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Since they had come to Princhester Lady Ella had changed very markedly. She seemed to her husband to have gained in dignity; she was stiller and more restrained; a certain faint arrogance, a touch of the "ruling class" manner had dwindled almost to the vanishing point.
Princhester had made her think abundantly, and had put a new and subtler quality into her beauty. It had taken away the least little disposition to rustle as she moved, and it had softened her voice. Now, when presently she stood in the study, she showed a new circumspection in her treatment of her husband. She surveyed the tray before him. "You ought not to drink that Burgundy," she said.
At the base of it all is a slight and subtle kidney trouble, due I suggest to your going to Princhester and drinking the local water " "But it's excellent water. They boast of it." "By all the established tests. As a matter of fact many of our best drinking waters have all sorts of unspecified qualities. Burton water, for example, is radioactive by Beetham's standards up to the ninth degree.
Partly because she demanded it, and there was a quality in her demand that had touched some hidden spring of vanity perhaps it was in him, that made him respond. But partly also it was because after the evacuation of the palace at Princhester he had felt more and more, felt but never dared to look squarely in the face, the catastrophic change in the worldly circumstances of his family.
"And your wife married you I remember, she married you soon after you got that living in St. John's Wood. I suppose she took it for granted that you were fixed in an ecclesiastical career. That was implicit in the transaction." "I haven't looked very much at that side of the matter yet," said the Bishop of Princhester. "It shouldn't be a decisive factor," said Bishop Likeman, "not decisive.
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