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Madison looked almost distraught. "Of course the Norths and the Maxwells come of good New England families I never did look down on the North as much as some of us did; after all, nearly three hundred years are very respectable indeed and if these two men had not been in politics I should have been delighted to receive them.
I know pretty well who it was that suggested to your father that the mortgage on the rectory should be foreclosed, and the Maxwells turned out of house and home. He's always been close-fisted, but I've never known him to be dead ugly and vindictive before. "Yes. You were behind all this wretched business and you're sorry for it, and wish you could undo the unkindness you've done.
Although it lies so low, it was built to resist everything but gunpowder: for how could the Maxwells dream that all their beautiful arrangements for pouring down molten lead and boiling oil would be useless against a new foe?
In this view it was not such valuable testimony to the success of the play as it had seemed before. But a second and a third reading of the notices made them seem friendlier than at first. The Maxwells now perceived that they had first read them in the fever of their joy from Godolphin's telegram, and that their tempered approval had struck cold upon them because they were so overheated.
Of course there was a great deal of troublesome law business to be adjusted, but the end of it was that, a few months later, Billy was in possession of a small fortune. The next question was, what to do with him. He could not stay on as a servant at the Maxwells, and he was entirely unable to take care of himself. Captain Maxwell had been appointed his guardian, and trustee of his property.
"You're one of the false Maxwells?" he said threateningly. "And you're a damned murderer," I retorted, and let out at him with my fists. At that moment I felt a sharp, stinging blow on my temple, and, reeling backward, tripped and fell in a night of stars as it were all of a huddle into the empty grave. Maxwell stopped, looked me directly in the face.
In her good-humour she had forgotten her twinge of jealousy, and did not even inquire with whom he had been wandering so long. But Letty was disappointed of her last day at Castle Luton. For the party broke up suddenly, and by ten o'clock on Monday morning all Mrs. Allison's guests but Lord Fontenoy and the Maxwells had left Castle Luton. It was on this wise.
The Maxwells bowed to some of the ladies who tripped gayly past them in their airy costumes to the surf, or came up from it sobered and shivering. Four or five young fellows, with sun-blackened arms and legs, were passing ball near them. A pony-carriage drove by on the wet sand; a horseman on a crop-tailed roan thumped after it at a hard trot.
They walked in silence a minute or two. "And I think I do," said Mr. Buxton softly. "Eh?" exclaimed Mary, "you do what?" She had quite forgotten her last sentence. "It is no matter," he said yet more softly; and would say no more. Presently the talk fell on the Maxwells; and came round to Hubert. "They say he would be a favourite at Court," said Mary, "had he not a wife.
The Maxwells stared at each other in dismay when they had finished this letter, which Louise had opened, but which they had read together, she looking over his shoulder.
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