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Pope, "Essay on Man." About five miles from Kynaston Hall, as the crow flies, across the fields, stood, as the house-agents would have described it, "a large and commodious modern mansion, standing in about eighty acres of well-timbered park land." I do not know that any description that could be given of Shadonake would so well answer to the reality as the above familiar form of words.
Pryme, however, is evidently not a keen sports-man; he has declined the offer of a mount which Guy Miller has hospitably pressed upon him, and he has also declined to avail himself of his host's offer of the services of the gamekeeper. Curiously enough, another guest at Shadonake, whose zeal for hunting has never yet been impeached, has followed his example.
The consequence was that, instead of reaching Shadonake comfortably at half-past six in the afternoon, Lady Kynaston had to wait for the next train. She ate her dinner alone, in London, at the Midland Railway Hotel, and never reached her destination till half-past nine on the night of the ball. Before she had half completed her toilette the guests were beginning to arrive.
She shall see you and judge for herself. I am not the least afraid of her not liking you when she knows you; and you will love her." By this time they had wandered away from the house through the belt of shrubbery, and had emerged beyond upon the margin of the pool of water. Vera stood still, suddenly struck with the sight. "Is this Shadonake Bath?" she asked, below her breath.
It was now nearly two months since the ball at Shadonake; and, soon after that eventful visit, Vera had begun to be employed in preparing for her wedding-day, which had been fixed for the 27th of February; for Sir John had taken Mrs. Romer's hint, and had pressed an early marriage upon her. Vera had made no objection; what objection, indeed, could she have found to make?
"It is the Shadonake carriage!" cried Vera, casting a terrified glance behind her. "Who can it be? they will see me." "Jump into the train," he answers, hurriedly, and, without a thought beyond an instinct of self-preservation for the moment, she obeys him. Maurice follows her quickly, closing the carriage door behind him. "Nobody can have seen you," he says.
"Let us go on," said Vera, and they began to walk. Once again in the days that were to come those three stood side by side upon the margin of Shadonake Bath. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar. Shelley. Mrs. Macpherson had brought up her daughters with one fixed and predominant idea in her mind.
Her grandfather dead; his fortune hers; and this offer of a home at Kynaston, which Maurice himself would be sure to like so much everything good seemed coming to her at last. And there was something about the idea of living at Kynaston that gratified her particularly. Helen had not forgotten the week at Shadonake.
Everybody helped themselves, with much chattering and laughter, and there was a pleasant sense of haste and excitement, and a charming informality about the proceedings, which made the Shadonake Hunt breakfast, which Tom Esterworth had been prevailed upon by his niece's entreaties to allow, a thorough and decided success.
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