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Wilmot, aware of whom the lady did disapprove, dug holes in the turf, and wondered what she herself ought to do. Supposing Mrs. Devereux went on Monday, ought not she ? Now, she didn't at all want to go just now. At luncheon Ingram proposed a visit to certain Sowerbys of Sowerby, and pointedly asked Mrs. Devereux to come. "You like her, you know. It's beyond dispute. So I do hope you'll come.
Well, look here, I'm at a loose end again. Nevile's taken 'em out driving to a tea-party to the Sowerbys. I jibbed, though I was asked. I lied, because they drove me into a corner. I couldn't face old Sowerby's chin and all those gels with their embroidered curates what? You know what I mean. I mean their church-work, and the curates they do it for.
If we had known that Alice was to be with the Sowerbys this week-end, my wife would certainly have put Kitty off. It would be uncommonly awkward if they were to meet here for instance. Hullo! Is it getting late?" For the whist-players at the end of the library had pushed back their chairs, and men were strolling back from the billiard-room.
The Sowerbys, for many generations, have been rangers of the Chace of Chaldicotes, thus having almost as wide an authority over the Crown forest as over their own. But now all this is to cease, for the forest will be disforested.
"But, do you know, Lady Kitty " he struck into a new subject with eagerness, partly to cover the girl, partly to silence Lady Grosville "you reminded me all the time so remarkably in your voice certain inflections of your sister your step-sister, isn't it? Lady Alice? You know, of course, she is close to you to-day just the other side the park with the Sowerbys?"
At the present moment he felt in his mind an infinite hatred against the duke, Mr. Fothergill, Gumption & Gazebee, and all the tribes of Gatherum Castle and South Audley Street; they wanted to rob him of that which had belonged to the Sowerbys before the name of Omnium had been heard of in the county, or in England! The great leviathan of the deep was anxious to swallow him up as a prey!
"Grosville told you the story last night." Ashe nodded. "Well Kitty wrote to Alice this morning and they met. Alice has kept her room since prostrate so the Sowerbys tell me. I have just had a note from Mrs. Sowerby. Wasn't it an extraordinary, an indelicate thing to do?" Ashe studied the frowning lady a moment so large and daunting in her black silk and white lace.
He had been for many years a medical man practising in a little village in the further end of the county; but it had come to be his fate, late in life, to marry a great heiress, with whose money the ancient house and domain of Chaldicotes had been purchased from the Sowerbys.
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