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Updated: May 8, 2025
On all sides it was agreed that the case against Lord Maulevrier was black as Erebus; and still Lady Maulevrier looked society in the face with an unshaken courage, and was ready with smiles and gracious words for all comers. But now came a harder trial, which was to receive the man who had disgraced her, lowered her pride to the dust, degraded the name she bore.
Those terrible rumours which had first come upon the world of London last June, had been growing darker and more defined ever since, but still Lady Maulevrier made believe to ignore them; and she acted her part of unconsciousness with such consummate skill that nobody in her circle could be sure where the acting began and where the ignorance left off.
It is Steadman's old uncle a lunatic I sheltered. Why is he allowed to come to my room? 'I am Lord Maulevrier, said the old man, drawing himself up and planting his crutch stick upon the floor; 'I am Lord Maulevrier, and this woman is my wife. Yes, I am mad sometimes, but not always, I have my bad fits, but not often.
'You like Lady Kirkbank, I hope? said Lady Maulevrier, as they went towards the ball, where that lady was waiting for them, with Lady Mary and Fräulein Müller in attendance upon her. 'She seems very kind, but I should like her better if she did not paint or if she painted better.
'And so, Lady Maulevrier, he exclaimed, turning to his grandmother, 'I have borne a title that never belonged to me, and enjoyed the possession of another man's estates all this time, thanks to your pretty little plot. A very respectable position for your grandson to occupy, upon my life! Lord Hartfield lifted his hand with a warning gesture. 'Spare her, he said.
No question was deep enough to repel her; for was not her lover interested in the dryest thereof; and what concerned him and his welfare must needs be full of interest for her. To this end she read the debates religiously day by day; and she one day ventured shyly to suggest that she should read them aloud to Lady Maulevrier.
Her grandmother was kinder than she had been in days gone by, less inclined to find fault; but Mary knew that her society gave Lady Maulevrier very little pleasure, that she could do hardly anything towards filling the gap made by Lesbia's absence. There was no one to scold her, no one to quarrel with her.
He made up his mind that before he left he would seek an interview with Lady Maulevrier, and boldly ask her to explain the mystery of that old man's presence at Fellside.
Her diamonds would have been the finest in London. 'They would have been stained with the blood of the niggers he traded in out yonder, answered Maulevrier. 'Do you think I would have let my sister marry a slave-dealer? 'I don't believe a syllable of it, protested Lady Kirkbank, dabbing her brow with a handkerchief steeped in eau de Cologne.
'My dear child I'm afraid it is the fashion of the day, just as it was in Pope's time, and we ought to think nothing about it. 'Well, I suppose I shall get hardened in time. 'My dearest Lesbia, shrieked Lady Kirkbank from below, 'remember we have to catch a train. Lesbia hurried downstairs, followed by Lady Maulevrier, who had to bid her friend adieu.
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