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I simply won't let you do it." "But how can I possibly leave you all alone?" Daisy protested. "If the Ratcliffes were at home, I might think of it, but " "That settles it," Muriel announced with determination. "I never heard such nonsense in my life. What do you think could possibly happen to me here? You know perfectly well that a couple of weeks of my own society would do me no harm whatever."
Grange went on with some hesitation. "The little chap doesn't look as if he would ever stand the Indian climate. What will happen? Will she ever consent to leave him with the Ratcliffes?" "I am quite certain she won't," Muriel answered, with unfaltering conviction. "She simply lives for him." "I thought so," Grange said rather sadly. "It would go hard with her if if "
Ah, let me look at it! I think I have seen it before. No, don't take it off! That's unlucky." But Muriel had already drawn it from her finger. "It's beautiful," she said warmly. "Do you know anything about it? It looks as if it had a history." "It has," said Daisy. "I remember now. He showed it to me once when I was staying at his brother's house in England. I know the Ratcliffes well.
Nick watched him with a veiled scrutiny from the depths of his chair. "So that is the verdict," he said at last. Max nodded without speaking. "And how long have you known?" "About a month." "But you knew them before then?" Max looked down at him with a slight gesture that passed unexplained. "As long as I have known the Ratcliffes," he said.
In their show-rooms will be found many very pleasing statues in gold-colour, in bronze, and copies from antique types of vases, lamps, candelabra, etc. Messrs. Salt and Lloyd are also eminent lamp makers, and generally exhibit, beside table-lamps, the last and best carriage-lamps. Messrs. Ratcliffes are another enterprising firm.
After breakfast I examined the carvings of the room. Mr. has added to its decorations the coats of arms of all the successive possessors of the house, with those of the families into which they married, including the Ratcliffes, Stanleys, and others. From the dining-room I passed into the library, which contains books enough to make a rainy day pass pleasantly.
The Earl of Sussex, moreover, was of more ancient and honourable descent than his rival, uniting in his person the representation of the Fitz-Walters, as well as of the Ratcliffes; while the scutcheon of Leicester was stained by the degradation of his grandfather, the oppressive minister of Henry VII., and scarce improved by that of his father, the unhappy Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, executed on Tower Hill, August 22, 1553.
After breakfast I examined the carvings of the room. Mr. has added to its decorations the coats of arms of all the successive possessors of the house, with those of the families into which they married, including the Ratcliffes, Stanleys, and others. From the dining-room I passed into the library, which contains books enough to make a rainy day pass pleasantly.
Among the families who formed the congregation after the war were the Bakers, Balls, Chichesters, Fairfaxes, Fitzhughs, Fergusons, Gunnells, Hunters, Mosses, Ratcliffes, Ryers, Stuarts, Terretts, Towners, Burkes, Coopers, Loves, Rumseys, Moores, Fords, Bowmans, Keiths, Thorntons, Bleights, Moncures, Ballards, and McWhorters.
"Where have you been living since your retirement?" "I took a place in England in the hunting-country quite a decent place." "Ah? Where?" "About two miles from a little town called Weir." Hunt-Goring spoke deliberately, still watching his hostess's slim fingers at work. "Why!" Swiftly Daisy looked up. "That is where the Ratcliffes live Jim Ratcliffe and Olga. Olga is out here now with Nick.
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