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'Come what may, I shall never forget the happy weeks I have spent at Fellside, said Hammond, 'or your ladyship's gracious hospitality. He took up the beautiful hand, white to transparency, showing the delicate tracing of blue veins, and pressed his lips upon it in chivalrous worship of age and womanly dignity. Lady Maulevrier smiled upon him with her calm, grave smile.
Such a grandson would have gratified her pride, and would have repaid her for the trouble she had taken in nursing the Maulevrier estate; for however poor a property it was when her husband went to India there is no doubt that it is a very fine estate now, and that the dowager has been the making of it.
Mary could not enter upon the question. It was even of less importance than the wedding gown. The gong sounded for luncheon. 'Steadman's dogcart is to take Mr. Hammond to the station at half-past two, said Lady Maulevrier, 'so you had better go and give him his luncheon. Mary needed no second bidding. She flew downstairs, and met her lover in the hall. What a happy luncheon it was!
The Abbe de Maulevrier and Mademoiselle de Langeron persuaded the Princess that Madame du Maine was at the point of death, and was only desirous of seeing her dear mother before she expired, to receive her last benediction, as she should die innocent.
'There will be a few women, of course? 'Oh, yes, there's no avoiding that; only one doesn't reckon them. Sir George only counts his guns. We expect a splendid season. I shall send you some birds of my own shooting. 'You shoot! exclaimed Lady Maulevrier, amazed. 'Shoot! I should think I do. What else is there to amuse one in Scotland, after the salmon fishing is over?
How dare you look me in the face and charge my dead husband with treachery and dishonour? I believe neither in your story nor in you, and I defy you to the proof of this vile charge against the dead! 'In other words you mean that you will keep the money and jewels which Lord Maulevrier stole from my father?
James Steadman spent a good deal of his time waiting about at the docks for the earliest news of Greene's ship, the Hypermnestra; while Lady Maulevrier waited patiently in her sitting-room at the Dolphin, whose three long French windows commanded a full view of the High Street, with all those various distractions afforded by the chief thoroughfare of a provincial town.
'Hammond and I mean to spend a month or six weeks with you, if you can make us comfortable, said Maulevrier. 'I am delighted to hear that you can contemplate staying a month anywhere, replied her ladyship. 'Your usual habits are as restless as if your life were a disease. It shall not be my fault if you and Mr. Hammond are uncomfortable at Fellside.
John Hammond might be playing a very deep game, perhaps assisted by Maulevrier. He might ostensibly leave Fellside before Lesbia's return, yet lurk in the neighbourhood, and contrive to meet her every day. If Maulevrier encouraged this folly, they might be married and over the border, before her ladyship fettered, impotent as she was could interfere.
It was evening, and the two girls were dawdling about on the sloping lawn before the drawing-room windows, where Lady Maulevrier read the newspapers in her own particular chair by one of those broad Tudor windows, according to her infallible custom.
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