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Updated: June 27, 2025
Why on earth should Marcia take this morbid and extravagant interest in the affairs of such people? They were not even tenants of the Coryston estates! It was monstrous that she should have taken them up at all, and most audacious and unbecoming that she should have tried to intercede for them with the Newburys, as she understood, from her daughter's hardly coherent story, had been the case.
I tried to get him to realize this horrible affair the part the Newburys had played in it the effect on you since that poor creature appealed to you. But no not a bit of it! He seems to have neither eyes nor ears But here he is!" Sir Wilfrid and Marcia stepped apart. Arthur came into the hall from the library entrance.
A slight smile played round the Dean's flexible mouth. He was a new-comer, and much more of an Erastian than Lord William approved. He had been invited, not for pleasure, but for tactics; that the Newburys might find out what line he was going to take in the politics of the diocese. "We were never told," said the Dean, "that a woman's foes were to be those of her own household!"
Meanwhile, though the pride of the Newburys concealed the fact as much as possible, not only from Marcia but from each other, the dilemma on the horns of which John and Alice Betts had found themselves impaled, was being eagerly, even passionately discussed through the whole district.
Which perhaps accounted for the feeling of irritation with which she perceived the figure of her daughter standing on the steps of Coryston House beside Sir Wilfrid Bury. Marcia had come to her that morning with some tiresome story about the Newburys and the divorced woman Mrs. Betts. How could she think of such things, when her mind was full of Arthur? Girls really should be more considerate.
But the young man showed no signs whatever of doing or suggesting anything further to help his sister. Sir Wilfrid perceived at once how Marcia's narrative might be turned against the Newburys, round whom the hostile feeling of a whole neighborhood was probably at that moment rising into fury. Was there ever a more odious, a more untoward situation!
From them rose a few hisses and groans as the Newburys passed. But other groups represented the Church Confraternities and clubs of the Newbury estate. Among them heads were quietly bared as the old man went by, or hands were silently held out. Even a stranger would have realized that the scene represented the meeting of two opposing currents of thought and life.
Why, that man that fellow, John Betts" he pointed to the Hoddon Grey woods on the edge of the plain "whom the Newburys are driving out of his job, because he picked a woman out of the dirt just like these Christians! John Betts knows more about land in his little finger than Glenwilliam's whole body!
There's a deal to learn in this neighborhood the Hoddon Grey estate, for instance " Coryston threw up his hands. "The Newburys my word, the Newburys! 'Too bright and good' aren't they? 'for human nature's daily food. Such churches and schools and villages! All the little boys patterns and all the little girls saints.
The spaces of the somewhat empty room matched the bareness of the white linen, the few flowers standing separately here and there upon it, and the few pieces of old silver. The absence of any loose abundance of food or gear, the frugal refined note, were of course symbolic of the life lived in the house. The Newburys were rich.
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