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Updated: May 3, 2025
'They went in a mad bargain of my father with his visitor, as they sat over their wine. My father sat down as host on that occasion, and arose as guest. He seemed to speak with such a courteous absence of regret for the alienation, that Paula, who was always fearing that the recollection would rise as a painful shadow between herself and the De Stancys, felt reassured by his magnanimity.
In spite of the family likeness and other details he could scarcely believe this frank and communicative country maiden to be the modern representative of the De Stancys. 'O yes, they certainly are, she said, laughing. 'People say I am like them: I don't know if I am well, yes, I know I am: I can see that, of course, any day.
De Stancy was the chief mourner and only relation present, the other followers of the broken-down old man being an ancient lawyer, a couple of faithful servants, and a bowed villager who had been page to the late Sir William's father the single living person left in the parish who remembered the De Stancys as people of wealth and influence, and who firmly believed that family would come into its rights ere long, and oust the uncircumcized Philistines who had taken possession of the old lands.
Oddly enough, the curiosities and pictures of the castle which belonged to the De Stancys are not restricted from sale; they are hers to do what she likes with. Old Power didn't care for articles that reminded him so much of his predecessors. 'Hey? said Dairyman Jinks, turning back again, having decided that the conversation on his right hand was, after all, the more interesting.
'Thank you kindly, captain. Well, since you have spoken plainly, I will do the same. We De Stancys are a worn-out old party that's the long and the short of it. We represent conditions of life that have had their day especially me. Our one remaining chance was an alliance with new aristocrats; and we have failed. We are past and done for.
Bidding them a temporary farewell, he went away to Markton by a shorter path than that pursued by the De Stancys, and after spending the remainder of the afternoon preparing for departure, he sallied forth just before the dinner-hour towards the suburban villa. He had become yet more curious whether a Mrs. De Stancy existed; if there were one he would probably see her to-night.
In a short time he had drawn near to the painting of the ancestor whom he so greatly resembled. When her quick eye noted the speck on the face, indicative of inherited traits strongly pronounced, a new and romantic feeling that the De Stancys had stretched out a tentacle from their genealogical tree to seize her by the hand and draw her in to their mass took possession of Paula.
Of the De Stancys pure there ran through the collection a mark by which they might surely have been recognized as members of one family; this feature being the upper part of the nose. Every one, even if lacking other points in common, had the special indent at this point in the face sometimes moderate in degree, sometimes excessive.
You know that the pictures and curiosities of the castle are not included in the things I cannot touch, or impeach, or whatever it is. They are our own to do what we like with. My father felt in devising the estate that, however interesting to the De Stancys those objects might be, they did not concern us were indeed rather in the way, having been come by so strangely, through Mr.
'No, I have not forgotten it, she said, still looking into the pew. 'But, I have a predilection d'artiste for ancestors of the other sort, like the De Stancys. Her hand was resting on the low pew next the high one of the De Stancys.
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