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When they reached home, the Countess and Dorothy were still absent from the neighbouring Fernell Hall, but in a month or two they returned, and a little later Sir Ashley Mottisfont came into his wife's room full of news. 'Well would you think it, Philippa! After being so desperate, too, about getting Dorothy to be with her! 'Ah what? 'Our neighbour, the Countess, is going to be married again!
'How very strange it was about the little girl! the Contessa said to Lady Mottisfont, in her gay tones. 'I mean, that the child the lawyer recommended should, just before then, have been adopted by you, who are now my neighbour. How is she getting on? I must come and see her. 'Do you still want her? asks Lady Mottisfont suspiciously. 'Oh, I should like to have her! 'But you can't!
At the western end of this ridge, and about three miles up the Test from Mottisfont, are the villages of Horsebridge and King's Somborne on the southern confines of what was once John of Gaunt's deer park.
There had been a previous arrangement that Dorothy should be brought to the house on a visit that day, but instead of taking her up to his wife, he did not inform Lady Mottisfont of the child's presence. He entertained her himself as well as he could, and accompanied her into the park, where they had a ramble together. Presently he sat down on the root of an elm and took her upon his knee.
Lady Mottisfont expressed her surprise and interest at the probability of having such a neighbour. 'Though, if I had been born in Italy, I think I should have liked to remain there, she said. 'She is not Italian, though her husband was, said Sir Ashley. 'Oh, you have heard about her before now? 'Yes; they were talking of her at Grey's the other evening.
It is to somebody she has met in London. Lady Mottisfont was much surprised; she had never dreamt of such an event. The conflict for the possession of Dorothy's person had obscured the possibility of it; yet what more likely, the Countess being still under thirty, and so good-looking? 'What is of still more interest to us, or to you, continued her husband, 'is a kind offer she has made.
They knew the names of every bird and tree not exceptionally uncommon, and could foretell the weather almost as well as anxious farmers and old people with corns. One day Sir Ashley Mottisfont received a letter, which he read, and musingly laid down on the table without remark. 'What is it, dearest? asked his wife, glancing at the sheet. 'Oh, it is from an old lawyer at Bath whom I used to know.
The season drew on when it was the custom for families of distinction to go off to The Bath, and Sir Ashley Mottisfont persuaded his wife to accompany him thither with Dorothy. Everybody of any note was there this year.
'I thought it might be that, he answered, regarding her steadfastly back again, and observing two tears come slowly into her eyes as she heard her own voice describe Dorothy in those words. 'Don't criticize me, she said hastily; and recovering herself, went on. 'If Lady Mottisfont could take her back again, as I suggested, it would be better for me, and certainly no worse for Dorothy.
Springing across, she snatched Dorothy from under the wall, and pulled the nurse after her, the middle of the way being barely reached before they were enveloped in the dense dust of the descending mass, though not a stone touched them. 'Where is Dorothy? says the excited Lady Mottisfont. 'She has her she won't let her go for a time 'Has her? But she's mine she's mine! cries Lady Mottisfont.
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