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"Madge, something troubles you," her lover said, anxiously. "Yes, Jack. I I received an anonymous letter at noon. Mrs. Sedgewick forwarded it to me. Oh, it is shameful to speak of it " "An anonymous letter? There is nothing more vile or cowardly! Did it concern me?" "Yes." "And spoke badly of me?" "It didn't say anything good." "I wish I had the scoundrel by the throat!
For some time Captain Sedgewick and his companions went along a footpath under the shelter of the trees, and then emerged upon a wide stretch of smooth turf, across which they commanded a perfect view of the principal front of the old house. It was a quadrangular building of the Elizabethan period, very plainly built, and with no special beauty to recommend it to the lover of the picturesque.
I have never seen a woman whose face impressed me so much at first sight as the face of your friend, Miss Nowell." "I am very sorry for that." "But why, Belle?" "Because the girl is a nobody less than nobody. There is an unpleasant kind of mystery about her birth." "How is that? Her uncle, Captain Sedgewick, seems to be a gentleman."
Lister with a profound sigh; "I should have thought as much. And you are really going to marry a girl with this disreputable mystery about her belongings?" "There is nothing either disreputable or mysterious. People are sometimes lost sight of in this world. Mr. Nowell was a bad husband and an indifferent father, and Captain Sedgewick adopted his daughter; that is all."
"I will na stand it any longer I'll run away!" Kit Sedgewick laughed ironically. "And when the skies fall we'll catch sparrows, Nick Attwood," said he. "Whither wilt thou run?" Stung by his tone of ridicule, Nick out with the first thing that came into his head. "To Coventry, after the stage-players," said he, defiantly. The whole crowd gave an incredulous hoot. Nick's face flushed.
Sir Lucius and Jack had a long talk about that and other matters, and in the afternoon they went together to the house at Strand-on-the-Green, and left messages of sympathy for Miss Foster; she was too prostrated to see any person, Mrs. Sedgewick informed them. Three days later, after the burial of Stephen Foster, Jack returned alone.
He left word with Mrs. Sedgewick that he would not be back until late. I was sure he would go to your studio." "I have not seen him," replied Jack; "but I hope he will come. If he doesn't I shall call on him and ask for your hand, and without delay. It is the only honorable course.
I suppose even you have not been told who her father and mother were." "I know quite enough about them. Captain Sedgewick has been candour itself upon the subject." "And are the father and mother both dead?" "Miss Nowell's mother has been dead many years." "And her father?" "Captain Sedgewick does not know whether he is dead or living." "Ah!" exclaimed Mrs.
Captain Sedgewick rang a bell hanging by the side of one of these gates, whereat there arose a shrill peal that set the rooks screaming in the tall elms overhead.
There was a dinner-party at Lidford House during the second week of Gilbert's acquaintance with these new friends, and Captain Sedgewick and his adopted niece were invited. "They are pleasant people to have at a dinner-party," Mrs. Lister said, when she discussed the invitation with her husband and brother; "so I suppose they may as well come, though I don't want to encourage your folly, Gilbert."
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