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The young heir was brought up with every caution, and, under the auspices of his grandmother and her family, behaved himself very unlike the old Mortons. He was educated at Eton, after leaving which he was at once examined for Foreign Office employment, and commenced his career with great eclat.
Don't forget what my dear father said about cats: 'Open the door! Tell Maurice you want him to go off with the Mortons!" Of course Eleanor told him nothing of the sort. But she was obliged, at Green Hill, to watch him "going off" with Edith. "I should think," she said once, "that Mrs. Houghton wouldn't want her to be wandering about with you, alone." "Perhaps Mrs.
"Indeed," replied the husband, "I thought, the moment I saw her that she looked like the Mortons." "I am sure I never saw two faces more alike in my life, than that girl's and Jane Morton's," continued Mrs. Taylor. Dr.
Then he stood at the window and watched Johnny and Edith, with fishing rods and lunch basket, disappear down the road into the fog. He was too bored to be irritated; he only counted the hours until he could get back to Mercer, and the office, and the table under the silver poplar. "I'll get hold of the Mortons, and Hannah can give us some sort of grub, and then we'll go to a show," he thought.
The Rollstones were considered as beneath the dignity of the Mortons, but Herbert had loudly insisted on inviting Rose for the evening and had had his way, but after all she would not come.
Although he realized that he could scarcely hope to obtain even a scanty description of the sender of the telegram from the main office, he determined to go there. First, however, he walked back toward the Mortons' apartment, and going up the steps of the brownstone house adjoining, rang the doorbell. A neat maid-servant opened the door.
He was the son of an innkeeper's daughter, and according to her theory of life, should never even have been noticed by the real Mortons. And this honourable old lady was almost equally adverse to Lady Ushant, whose husband had simply been a knight, and who had left nothing behind him.
Just before dinner, one evening, as she sat alone in the drawing-room, Christian entered with a look which portended some strange announcement. He spoke abruptly: 'I have heard something astonishing. 'What is that? 'This afternoon I went to the matinee at the Vaudeville, and found myself among a lot of our friends the Walworths and the Hunters and the Mortons.
Twentyman is a fit companion for any of the Mortons, but for all that he may be a fit companion for me, and my sisters." Surely she must have said this with the express object of declaring to him that in spite of the advantages of her education she chose to put herself in the ranks of the Twentymans, Runcimans and such like.
The term of his probation with the tutor was abridged, and Arthur Beaufort was sent at once to Oxford. Before he went to the university, during a short preparatory visit to his father, Arthur spoke to him of the Mortons. "What has become of them, sir? and what have you done for them?" "Done for them!" said Mr. Beaufort, opening his eyes.
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