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The Regent had, indeed, with his well-known good nature, offered a baronetcy to hide the stain; but pride forbade, and the Mercerons now held no titles, save the modest dignity which Charlie's father, made a K.C.B. for services in the North-West Provinces, had left behind him to his widow.
That happened every evening, according to the legend, an hour after sunset every evening, for the last two hundred years, since poor Agatha, bereft and betrayed, had found the Pool kinder than the world, and sunk her sorrow and her shame and her beauty there such shame and such beauty as had never been before or after in all the generations of the Mercerons.
He thought the same himself, for that night at dinner he came in late for dinner he maintained the credit of the story with fierce conviction against Mr. Vansittart Merceron's scepticism. In old days the Mercerons had been great folk. They had held the earldom of Langbury and the barony of Warmley.
From the Mercerons of the Court it was gone for ever, and the blot on their escutcheon which lost it them was a sore point, from which it behooved visitors and friends to refrain their tongues.
It might be natural that, her hereditary connection with the Mercerons being disclosed, Mr. Vansittart should discourse of Langbury Court, of the Pool, and of Agatha Merceron; but was it necessary that Victor Sutton should chime in with the whole history of the canoe and Miss Bushell, or joke with Mr.
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