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She begged her cousin's forgiveness for past unkindness, told her that she had left her the savings of her lifetime though the main part of the estate passed to Mr. Beck's nephew and besought Mrs. Shelton, as her only relation, to follow her to her grave. Young Mr. Beck, the said nephew, who wrote the letter, added that the house should be kept up for Mrs.
His wife, Miss Shelton, died in 1775, leaving him the father of six children, and in 1777 he married Dorothea, daughter of Nathaniel W. Dandridge. After the expiration of his gubernatorial service he retired to his estate in Henry County. He was elected to the General Assembly for that County in 1780, and he continued to represent it until after the revolution.
They played high and recklessly; and after little more than an hour, Shelton and Leroy had lost over five hundred pounds. "A close run, eh, Shelton?" laughed Leroy as he took the notes from an open drawer. "Had they played the knave we should have won. Time for another round?" "Not I," replied his friend, with a regretful shake of his head. "I'm due at Lady Martingdale's."
There was no longer any doubt; it was not of Ferrand that they were afraid, but of what they did not understand in him; of horrid subtleties meandering in the brain under that straight, wet-looking hair; of something bizarre popping from the curving lips below that thin, lopsided nose. But to Shelton in this, as in all else, Antonia was what mattered.
The youth wished to decrease it as much as he could because of the darkness, so as to run no risk of missing his aim. It may not sound poetical, but it is only simple fact that with the sight of the buck unconscious of his danger the dominant emotion of the Shawanoe was a sense of ravening hunger. It was a long time since he had partaken of food and his appetite was worthy of Victor Shelton.
Dennant, of whom he asked this question, lifted his brows, and said, "Ask Shelton." "Half Dutch, half French." "Very interesting breed; I hope I shall see him again." "Well, you won't," said Thea suddenly; "he's gone." Shelton saw that their good breeding alone prevented all from adding, "And thank goodness, too!" "Gone? Dear me, it's very " "Yes," said Mr. Dennant, "very sudden."
"They are both admirable," she murmured; and this encomium on the absent Richard gratified Bessie. "I don't think they are to be compared," observed Mrs. Sefton, rather superciliously. "My dear Miriam, Neville is infinitely superior. Richard has not got Neville's brains." "Cleverness is not everything," replied Miss Shelton. "I respect Mr.
Lyda, eldest daughter in the Shelton family, gathered her little sisters about her, quieting their clamours while her mother wrung her hands and said over and over again, "To happen when your papa was getting on so nicely!" Lyda resolved that she would put all thoughts of marrying out of her head. She would have to stop keeping company with Ned Backus, the hardware man's son.
"I have lived a great many years in the world," she said, "but I have never seen two better young men than Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Richard." They were sitting round the fire in the twilight as Miss Shelton made this little speech; they had come in from their drive half an hour ago; the tea things had just been taken away, and Edna was sitting on the rug at Miss Shelton's feet.
I never parts from that"; and fumbling, he produced a packet, holding first one paper to the light, and then another, and he looked anxiously at Shelton. "In that house where I been sleepin' they're not honest; they 've stolen a parcel of my things a lovely shirt an' a pair of beautiful gloves a gentleman gave me for holdin' of his horse. Now, would n't you prosecute 'em, sir?"
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