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When I have a decent income of my own, I shall marry a woman with an income somewhat larger, so that casualties may be provided for. Dora exclaimed, laughing: 'It would amuse me very much if the Reardons got a lot of money at Mr Yule's death and that can't be ten years off, I'm sure. 'I don't see that there's any chance of their getting much, replied Jasper, meditatively.
She knew so well how 'people' were talking of him and her. Even her unliterary acquaintances understood that Reardon's last novel had been anything but successful, and they must of course ask each other how the Reardons were going to live if the business of novel-writing proved unremunerative. Her pride took offence at the mere thought of such conversations.
Of necessity, Edwin Reardon used the front room as his study. A maid-servant, recently emancipated from the Board school, came at half-past seven each morning, and remained until two o'clock, by which time the Reardons had dined; on special occasions, her services were enlisted for later hours.
It has always been his greatest wish to have a literary paper of his own like The Study, you know. He would have used the money in that way, I am sure. 'But, all the same, he ought to feel pleasure in your good fortune. Marian turned to another subject. 'Think of the Reardons; what a change all at once! What will they do, I wonder? Surely they won't continue to live apart?
They issued into the street, and walked on together; Milvain, with his keen eye and critical smile, unmistakably the modern young man who cultivates the art of success; his companion of a less pronounced type, but distinguished by a certain subtlety of countenance, a blending of the sentimental and the shrewd. 'Of course you know all about the Reardons? said Whelpdale.
'But for the vast majority of mortals. There's the instance of the Reardons. They were in love with each other, if ever two people were; but poverty ruined everything. I am not in the confidence of either of them, but I feel sure each has wished the other dead. What else was to be expected? Should I have dared to take a wife in my present circumstances a wife as poor as myself?
At Reardon's I always had what was supposed to be the most luxurious seat, but it was too small for me, and I eyed it resentfully on sitting down and rising. 'Have you any news about the Reardons? 'Yes. I am told that Reardon has had the offer of a secretaryship to a boys' home, or something of the kind, at Croydon. But I suppose there'll be no need for him to think of that now. 'Surely not!
Her ambition was to form a circle of distinctly intellectual acquaintances, and she was constantly inviting the Reardons to her house; a real live novelist is not easily drawn into the world where Mrs Carter had her being, and it annoyed her that all attempts to secure Amy and her husband for five-o'clock teas and small parties had of late failed.
'I don't know when the will was made, said Marian. 'And I don't know whether uncle had even heard of the Reardons' misfortunes. I suppose he must have done. My cousin John was at the funeral, but not my aunt. I think it most likely father and John didn't speak a word to each other.
He's the ghost of his old self He can't live long. Dora and her brother exchanged a glance. It was a long time since Jasper had spoken to his sisters about the Reardons; nowadays he seldom heard either of husband or wife. The conversation that went on was so agreeable to Whelpdale, that he lost consciousness of time. It was past eleven o'clock when Jasper felt obliged to remind him.
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