Barton & Sons had charge of the settlement of the estate when it passed into Hugh Mainwaring's possession at the death of his father." "So I had understood," said the attorney; "I have heard Mr. Mainwaring himself speak of them."
In time the Mainwarings removed to New York, and ultimately the fortune that the pirate Scarfield had left behind him was used in part to found the great shipping house of Mainwaring & Bigot, whose famous transatlantic packet ships were in their time the admiration of the whole world. Prologue A very famous pirate of his day was Capt. Robertson Keitt.
The spark which had demolished Oldenhurst had been fired from the new telegraph-station in the hotel above the great Sierran canyon. There was a large house-party at Oldenhurst that morning. But it had been a part of the history of the Mainwarings to accept defeat gallantly and as became their blood.
"I will make a point of seeing those girls to-morrow Kate," he said. "I am glad you have come across them." Then he went off to his library, where he sat, and read, and lost himself in great thoughts far into the night. It is to be feared that during these hours he forgot the Mainwarings and their troubles. Mrs.
"Oh, fie, Dove! you will have your joke," answered his wife; but she said nothing further about giving the Mainwarings notice to quit. Mr. Danesfield always forwarded the girls' allowance in such a way that Primrose could easily obtain it he did not trouble her with cheques or bank notes, but sent a money-order, which she could cash at the nearest post-office.
Just left yesterday, you say. . . . Yes I rather wanted to see her. Going to be where? At the Mainwarings' dance to-night. Thank you. But you don't know where she is at present. . . ." He hung up the receiver, and sat back in his chair, with a frown. Then suddenly a thought struck him, and he pulled the letters he had received that morning out of his pocket.
Second Jasmine, you need not get so very red, my dear second, we will discuss something also of importance; how are you three dear girls going to live?" Here Miss Martineau paused, took off her spectacles, wiped them, and put them on again. She felt really very kindly, and would have worked herself to a skeleton, if need be, for the sake of the Mainwarings, whom she sincerely loved.
"The Mainwarings might think it was their champagne or the early symptoms of 'flu or unrequited love. . . . And they are so very respectable aren't they? the Mainwarings, I mean?" Vane looked at her gravely. "Don't speak for a bit. I'll get you another glass of champagne. . . ." But Joan rose. "I don't want it," she said. "Take me somewhere where we can talk."
I can't help shivering, even now when I think of that wicked man Dove, and what a state he put dear little Daisy into." "If praises of the Mainwarings is to begin," answered Mrs. Mortlock in her tartest voice, "what I say is, let me retire.
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