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Raunham, 'I should advise your asking in a straightforward way for legal proof from the steward that the present woman is really his original wife a thing which, to my mind, you should have done at the outset. He turned to Cytherea kindly, and asked her what made her give up her husband so unceremoniously.
'And he is a magistrate, said Owen in a tone of concurrence. He thought, too, that no harm could come of confiding in the rector, but there was a difficulty in bringing about the confidence. He wished that his sister and himself might both be present at an interview with Mr. Raunham, yet it would be unwise for them to call on him together, in the sight of all the servants and parish of Carriford.
'And Miss Cytherea was now Manston's widow and only relative, and inherited all absolutely. 'True, she did. She waived her right in favour o' Mr. Raunham. Now, if there's a man in the world that d'care nothen about land I don't say there is, but if there is 'tis our pa'son. He's like a snail. He's a-growed so to the shape o' that there rectory that 'a wouldn' think o' leaven it even in name.
'DEAR MISS GRAYE, Miss Aldclyffe is ill, though not dangerously. She continually repeats your name, and now wishes very much to see you. If you possibly can, come in the carriage. Very sincerely yours, JOHN RAUNHAM. 'How comes she ill? Owen inquired of the coachman. 'She caught a violent cold by standing out of doors in the damp, on the night the steward ran away.
'I cannot try any further, said Manston speciously to the rector, his sole auditor throughout the proceedings. 'Mr. Raunham, I'll tell you the truth plainly: I don't love her; I do love Cytherea, and the whole of this business of searching for the other woman goes altogether against me. I hope to God I shall never see her again. 'But you will do your duty at least? said Mr. Raunham.
He wished he was dead, he said, and he's almost out of his mind wi' wishen it so much. That was before Mr. Raunham came. 'Who is he? said Owen. 'Joseph Chinney, one of the railway-porters; he used to be night-porter. 'Ah the man who was ill this afternoon; by the way, he was told to come to the Old House for something, but he hasn't been.
Manston's wife who else can she be? she said simply. 'An improper woman of the name of Anne Seaway. Mr. Raunham had, in common with other people, noticed the extraordinary interest of Miss Aldclyffe in the well-being of her steward, and had endeavoured to account for it in various ways.
'I will consider, then, said Mr. Raunham, sensibly moved. He turned his horse's head, bade them a warm adieu, and left the door. The rector of Carriford trotted homewards under the cold and clear March sky, its countless stars fluttering like bright birds. He was unconscious of the scene.
Raunham he's a relation by marriage yet she's quite distant towards him. And people say that if she keeps single there will be hardly a life between Mr. Raunham and the heirship of the estate. Dang it, she don't care. She's an extraordinary picture of womankind very extraordinary. 'In what way besides? 'You'll know soon enough, miss. She has had seven lady's-maids this last twelvemonth.
'I think that argument is overthrown, Graye said, 'by my earliest assumption of her hatred of him, weariness of the chain which bound her to him, and a resolve to begin the world anew. Let's suppose she has married another man somewhere abroad, say; she would be silent for her own sake. 'You've hit the only genuine possibility, said Mr. Raunham, tapping his finger upon his knee.
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