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Updated: May 6, 2025
'Will your own feeling for the genius of the place allow you? 'I am not a mediaevalist: I am an eclectic. 'You don't dislike your own house on that account. 'I did at first I don't so much now.... I should love it, and adore every stone, and think feudalism the only true romance of life, if 'What? 'If I were a De Stancy, and the castle the long home of my forefathers.
Now I am up and away, when I have explained to them that I shall not require my room. Dare fetched his bag, touched his hat with his umbrella to the captain and went out of the hotel archway. De Stancy sat down in the stuffy drawing-room, and wondered what other ironies time had in store for him. A waiter in the interim had announced Somerset to the group upstairs.
Somerset was, however, introspective enough to know that his morals would have taken no such virtuous alarm had he been the chief male player instead of Captain De Stancy. He passed under the castle-arch and entered. There seemed a little turn in the tide of affairs when it was announced to him that Miss Power expected him, and was alone.
While they were talking somebody was heard in the hall, inquiring hastily for Mr. Havill. 'What shall I tell him? demanded the porter. 'His wife is dead, said the messenger. Havill overheard the words, and hastened away. 'An unlucky man! said Dare. 'That, happily for us, will not affect his installation here, said De Stancy. 'Now hold your tongue and keep at a distance. She may come this way.
'Paula's own mind had nothing to do with it! said Miss De Stancy, warming up to staunch partizanship in a moment. 'It was all undertaken by her from a mistaken sense of duty.
Consider what other great commissions such a work will lead to. 'What great work is this? asked the creditor. 'Stancy Castle, said Dare, since Havill seemed too agape to answer. 'You have not heard of it, then? Those are the drawings, I presume, in the next room? Havill replied in the affirmative, beginning to perceive the manoeuvre.
Meanwhile a telegram had arrived for Captain De Stancy; but as he had not yet returned it was put in his bedroom, with directions to the night-porter to remind him of its arrival. Paula sat on with the sleeping Charlotte. Presently she retired into the adjacent sitting-room with a book, and flung herself on a couch, leaving the door open between her and her charge, in case the latter should awake.
I may add that there is one exception to this absence of feeling from my heart, namely, that I do derive great satisfaction from seeing how mightily this young woman has grown and prevailed. This address, though delivered nominally to Somerset, was listened to by Paula, Mrs. Goodman, and De Stancy also.
'I shall be there in half-an-hour. 'Very well, said Paula. She looked out of a window, and, seeing Miss De Stancy on the terrace, left him. Somerset stood thinking of what he had said. He had no occasion whatever to go into the chapel of the castle that day. He had been tempted by her words to say he would be there, and 'half-an-hour' had come to his lips almost without his knowledge.
'No, ma'am. She looked again at the card. 'This is some man of business, I suppose does he want to see me? 'Yes, miss. Leastwise, he would be glad to see you if Miss Power is not at home. Miss De Stancy left the room, and soon returned, saying, 'Mr. Somerset, can you give me your counsel in this matter? This Mr.
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