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There was a reality in the tone of sorrow in which this was spoken which melted him at once, and the more so in that there was so much in her grief which could not but be flattering to his vanity. "Do not say that, Lady Ongar," he exclaimed. "But I do say it. What have I got in the world that is worth having? My possessions are ever so many thousands a year and a damaged name." "I deny that.
To-morrow is Saturday you was to remain till Tuesday." "You may do as you please. I will go at eight to-morrow." "Very well. You go at eight, very well. And who will pay for the 'beels' when you are gone, Lady Ongar?" "I have already ordered the bill up to-morrow morning. If you will allow me to offer you twenty pounds, that will bring you to London when you please to follow." "Twenty pounds!
Harry had already communicated his intention of coming down; and Lady Ongar had replied to Mrs.
For the English character, in spite of the pigheadedness of many Englishmen, he had as he would have said himself much admiration, and he thought that the life of a country gentleman, with a nice place of his own with such a very nice place of his own as was Ongar Park and so very nice an income, would suit him well in his declining years.
"I had hoped," continued Lady Ongar, without noticing what was said to her, "I had hoped to make every thing straight by giving his money to another. You know to whom I mean, and so does Hermy. I thought, when I returned, that, bad as I had been, I might still do some good in the world. But it is as they tell us in the sermons. One can not make good come out of evil.
"His name is Pateroff. He is a Pole, but he speaks English like an Englishman. In my presence he told Lord Ongar that he was false and brutal. Lord Ongar laughed, with that little, low, sneering laughter which was his nearest approach to merriment, and told Count Pateroff that that was of course his game before me. There, Harry, I will tell you nothing more of it.
The thing to be done now was to bring Harry and Florence together, and since such terrible dangers were intervening to make them man and wife with as little further delay as might be possible. The name of Lady Ongar was odious to her. When men went astray in matters of love, it was within the power of Cecilia Burton's heart to forgive them; but she could not pardon women that so sinned.
Whatever assistance Lady Ongar might have been willing to afford, she now feels that she is prohibited from giving any by the allusion which Madam Gordeloup has made to legal advice. If Madam Gordeloup has legal demands on Lady Ongar which are said by a lawyer to be valid, Lady Ongar would strongly recommend Madam Gordeloup to enforce them. Clavering Park, October, 186 .
There could be no question of renewed vows between them now; there could have been no such question even had there been no "glorious love," which had accrued to him almost as his normal privilege, in right of his pupilage in Mr. Burton's office. No; there could be, there could have been, nothing now between him and the widowed Countess of Ongar.
"Ah," said the little Franco-Pole, with an expression of infinite delight on her detestable visage, "ah, my dears, is it not well that I thus announce myself?" "No," said Lady Ongar, "it is not well. It is anything but well." "And why not well, Julie? Come, do not be foolish. Mr. Clavering is only a cousin, and a very handsome cousin, too. What does it signify before me?"
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