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First, she scolded Winifred; 'it was the thing she most wished to avoid, that he should fancy her teased by anything the Meadowses could say, and she laughed, and protested she never was vexed, such absurdity did not hurt her in the least. 'It has tired you, though, said Winifred. 'Lie quite down and sleep.
Kendal that the ups and downs were insufficient for the word him; and each scrawl was discussed as though it had been a cuneiform inscription, until he had been nearly argued into believing in the lesser evil. He then was persuaded that the Meadowses had been harassing and frightening Albinia into this startling measure.
However, I firmly remind myself of that 'one in the eye, and then all my doubts depart. Good-night. Sleep well! You know very well that I should have shirked it if it hadn't been for you!" A little later the Meadowses stood together at the open window of their room, which led by a short flight of steps to a flowering garden below.
Kendal, with a look that was precious to her, though it might have given a pang to the Meadowses. 'I did not imagine that my daughter could be so lost to the sense of your kindness and forbearance. Have you nothing to say, Lucy? 'Poor child! she cannot speak, said her grandmother. 'You see she is very sorry, and Mrs. Kendal is too kind to wish to say any more about it.
Evidently the speaker was much amused by the Meadowses' situation more amused than her sense of politeness allowed her to explain. Doris was conscious of a vague resentment. "I'm afraid I don't see what Lady Dunstable will get out of me," she said, drily. Miss Field raised her eyebrows. "Are you going then to let him come here alone? She'll be always asking you!
Let me add, as a further illustration of the connection of the great poet with the county of Suffolk, that I am informed one of the family of the Meadowses, of Witnesham, was for a time one of his secretaries.
During the weeks that followed the Meadowses' first visit to Crosby Ledgers, Doris's conscience was by no means asleep on the subject of Lady Dunstable.
The only other persons at the tea-table the Meadowses having arrived late were an elderly man with long Dundreary whiskers, in a Panama hat and a white waistcoat, and a lady of uncertain age, plump, kind-eyed, and merry-mouthed, in whom Doris had at once divined a possible harbour of refuge from the terrors of the situation.
'Pray explain to me, Maurice, why, when people become widowed in any unusually lamentable way, they always are the first to marry again. 'Incorrigible. I meant to make you pity him. 'I did, till I found I had wasted my pity. Why could not these Meadowses look after his children! Why must the Colonel bring him here? I believe it was with malice prepense!
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