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If I had not been obliged to go to Princedown, I would have asked you to let me pass Easter at Hainault myself." On this very afternoon, when Myra, who had been walking in Regent's Park with her brother, returned home, she found Adriana agitated, and really in tears. "What is all this, dearest?" inquired her friend.
This mysterious but universal sickness of a single root changed the history of the world. "There is no gambling like politics," said Lord Roehampton, as he glanced at the "Times," at Princedown; "four cabinets in one week; the government must be more sick than the potatoes." "Berengaria always says," said Lord Montfort, "that you should see Princedown in summer.
When Endymion arrived in London he found among his letters two brief notes from Lady Montfort; one hurriedly written at Montfort Castle at the moment of her departure, and another from Princedown, with these words only, "All is over." More than a week had elapsed since the last was written, and he had already learnt from the newspapers that the funeral had taken place.
"I perceive then," he replied, "that I am going to die, because I am disobeyed." These were the last words he uttered. He turned in his bed as it were to conceal his countenance, and expired without a sigh or sound. There was not a single person at Princedown in whom Lady Montfort could confide.
Princedown was situate in a southern county, hardly on a southern coast, for it was ten miles from the sea, though enchanting views of the Channel were frequent and exquisite. It was a palace built in old days upon the Downs, but sheltered and screened from every hostile wind.
One of the most beautiful and considerable estates in that favoured part of our country was virtually in the market, and Lord Montfort, at the cost of half a million, became the proprietor of Princedown. And here he announced that he should dwell and die. This state of affairs was a bitter trial to the proudest woman in England, but Lady Montfort was also one of the most able.
Such a humiliating state of affairs had induced his lordship, on the very first occasion, to expend half a million of accumulations, which were at his own disposal, in the purchase of Princedown, which certainly was a very different residence from Montfort Castle, alike in its clime and character.
If his mind for a moment quitted the contemplation of Lady Montfort, it was only to encounter the recollection of a heart-rending separation from his sister, and his strange and now perplexing relations with Adriana. Lord Montfort had passed the summer, as he had announced, at Princedown, and alone; that is to say, without Lady Montfort.
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