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"I'll tell yo' where soom on us might goa, Muster Faversham," said another older man, removing the pipe he had been stolidly smoking; "theer's two farmhouses o' Melrose's, within half a mile o' this place shut oop noabody there. They're big houses yan o' them wor an' owd manor-house, years agone. A body might put oop five or six families in 'em at a pinch.
Presently, on an impulse he could not resist, he told her of the offer which had been made to him. Lydia's embroidery dropped on her lap. "Mr. Melrose's agent!" she repeated, in wonder. "He has offered you that?" "He has on most generous terms. Shall I take it?" She flushed a little, for the ardent deference in his eyes was not easy to ignore. But she examined his news seriously kindling over it.
It was one thing for Grace to put up with such quarters when she shared them with Fulmer; but to live there while he basked in the lingering radiance of Versailles, or rolled from chateau to picture gallery in Mrs. Melrose's motor, showed a courage that Susy felt unable to emulate. "My dear!
Tatham and his mother met the doleful procession at the chapel. Lady Tatham, very pale and queenly, walked hand in hand with a slight girl in mourning. As the multitude outside the churchyard caught sight of the pair, a thrill ran through its ranks. Melrose's daughter, and rightful heiress disinherited, and supplanted by the black-haired man standing bareheaded behind the coffin.
After luncheon they got into the motor together and began a systematic round of the West End shops: furriers, jewellers and dealers in old furniture. Nothing could be more unlike Violet Melrose's long hesitating sessions before the things she thought she wanted till the moment came to decide.
The estate would have sunk, more and more lamentably, into the power of a certain low attorney who has been Melrose's instrument in all his worst doings for years and of a pair of corrupt clerks in the local office. Who would have gained? Not a soul! On the contrary, much would have been lost. Heaven knows I have been able to do little enough. But I have done something!
Faversham standing tall and silent, amid the show of majolica, bowed to her formally, and Victoria slightly acknowledged the greeting. It seemed to her that Melrose's foraging eyes travelled maliciously between her and the agent. "Mr. Faversham and I only unpacked a great part of this stuff yesterday," said Melrose, with much apparent good humour.
To realize the strength of the popular feeling, as it presently revealed itself, was to look shuddering into things elemental. It was first made plain on the day of Melrose's funeral.
Melrose's room, her casual mention of tea, her appreciative little phrases as she introduced to Marion and Doris the young lady who picked out books for Aunt Alice, had all helped to crush out the vaguely hostile impulse Norma Sheridan had toward rich little members of a society she only knew by hearsay.
They won't come to the rectory. There's nothing for them there. But look round the table: look at the diamonds: look at old Lady Melrose's necklace alone!" The Dowager Marchioness of Melrose was one of the few persons whom it had been unnecessary to point out to me.
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