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Plaistow Hall was already odious to him, and he longed to be back at Belton, which he had left only that morning. Yes, on that very morning she had brought to him his coffee, looking sweetly into his face so sweetly as she ministered to him. And he might then well have said one word more in pleading his suit, if he had not been too awkward to know what that word should be.
But yet, yet ! As for going to Plaistow, that was quite out of the question. 'So you are to be the heiress after all, said Mrs Askerton to her that night in her bedroom. 'No; I am not to be the heiress after all, said Clara, rising against her friend impetuously. 'You'll have to be lady of Belton in one way or the other at any rate, said Mrs Askerton.
'There's altogether, outside the palings and in, about a hundred and fifty acres of it. I'll give you one pound two and sixpence an acre, and I won't cut an acre of grass inside the park no, nor much of it outside either only just enough to give me a little fodder for the cattle in winter. 'And give up Plaistow Hall? asked Clara. 'Lord love you, no.
I'm sure our dear hostess told her all about her adventures at the Palace." There was only seven minutes left before the tram started, and though this was not a perfect opening, it would have to do. Besides, the Major saw Mrs. Plaistow coming energetically along the High Street with whirling feet.
Then she remembered that Frederic had not spoken to her a single word since she had been under his father's roof. What sort of welcome would have been accorded to her had she chosen to go down to Plaistow Hall? At half-past seven she made her way by herself downstairs. In this there was some difficulty, as she remembered nothing of the rooms below, and she could not at first find a servant.
"Plaistow is working the Colonial Office, the Beltons are feeling their way in the city; Wirsch but you know how the thing is done! I've got them down here that they may work it quietly, that I may have them under my eye " "And the lords and ladies they're to have a finger in the pie because, though they can't help you in the African business, they can in the matter of the peerage?"
But with all this, our already crowded river is becoming overcrowded, to remedy which a promising project is afoot for a new dock at Plaistow Marshes, a few miles below London Bridge, where a fleet or two of the ever-multiplying ships may find accommodation. The extent is to be ninety acres, with a mile of wharfage, and nearly 200,000 feet of fireproof warehouse-room.
By this time Isabel Poppit had advanced as far as the fish shop three doors below the turning down which Mrs. Plaistow had vanished. Her prancing progress paused there for a moment, and she waited with one knee highly elevated, like a statue of a curveting horse, before she finally decided to pass on.
Plaistow that some women can wear a wonderful gown and others ha!" "Dear Major Benjy," said she. "Cruel of you to poor Diva." But instantly her happiness was clouded again, for the Padre had a very ill-inspired notion. "What ho! fair Madam Plaistow," he humorously observed to Miss Mapp. "Ah! Peccavi! I am in error. It is Mistress Mapp. But let us to the cards!
'Indeed, Miss Belton! And is he coming? said Colonel Askerton. 'So you have heard from Plaistow? said Mrs Askerton. 'Yes in answer to your letter. No, Colonel Askerton, my Cousin William is not coming. But his sister purposes to be here, and I must go up to the house and get it ready. 'That will do when the time comes, said Mrs Askerton. 'I did not mean quite immediately.
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