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"Much obliged but I prefer a live Mummy and no clothes to a dead one. More tea?" "Thanks. No chance, of course. Where could one find four persons a day, in Maumsey, or near Maumsey, who want to learn French? The notion's absurd. I shouldn't get the lessons I do, if it weren't for the 'Honourable." "Snobs!" "Not at all! Not a single family out of the people I go to deserve to be called snobs.
He began hotly to con the terms of his letter to Lathrop; and then had to pull himself up, remembering unwillingly what he had promised Delia. "Do you know anything more?" The voice was Delia's; and the man who had just met her in the shelter of the wooded walk which ran along the crest of the hill above the Maumsey valley, was instantly aware of the agitation of the speaker. "Nothing precise.
The gates leading to Maumsey lay a little west of the village, while on the hill to the north rose, conspicuous against its background of wood, the famous old house of Monk Lawrence. It looked down upon Maumsey on the one hand and Bridge End on the other.
She paid a rent of no more than L40 a year for it, and Maumsey people who liked her, felt affectionately concerned that a duke's grand-daughter should be reduced to a rent and quarters so insignificant. Lady Tonbridge however was not at all concerned for the smallness of her house.
At the gate of Maumsey he stopped to speak to the lodge-keeper, and as he did so, a man opened the gate, and came in. With a careless nod to Winnington he took his way up the drive. Winnington looked after him in some astonishment. "What on earth can that fellow be doing here?"
"Don't tell me you've dislodged the Fury?" Winnington shook his head. "J'y suis j'y reste!" "I thought so. There is no civilised way by which men can eject a woman. Tell me all about it." Winnington, however, instead of expatiating on the Maumsey household, turned the conversation to something else especially to Nora's first attempts at golf, in which he had been her teacher.
A rush of speculation ran through the doctor's mind. "And you are settled at Maumsey?" Mrs. Matheson was saying to Delia; aware as soon as the question was uttered that it was a foolish one. "Oh no, not settled. We shall be there a couple of months." "The house will want some doing up, Mark thinks." "I don't think so. Not much anyway. It does very well."
Her loveliness in defiance dazzled him, but he held on stoutly. "You said nothing to me about these meetings the other day." "You never asked me!" He paused a moment. "No but was it quite quite fair to me to let me suppose that the drawing-room meeting at Maumsey, which you kindly gave up, was the only meeting you had in view?" He saw her breath fluttering. "I don't know what you supposed, Mr.
Her connection with Gertrude Marvell had begun, in London, at the "Daughters" office, as Delia now knew, long before her own appearance at Maumsey. When Gertrude came to the Abbey, she and this strange, determined woman were already well acquainted, though Delia herself had not been aware of it till quite lately. "I have been a child in their hands! they have never trusted me!"
Over her wrinkled face with its crooked features, there dawned a look of strange intensity, mingled very faintly with something exquisite a ray from a spiritual world. Winnington looked at her with reverence. He knew all about her; so did many of the dwellers in the Maumsey neighbourhood.
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