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"He's grumpier than ever," she said to this niece, who was no other than Sabina Meldreth, now paying a visit on business principles of indefinite duration to her aunt's abode in Camden Town; "and I did think that you'd melted him a bit last week, Sabina! But he's as close as wax! Let's sit down to our tea before it gets black and bitter, as he won't come."
Meldreth added to her occupations that of sick-nurse, and that she had been in attendance on Mrs. Vane at the time of the young Squire's birth. It was natural that Mrs. Vane should be on more intimate terms with her than with any other of the village women. Mrs. Meldreth was not an interesting person in the eyes of the world at large.
'Miss Meldreth, he said, 'I'm sorry to have troubled you, for I really don't think I want any more tea' and then he yawned fit to take his head off 'and I'm going to lie down on the sofa to get a little rest, for I am so uncommonly drowsy." "That seems a little sudden," said Mrs. Vane thoughtfully. "Are you sure that he did not suspect anything?" "No, ma'am I don't think so.
Goodness, gentleness, youth supporting age, beauty unabashed by feebleness and ugliness these were the characteristics of the scene on which he looked. Poor Mrs. Meldreth lay back upon her pillows, her face wan and worn, her eyes wandering, her gray hair escaping from her close cap and straying over her forehead. But beside her knelt Enid Vane.
As for Andrew Westwood, he seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth; and some of the authorities at Scotland Yard went so far as to say that the report made to them of his discovery must have been either an illusion of the fancy or pure invention on the part of Sabina Meldreth and Mrs. Vane. Enid's conscience was not at rest. During her interviews with Mr.
I wish I had taken your advice earlier. That woman Meldreth suspects me. For aught I know, I am already watched and followed. There is not a moment to lose. If I mean to escape, I'd better get out of the country as fast as I can or find some snug corner where I can lie close until they have left off looking for me. There is a cab a four-wheeler. Let us get into that, and we can talk as we go.
I don't think you'll ever make anything of him" for Miss Meldreth had begun to harbor matrimonial designs on the unconscious Mr. Reuben Dare. "I'm not so sure," said Sabina. "Once get a man by himself, and you can do a' most anything with him, so long as there's no other woman in the way." "And is there another woman in the way?" "Yes, aunt Eliza, there is." "You don't say so!" exclaimed Mrs.
She expected to meet a trained nurse only, and the Jenkins Sabina Meldreth and the doctor perhaps beside, but no one else. She set forth at an hour which would enable her to reach the house when Hubert was likely to be up at least, if he were able to leave his bed. She did not know what she was going to say to him what line she was about to take.
He knew Sabina Meldreth by name only, and had not derived a very pleasant impression of her from all that he had heard. She had once been an under-housemaid at the Hall, but had been dismissed for misconduct of what sort nobody could exactly say, although much was hinted at which the gossips did not put into words and had left the village soon afterwards.
Never, the Rector thought, had he seen a lovelier picture of youth ministering to the wants of age. But a sense of incongruity also struck him, and he turned rather quickly to Miss Meldreth, whose defiant eyes had been fixed upon him from the first moment of his entrance into the room. "You are Mrs. Meldreth's daughter?" he said, in a quick but not unkindly undertone.
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