Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 13, 2025
And more than this, he was conscious of a growing desire to see the infatuated man himself. Every day during the brief interval before the wedding, he looked in at the club, on the chance of hearing some news. Nothing had happened, so far as the club knew. The Countess's position was secure; Montbarry's resolution to be her husband was unshaken.
They were polite enough to ask if I could account for Lord Montbarry's writing to me and sending me the money. I gave them my opinion directly I said it was like his lordship's kindness. 'Like his lordship's kindness? Mr. Troy repeated, in blank amazement. 'Yes, sir! Lord Montbarry knew me, like all the other members of his family, when I was at school on the estate in Ireland.
'This is the very person, she said, 'whom your lawyer thought likely to help him, when he was trying to trace the lost courier. 'You don't mean the English maid who was with Lady Montbarry at Venice? 'My dear! don't speak of Montbarry's horrid widow by the name which is my name now. Stephen and I have arranged to call her by her foreign title, before she was married.
The mail of that night would appeal once more to Montbarry's remembrance of her in the choice of a servant. Two days later, the post brought a few grateful lines from Emily. Her husband had got the place. Ferrari was engaged, for six months certain, as Lord Montbarry's courier. After only one week of travelling in Scotland, my lord and my lady returned unexpectedly to London.
But one other servant accompanied the travellers Lady Montbarry's maid, rather a silent, unsociable woman, so far as Emily had heard. Her ladyship's brother, Baron Rivar, was already on the Continent. It had been arranged that he was to meet his sister and her husband at Rome. One by one the dull weeks succeeded each other in the life of Agnes.
But where is the proof that any one of these circumstances is associated suspiciously and directly associated with the only event which concerns us, the event of Lord Montbarry's death? In the absence of any such proof, and in the face of the evidence of two eminent physicians, it is impossible to dispute the statement on the certificate that his lordship died a natural death.
Miss Haldane met this difficulty with a suggestion, which could only have proceeded from a judgment already disturbed by the ravages of the tender passion. 'Why can't his father and mother go and see him at Lord Montbarry's? she asked. 'Sir Theodore's place is only thirty miles away, and Lady Barville is Lord Montbarry's sister. They needn't stand on ceremony.
Agnes steadily refused to listen, and positively forbade any further conversation relating to Lord Montbarry's wife, now that Lord Montbarry was no more. 'You have Mr. Troy to advise you, she said; 'and you are welcome to what little money I can spare, if money is wanted. All I ask in return is that you will not distress me.
The last new novel lay neglected on the table. Arthur followed Miss Haldane into the garden. The next day he wrote home, enclosing in his letter a photograph of Miss Haldane. Before the end of the week, Sir Theodore and Lady Barville arrived at Lord Montbarry's, and formed their own judgment of the fidelity of the portrait.
All that she had read of the hidden and sinister life in the palace at Venice; all that she had heard of Montbarry's melancholy death and burial in a foreign land; all that she knew of the mystery of Ferrari's disappearance, rushed into her mind, when the black-robed figure confronted her, standing just inside the door.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking