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It seems to me quite wonderful that we should be living so near together and nobody suspect the relationship, because of the precautions you have taken. 'Yet the precautions were rather Lady Petherwin's than mine, as you know. Consider how she kept me abroad. My marriage being so secret made it easy to cut off all traces, unless anybody had made it a special business to search for them.
'And you told him, I suppose? 'Yes. 'What made you do that, Cornelia? 'I thought I might: I couldn't help it. When I went through the toll- gate, such a gentlemanly-looking man asked me if he should help me to carry the things to the end of the pier; and as we went on together he said he supposed me to be Mrs. Petherwin's maid. I said, "Yes."
You know what lady's face served as the original to this, I suppose? 'Mrs. Petherwin's, I hear. 'Yes, Mrs. Alfred Neigh that's to be. 'What, that elusive fellow caught at last? 'So it appears; but she herself is hardly so well secured as yet, it seems, though he takes the uncertainty as coolly as possible.
'I shall then go on to Mrs Petherwin's. The carriage was stopped at the corner of a steep incline leading down to the edifice. Mountclere and Chickerel alighted and walked on towards the gates, Sol remaining in his place. Christopher was some way off, descending the hill on foot, having halted to leave his horse and trap at a small inn at the entrance to the village.
Petherwin's family and connections, it is only fair in me, as his nearest relative, to make them clear to him before it is too late. 'You mean that if he knew her friends were working-people he would not think of her as a wife? 'Tis a reasonable thought. But make your mind easy: she has told him. I make a great mistake if she has for a moment thought of concealing that from him.
Why, I can take in plain sewing, and you can do translations, and mother can knit stockings, and so on. How much longer will this house be yours? 'Two years. If I keep it longer than that I shall have to pay rent at the rate of three hundred a year. The Petherwin estate provides me with it till then, which will be the end of Lady Petherwin's term.
But come down from your perch the dining-room door will not be open again for some time and I will show you about the rooms upstairs. This is a larger house than Mrs. Petherwin's, as you see. Just come and look at the drawing-rooms. Wishing much to get rid of Menlove, yet fearing to offend her, Picotee followed upstairs.
'The family here, said a footman in answer to his inquiry, 'are only temporary tenants of the house. It is not Lady Petherwin's people. 'Do you know the Petherwins' present address? 'Underground, sir, for the old lady. She died some time ago in Switzerland, and was buried there, I believe. 'And Mrs. Petherwin the young lady, said Christopher, starting.
Christopher saw Ethelberta Petherwin's performance in this kind the well-known spark of light upon the well-known depths of mystery and felt something going out of him which had gone out of him once before.
'Yes, I got your letter, said Chickerel, 'and I felt I should like to come that I ought to come, to save her from what she'll regret. Luckily, this gentleman, a stranger to me, has given me a lift from Anglebury, or I must have hired. He pointed to Christopher. 'But he's Mr. Julian! said Sol. 'You are Mrs. Petherwin's father?
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