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"I am dying to know them. I hope they will call." But Sir Tedbury had already chanced to have talked the matter over with John Derringham, because he himself was most anxious to see La Sarthe Chase, which was of deep historical interest, and had incidentally been made aware by that gentleman of the old ladies' views, so he hastily turned the conversation, rather awkwardly, to other things.
"The Minister being a man who knows nothing about all this," thought Caesar, "when he understands that the ideas I expound are those of the celebrated Dupont de Sarthe, will find them wonderful." After having written his letter and taken a little tea, he lay stretched out on a divan, until they brought him word that a young man was asking for Senor Perez Cuesta. "Send him up."
"No does that matter?" "Of course not but what country does he come from?" "You must ask him someday." "I want to see countries," and she stretched out her slender arms, "I want to fly away outside the park and see the world." "You have time," said the old man. "When I am big enough I shall run away I get very tired of only the Aunts La Sarthe. They never understand a word I say."
In old times it contained no considerable town but the capital; and even now, when the old county forms two modern departments, with Le Mans for the chef-lieu of Sarthe and Laval for the chef-lieu of Mayenne, the more modern capital is still far from reaching the size and population of the ancient one.
"I remember them quite well, and their sweet little fawns; but the next winter was that horribly cold one, and there was no hay to be put out to them my Aunts La Sarthe are very poor and some of them died, and in the summer the Long Man came and talked and talked, and Aunt Roberta had red eyes all the afternoon, as she always does when he comes, and Aunt Ginevra pretended hers were a cold in her head and the week after a lot of men arrived and drove all the tender, beautiful creatures into corners, and took them away in carts with nets over them the does but the bucks had pieces of wood because their horns would have torn the nets."
And just before their visitor got up to leave, Miss La Sarthe said with her grand air: "We hope you find your cottage comfortable. It used to be the land steward's, before we disposed of the property we no longer required. It always used to have a very pretty garden, but no doubt it has rather fallen into decay." "I shall do my best to repair it," Mr. Carlyon said, "but it will take some time.
Armies of workpeople were reported to be in possession, and whole train-loads of splendid French furniture were known to have arrived at Applewood, to augment the antique and time-worn pieces which were Wendover's own. Miss Le Sarthe sent for the Long Man. Things had been rather better of late, and no more precious belongings had been forced to be parted with.
Her stepfather, James Anderton, was a very wealthy stockbroker she knew that, and also that a year or so after her mother's death he had married again "a person of his own class," Miss La Sarthe had said, "far more suitable to him than poor Elaine." Halcyone had only been six years old at her mother's death, but she kept a crisp memory of the horror of it.
John Derringham made a point of slipping away on the Easter Tuesday afternoon; he determined to drink tea with the Misses La Sarthe.
He told her all his plans: how he had given notice for the license, and that it would be forthcoming. And he explained that he had chosen Bristol rather than Upminster because in this latter place everyone would know the name of La Sarthe even the registrar's clerk and whoever else they would secure as a witness but in Bristol it might pass unnoticed.
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