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As to the march he had stolen upon him on behalf of the Mansons, he nowise resented that. When pressed by no selfish necessity, he did not care much about money; and his son's promptitude greatly pleased him. "The fellow shall go to college," he said to himself; "and I won't give my lady even a hint before I have him the finest gentleman and the best scholar in the county! He shall be both!
He heard the news without a word, but his eyes flashed, and Wingfold knew he thought of Barbara and his mother and the Mansons. Then his face clouded. "It will bring trouble on the rest of my father's family!" he said. "Not upon all of them," returned Wingfold; "and you have it in your power to temper the trouble.
Falloden, between the two fair-haired Miss Mansons, manoeuvred them and himself into a position at the rear where he could both see and be seen by the party on the Christ Church barge, amid which a certain large white hat with waving feathers shone conspicuous.
Manson was a liar: might not her assertion of a relation between them be as groundless as it was spiteful? He had at once acknowledged the Mansons, but showed no recognition of himself on hearing his mother's name? There might be nothing in Mrs. Manson's story; he might after all be the son of John as well as of Jane Tuke! Only, alas, then, Alice and Arthur would not be his sister and brother!
"And what the devil does it matter to you if they are! It's my business that, not yours! You had nothing to do with it! You didn't make the Mansons!" "No, sir; but God made us all, and says we're to love our brethren." "Now don't you come the pious over me! It won't pay here! Mind you, nobody heard me acknowledge you! By the mighty heavens, I will deny knowing anything about you!
Not once before since Richard's return, had sir Wilton given the Mansons a thought, never doubting his son's residence at Oxford must have cured him of a merely accidental inclination to such low company, and made evident to him that recognition of such relationship as his to them was an unheard-of impropriety, a sin against social order, a class-treachery.
It was not the land; it was not the money; it was not the books; it was not even Barbara; it was Arthur and Alice that made it bound. But the voice of his father went on. "You know now, you idiot," it said, "why you can have nothing more to do with that cursed litter of Mansons!" Richard's heart rose to meet the heartlessness of his father. "They are my brother and sister, sir!" he said.
"Do, there's a heap to talk about, and smile like that just as long as you can the town needs it." She walked on, her mind very busy. Without question something excellent had happened to the Mansons and in a time like this! Manson was said to be in the way of making a fortune, and now, she concluded, he had made it.
He could not help a grudge that Richard should lose his position for the sake of such as the Mansons, but he saw now the principle involved. He saw too that, in virtue of his belief in God as the father of all, his nephew had much the stronger sense of the claim of man upon man.
"I must have a word with you: What young man and woman were you walking with two nights ago, not far from Wylder Hall?" "My brother and sister, sir the Mansons." "My God, I thought as much!" cried the baronet, and started to his feet but sat down again: the fetter of his gout pulled him back.
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