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'Yes, said Maude, 'but then there's always some tremendously nice boy- cousin, or uncle, or something, that makes up for it all. Will Sir Jasper Merrifield's eldest son be a Sir? 'Oh no; he's not a baronet, but a G.C.B., Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, that is. Besides, I don't care for love, and titles, and all that nonsense, though father is first cousin to Lord Rotherwood.
"And this," he said, looking at the seal, "is the crest of the Merrifield's the demi lion. I know it well on Sir Jasper's seal ring." "Have you nothing else, Angel?" asked Lance. "Here is the certificate of her baptism, but that will tell you nothing." No more it did, it only called the child the daughter of Henry and Caroline Field, and the surname was omitted in the bequest.
Indeed, there was more anger in Lady Merrifield's tone than her niece had yet heard, and as there was no making out that there was the least injury to the girl, she was forced to walk home, in spite of all Miss Hacket's protestations and refusals, which had nearly ended in her exposing herself to the same peril as Dolores, only that Lady Merrifield fairly pushed her in and shut the door on her.
'I did think at first that you knew, said Kalliope, 'and when I found that was not the case, I suppose I should have insisted on your being told; but I could not bear to seem ungrateful, and my brother took such extreme delight in his lessons and Miss Merrifield's kindness, that -that I could not bear to do what might prevent them.
Jane Mohun suspected that she had on her ferret look, and guessed that Gillian's disgusted air meant that the idea of her turning over Lady Merrifield's drawers was almost as distasteful as that of the governess's doing it. 'Suppose Gillian goes down on Monday with Fanny, she said. 'She could manage very well, I am sure. Gillian cleared up a little.
With her family and connections, she would be a match for any one. 'I hope so, said Sir Jasper; 'but at the same time it would not be well for her to look on such a marriage as the means of continuing the habits that would have become second nature. 'Poor Mysie, exclaimed Lord Rotherwood, bursting out laughing at the idea, and at Lady Merrifield's look as she murmured, 'My Mysie!
But her guardian trembled at hearing that, pending Captain Merrifield's correspondence with Brisbane, the sisters, Susan and Elizabeth, were coming to Miss Mohun's to see their niece, there being no room for them at Clipstone.
'You are my great help, Jenny. 'And must you go? 'Yes, certainly. 'Without waiting to hear more? 'There is no use in losing time. I cannot cross from Folkestone till the day after to-morrow, at night. I must go to London to-morrow, and sleep at Mrs. Merrifield's. 'But this does not seem to me so very bad.
Also she saw her aunt give a little start, and put it aside, and when she demanded. 'Is there no letter for me? Lady Merrifield's answer was, None, my dear, from Miss Sefton. Hot indignation glowed in Dolores's cheeks and eyes, more especially as she perceived a look pass between the two aunts.
Henderson sent it to her to read, saying that it was by Lady Merrifield's advice, since she thought that it should be known how it was with Gerald, for even to Dolores he had not told half what Ludmilla related.
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