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Updated: May 14, 2025
For any one, with a five-shilling pair of boots to terminate in, might skip dry-footed across the sandy purlings of the rivulet. And only when a flood came down, or the head of some springtide came up, did any but playful children tread the lichened cracks of the stepping-stones. And nobody knew this better than Horatia Dorothy Darling.
They were all great people, at least in name; and the heiress of the Purlings was heard to murmur that she did like to be in such good society she felt so perfectly at home. And they all made much of her. One night she was handed in to dinner by a Duke, another by an ex-Cabinet Minister.
Purling could find no fault with her son. She might resent the staid sober-mindedness of his conduct; but she was perforce compelled to confess that he was a dear good son, affectionate, devoted, considerate; and there was much solid comfort in the thought that the good name of the Purlings, as well as their substantial wealth, could be safely intrusted to his hands.
Is the reward worth taking, I wonder?" For a moment she held him at bay. "Suppose I were to refuse you now at the eleventh hour? It is for you to sue. I am not what I was. Mrs. Purling calls me the heiress of the Purlings, and we may not consider Mr. Gilbert Jillingham a very eligible parti." "You dare not refuse me, Phillipa," said Gilly very seriously.
Purling, "heiress of the Purlings"; imperious, emphatic, self-opinionated, as women become who have had their own way all their lives through. "But, mother," went on Harold, her only son like herself, large and broadly built; but, unlike her, quiet and rather submissive in manner, as one who had been habitually kept under "I am really in earnest. I am absolutely sick of doing nothing."
Long before the hour of reception she might have been seen pacing to and fro with stately splendour, contemplating the daïs erected for royalty at one end of the room, and thinking with a glow of satisfaction that the representative of the Purlings had at last come to her own. At this supreme moment she was grateful to dear Phillipa and to Gilbert little less dear. Then guests began to pour in.
He might mate with a duke's daughter; and after such an alliance who would presume to question the social rights of the Purlings? It was therefore her chief and greatest desire to make a man of fashion of her son. Her purse was long he might dip into it as deep as he pleased.
Besides, she calls me her dear daughter already." "And would adopt you, doubtless, if the cub were got out of the way. Yes, it can be done, I believe, and you can do it, Phillipa, if you please. Only persuade the old lady to make you the heiress of the Purlings, and there will be an end to your troubles and mine." Soon after this conversation Miss Fanshawe returned to Purlington.
Lying down to rest, I ask myself the reason of the singular emotion inspired by that simple peasant-chorus. Utterly impossible to recall the air, with its fantastic intervals and fractional tones as well attempt to fix in memory the purlings of a bird; but the indefinable charm of it lingers with me still.
Not to anybody, of course, he must be on his guard against foreign intriguing sirens, who would entangle him if they could, but to some lady of rank and fashion, fitted by birth and breeding to be the mother of generations of Purlings yet to be. This was the condition she annexed to forgiveness of the past; this the text upon which she preached in her letters week after week.
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