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Wanley is his; the personal property will be divided among several. 'The people have not come forward? 'We presume they do not even know of Mr. Mutimer's death. There has been no direct communication between him and them for many years. Hubert's next question was, 'What shall you do, mother? 'Does it interest you, Hubert? I am too feeble to move very far.
A little after dark, when the bell was ringing which summoned Mutimer's workpeople to the tea provided for them, Hubert Eldon was approaching the village by the road from Agworth: he was on foot, and had chosen his time in order to enter Wanley unnoticed.
Cowes had introduced the subject which a considerable number of those present were bent on publicly discussing. Who it was that had first spread the story of Mutimer's matrimonial concerns probably no one could have determined.
Mutimer's face exhibited the dawning of intelligence, an unwrinkling here and there, a slight rounding of the lips. 'Why, what of him? she asked in an undertone, leaving a needle unthreaded. 'The old man's just dead. Agitation seized the listener, agitation of a kind most unusual in her. Her hands trembled, her eyes grew wide. 'You haven't heard anything of him lately? pursued Richard. 'Heard?
On the track of cunning Mutimer's mind was keen enough; only amid the complexities of such motives as sway a pure heart in trouble was he quite at a loss. This confession of untruthfulness might on the face of it have spoken in Adela's favour; but his very understanding of that made him seek for subtle treachery.
Though she no longer saw Mutimer's character in the same light as when first she bent her nature to his direction, she still would have attributed to him a higher grief than the merely self-regarding; she had never suspected him of insincerity in his public zeal.
If she fled and hid herself in some other part of London, how was life to be supported? But there were graver obstacles. Openly to flee from her husband was to subject herself to injurious suspicions it might be, considering Mutimer's character, to involve Hubert in some intolerable public shame.
The son of a lord and an ironmaster of great influence were the serious candidates. Had he seen fit, Mr. Wyvern could have mentioned not a few lively incidents in the course of the political warfare; such, for instance, as the appearance of a neat little pamphlet which purported to give a full and complete account of Mutimer's life.
'I really cannot promise, mother, to give special attention to Mr. Mutimer's hands. Mrs. Waltham glanced at the girl, who had laid down a book she was trying to read, and, with lowered eyes, seemed to be collecting herself for further utterance. 'Why are you so prejudiced, Adela? 'I am not prejudiced at all. I have no interest of any kind in Mr. Mutimer.
He became a Socialist because his friend Dick was one; when that was no longer a reason, he numbered himself among the followers of Comrade Roodhouse first as a sort of angry protest, against Mutimer's private treachery, then again because he had got into the habit of listening to inflammatory discourses every Sunday night, and on the whole found it a pleasant way of passing the evening.
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