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The only time she betrayed herself was just before the arrival of the guests, when her mind reverted to her daughter. "The Portmans are giving a ball next week, Arthur, and I want Corinne to go. Are you sure he is coming?" "Don't worry, Kitty, Portman's coming; and so are the Colonel, and Crossbin, and Hodges, and the two Chicago directors, and Mason, and a lot more.
The neighbouring mansion of Hestercombe, once the possession of the Warres, but now belonging to the Portmans, is said to preserve a sword taken by one of the Warres from King John of France at Poitiers. Kingston Seymour is a village about 2 m. W. of Yatton, with a halt on the Clevedon and Weston light railway.
A perusal of the register shows that in Wadham both of the great parties in Church and State were represented. There were represented also all classes of society, from Dymokes, Herberts, Russells, Portmans, Strangways, to the humblest plebeiorum filii, a fact which proves the falsity of the assertion made forty years ago, that Oxford was once a place for "gentlemen only."
"If anybody inquires for me you will find me either on this floor or in the library above. Don't forget, and don't make any mistake. "No, suh ain't goin' to be no mistake." This done, the old gentleman moved to the mirror, and gave a sidelong glance at his perfectly appointed person he had been dining at the Portmans', had left the table early, and was in full evening dress.
"They say he goes everywhere, and that Mr. Grayson has adopted him and is going to leave him all his money," to which Breen had grunted back that Jack was welcome to the Portmans and the Portmans to Jack, and that if old Grayson had any money, which he very much doubted, he'd better hoist it overboard than give it to that rattlebrain. Mrs. Breen heaved a deep sigh.
If he only could bring Mary to his level, so that Christine might no longer be so arrogantly proud of the blood that came through the Portmans. He drove himself at last into such a condition of hatred for all that was good and noble that he would have hailed with joy the positive proof that his wife had been untrue to him! All day long he had been singularly abstemious.
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