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Newhaven was looking up from below with an "enchanted" smile the word is Trix's own; I should probably have used a different one. Was then the curate of Poltons utterly defeated brought to his knees, only to be spurned? It seemed so; and he came down to dinner that night with a subdued and melancholy expression.
"I'll give him your message." "No, sir, not now, I thank you. The villain!" "You are right," said I. "I think your mother ought to have scolded him, too." "Now you promised, sir " but Joe came up, and I escaped. It was, I believe, mainly as a compliment to me that Miss Audrey Liston was asked to Poltons.
This time the promise was forgotten, and the widow forsaken. Then Mrs. Wentworth put on her armor. We had, in fact, reached this very absurd situation that these two ladies were contending for the favors of, or the domination over, such an obscure, poverty-stricken, hopelessly ineligible person as the curate of Poltons undoubtedly was.
The next development in the situation was this: My cousin Dora received a letter from the Marquis of Newhaven, with whom she was acquainted, praying her to allow him to run down to Poltons for a few days; he reminded her that she had once given him a general invitation; if it would not be inconvenient and so forth.
She was in the habit of describing herself as an "authoress in a small way." She was very diligent; she worked from ten to one every day while she was at Poltons; how much she wrote is between her and her conscience. There was another impeachment which Miss Liston was hardly at the trouble to deny. "Take my characters from life!" she would exclaim.
The position seemed to me then, and still seems, to indicate some remarkable qualities in that young man. At last Newhaven made a move. At breakfast, on Wednesday morning, he announced that, reluctant as he should be to leave Poltons Park, he was due at his aunt's place, in Kent, on Saturday evening, and must therefore make his arrangements to leave by noon on that day.
Newhaven was looking up from below with an 'enchanted' smile the word is Trix's own: I should probably have used a different one. Was then the curate of Poltons utterly defeated brought to his knees, only to lie spurned? It seemed so: and he came down to dinner that night with a subdued and melancholy expression.
Fate was kind to Miss Liston, and provided her with most suitable patterns for her next piece of work at Poltons itself. There were a young man and a young woman staying in the house Sir Gilbert Chillington and Miss Pamela Myles. The moment Miss Liston was apprized of a possible romance, she began the study of the protagonists.
There are, as I have said, great qualities in the curate of Poltons, but I have not quite made up my mind precisely what they are. I ought, however, to say that Dora takes a more favorable view of him and a less lenient view of Trix than I. That is perhaps natural. Besides, Dora does not know the precise manner in which the curate was refused.
No; what won my heart from an early period of my visit to my cousins, the Poltons, of Poltons Park, was the fervent, undisguised, unashamed, confident, and altogether matter-of-course manner in which he made love to Miss Beatrice Queenborough, only daughter and heiress of the wealthy shipowner, Sir Wagstaff Queenborough, Bart., and Eleanor, his wife.
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