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Updated: June 7, 2025
"You leave Windygates, in this lovely weather?" "Most unwillingly! The truth is, Mrs. Delamayn, I am at my step-daughter's mercy. Her uncle has the authority, as her guardian and the use he makes of it is to give her her own way in every thing.
It's a shame of her to want to keep the only decent jewel we have shut up. Amy gets more selfish every day." "But you will put it back before she misses it?" Mrs. Coombe could see her step-daughter's face quite plainly and its expression made her wince, but she was reckless to-night. After all, why pretend?
He was not a little surprised to see his step-daughter's face appear among the honeysuckle vines that crept over the iron trellis of the balcony: "Monsieur," she said in her most melodious tone, "are you very busy?" "Oh, not at all!" he replied, rising at the same time. "It's because, you see, the weather is perfectly delightful," she said. "Will you come and take a walk with me?"
As the days and weeks grew into months, the step-mother began to treat the motherless girl unkindly and to try and come between the father and child. Sometimes she went to her husband and complained of her step-daughter's behavior, but the father knowing that this was to be expected, took no notice of her ill-natured complaints.
And when she was constrained once or twice in the year to give a dinner to her step-daughter's husband and Lady Ushant, that, I think, was really a period of discomfort to her. When at Bragton she could at any rate be quiet, and Mary's caressing care almost made the place pleasant to her. Mr. Runciman prospers at the Bush, though he has entirely lost his best customer, Lord Rufford.
Lance laughed at the magniloquent thanks, and asked how the intimation had been received. It appeared that on the previous evening O'Leary had come to him, and, in swaggering fashion, had demanded twenty pounds as payment for his step-daughter's performance at the masque. Mr. Flight had replied that she had freely promised her services gratuitously for the benefit of the object in view.
"He is anxious about money matters," she had said to herself, "and he is anxious about Charlotte's health. His lips, moving in whispered calculations, as he sits brooding by the fire, tell me of the first anxiety; his eyes, wandering furtively to his step-daughter's face every now and then, tell me of the second." This furtive anxiety of Mr.
She grew a little more cheerful after this, and met her father at diner with quite a placid face, though it was still very pale. Mrs. Darrell looked at her wonderingly, and with a half-contemptuous expression, I thought, as if this passion of her step-daughter's seemed to her a very poor thing, after all. Before the week was out, we heard that Mr. Egerton had left Yorkshire.
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