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When he found himself unable to eat at luncheon, she allowed that he was not fit for the meeting, but demurred when he declared that he should go home at once that afternoon to let Mary nurse his cold. The instinct of getting back to wife and home were too strong for Bertha to contend with, and he started, telegraphing to Northmoor to be met at the station.
All this, and that most precious possession at home, combined to give Lord Northmoor an amount of spirit and life that enabled him to take his place in the county, emancipate himself from the squire, show an opinion of his own, and open his mouth occasionally. As Bertha observed, no one would ever have called him a stick if he had begun like this.
Mary came with her husband and boy from Northmoor for the farewell. When Ida tearfully asked her forgiveness, the injury was so entirely past that it was not hard to say, in the spirit of Joseph 'Oh, my poor child, do not think of that! No one has suffered from it so much as you have.
Was that his name? said Lady Northmoor languidly. 'Oh! that would be delicious, cried Constance, 'and Ida has grown much more thoughtful lately, so perhaps she would do for a clergyman's wife. 'Is Ida better? asked her aunt, who had been much drawn towards the girl by hearing that her health had suffered from grief for Michael.
And thus Lord Northmoor came home a good deal fagged, and shocked by the interior he had seen at Rotherhithe, but quite triumphant.
'Not quite formally, but they understood one another, and were waiting for a favourable moment with old Lord Northmoor, who was not easy to deal with, and it was far from being a good match anyway. We all thought, I believe, that the drive was the fault or rather the folly of Captain Alder, and Arthur was too ill to explain unconscious at first then not rousing himself.
Never had he had such a rest before from toil, care, and anxiety as in those months in the dry, bracing air, and it was the universal remark that Lord Northmoor came back years younger and twice the man he had been before, with a spirit of cheerfulness and enterprise such as had always been wanting; while as to his wife, she was less strong than before, but there was a certain peaceful, yet exulting happiness about her, and her face had gained wonderfully in sweetness and expression.
The sight of the clergyman and the other gentleman alarmed her, and she began by maundering out 'I am sure, sir, I don't know nothing. My daughter have never writ one line to me. 'He was with her! gasped out Lord Northmoor. 'I am sure, sir, it was none of my doing, no, nor my daughter wouldn't neither, only the young lady over persuaded her. 'Tis she as was the guilty party, as I'll always say.
Morton interfered, 'It would never do to have them say at Northmoor that "Lady Morton's" gift had been spoilt by their meddling with it. Constance was glad, though she suspected that Lady Adela would never have found it out.
It was Lord and Lady Northmoor, formally announced, and as formally introduced, to Mrs. Bury. They had come, the lady said, when they were seated, with a message from 'Old Swan, to ask for a bit of my lady's plaster for his back to ease his rheumatism at night. His daughter was only just come in from work, so they had ventured to bring the message. 'Is any one coming for it?
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