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Updated: July 14, 2025
However, perhaps from having a station and dignity of her own, together with great simplicity, Lady Merrifield had from her first arrival got on so well with her hostess as not quite to enter into Jane's sarcastic descriptions of her efforts at cordiality; and it was with real warmth that Lady Rotherwood begged for Mysie as a permanent companion and adopted sister to Phyllis, who was to be taken back to London after Easter, and in the meantime spent every possible moment with her cousins.
'There is nothing sufficiently exciting at home, if Grosvenor Square is to be called home. 'Sometimes you do it without knowing it, said Lily. 'Yes, said Claude, 'when you do not exactly know what you are going to say. 'Then it is no bad plan, said Lord Rotherwood. 'People are satisfied, and you don't commit yourself.
"I should not have thought a sleepy little place like Rotherwood would have overtaxed his energies," observed Malcolm in rather a surprised tone. The elder man shook his head. "There is always work enough if one looks for it. My son is a sort of medical missionary in his way, and concerns himself with the bodies as well as the souls of his people.
'And I thought you had promised, said Gillian. 'Cousin Rotherwood assumes that I did; but I did not really accept. I told him I could not tell, for you know your Grandmamma Merrifield talked of coming here, and I cannot put her off. And now I see that it must be given up. 'It need only be calico! sighed Gillian, sticking pins in and out of the pincushion.
He employed about five hundred men, and they were as much his thralls as were Gurth and Wamba of Cedric of Rotherwood, only they wore no engraved collars around their necks bearing their names and that of their master. Maxwell was not a hard governor, and his people really loved him, as he was ever their friend and adviser.
'It is very hard that poor Emily should bear all the blame, said Lily. 'You have managed to escape it very well, said Jane, laughing. 'You have all the thanks and praise. I suppose it is because the intimacy with Miss Weston was your work. 'I will not believe that nonsense, said Lily. 'Seeing is believing, they say, said Jane. 'Remember, it is not only me. Think of Rotherwood.
"She is your niece, your family have bred her up, made her so much more than exquisitely lovely." "She is a good little girl," said Clement, "but what are we? No, Ivinghoe, I do not blame you for speaking out, and she will be the happier for the knowledge of your affection, but it will not be right of us to give free consent, without being fully assured of that of Lord and Lady Rotherwood."
'Indeed! has the great Captain relented? 'Yes. Is it not good of him? Aunt Rotherwood is so much pleased that he consents to go entirely to oblige her. 'Sensible of his condescension, said Claude. 'By the bye, what makes the Baron look so mischievous? 'Mischievous! said Emily, looking round with a start, 'he is looking very comical, and so he has been all the evening. 'What?
'Oh yes! it was all papa's doing that he was sent to Eton. Papa is his guardian. Aunt Rotherwood never would have parted with him. 'He is the only son, interposed Emily.
The holidays arrived, and with them the three brothers, for during the first few weeks of the Oxford vacation Claude accompanied Lord Rotherwood on visits to some college friends, and only came home the same day as the younger ones.
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