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Updated: June 19, 2025
He pointed out to him the finest pictures; he took him over the woods to show him where the most picturesque scenery lay; he took him to the library and introduced to his notice some of the finest works of art. When they came to compare notes Lord and Lady Ridsdale quite disagreed over Allan.
Rather than let him know, rather than let Lord and Lady Ridsdale know, she will give you thousands of pounds." Allan Lyster for one-half moment shrank from his sister. "It seems so very bad," he said. "Not at all. She will have more money than she can count; you have a right to some of it. Of course, you will never really tell, but why not make what you can out of it?
She idealized every one so completely that she never really understood any one. Lord Ridsdale wondered often what he was to do with this beautiful and gifted girl when her school days were ended. "She must be introduced to the world then," he thought; "and I fervently hope she'll soon be married."
"You must learn to love me," she said, "to look on me in the place of the mother you have lost." And Marion Arleigh for the first time in her life imagined to herself what a mother's love would be like. "What a strange idea to keep you so long at school!" said Lady Ridsdale. "We must do our best to atone for it."
Lady Ridsdale wondered why the beautiful face suddenly grew pale and grave. Half an hour afterwards Marion came timidly to her side. "Lady Ridsdale," she began, in a half-hesitating manner, "of course I never thought such happiness as the marriage of my guardian was in store for me." "I suppose not," was the smiling reply. "I used to think that I should go away from here and be so lonely, so sad.
"There is nothing of the kind," she replied, earnestly. "I do not believe that Miss Arleigh has even begun to think of such things." "So much the worse when she does begin," thought Lady Ridsdale. When the preliminaries had all been discussed, and Miss Arleigh was requested to meet her guardian, Lady Ridsdale could not control her surprise at the sight of the girl's beauty.
Wright and Flint, Vincent and Gillett to Rotha Marion daughter of Rosa and the late George Alfred Gillett, 179 Clapham road, Stockwell, Playwood and Ridsdale at Saint Jude's, Kensington by the very reverend Dr Forrest, dean of Worcester. Eh? Deaths. Bristow, at Whitehall lane, London: Carr, Stoke Newington, of gastritis and heart disease: Cockburn, at the Moat house, Chepstow...
Lady Ridsdale engaged a pretty, quick Parisian as lady's maid; she invited young ladies of her own rank and position to stay at the castle; she obtained every possible enjoyment and pleasure for the girl. This was something like. The hours seemed to fly like golden moments, the very atmosphere was different. Here all was refinement, grace, courtesy and kindness.
Lady Ridsdale, delighted at the excellent match she was about to make, was in the highest spirits. Preparations were begun for the trousseau. Lord Atherton ordered that his mansion, Leigh Hall, should be entirely refurnished.
"Before long Miss Arleigh will be one of the queens of society, heiress of Hanton, and of the large fortune left by her father; we shall have some of the first men in England wooing her. She may be a duchess if she likes." At which intelligence Lord Ridsdale opened his eyes. He had thought of his ward as of a tiresome responsibility, a child of whom the charge would be very troublesome.
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