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Updated: May 27, 2025
I'll tell you what it is, Maude, you'll have to shake your husband out of no end of ridiculous habits." "It is growing dark," exclaimed Maude, as she stepped into the corridor. "Dark! of course it's dark," was the irascible answer; "and they have had to light up the chapel, or Priddon couldn't have seen to read his book. And all through those confounded fox-hunters!"
Lord Hartledon was not in the drawing-room, where Lady Kirton had left him only a minute before; and she looked round sharply. "Has he gone on to the chapel?" she asked of the young clergyman. "No, I think not," replied Mr. Priddon, who was already in his canonicals. "Hedges came in and said something to him, and they went out together."
She was resplendent in one of her old yellow satin gowns, a white turban with a silver feather, and a pink scarf thrown on for ornament. The colours would no doubt blend well by candlelight. "Come, Maude. There's no time to be lost." "Are the men gone?" "Yes, they are gone; no thanks to Hartledon, though. He sat mooning on, never giving them the least hint to depart. Priddon told me so.
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