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Why, she was only a child a girl seventeen eighteen years old.... In a moment of amazement when I recognized your wife as an old schoolmate I blurted the thing out to Radford. You see now how little it matters to me when I ask your stepdaughter's hand in marriage for my son." Belding stood listening. The genuine emotion in Chase's voice was as strong as the ring of truth.
Lady Palliser clung to her stepdaughter in her widowhood with a still warmer affection than she had shown during her husband's lifetime. Ida was her adviser, her strong rock, her resource in all difficulties and perplexities, social or domestic. Nor would she allow her stepdaughter or her stepdaughter's husband to share the expenses of housekeeping at Wimperfield.
Charlotte's theory of a generous manner was manifestly to express that her stepdaughter's word, wiping out, as she might have said, everything, had restored them to the serenity of a relation without a cloud. It had been, in short, in this light, ideally conclusive, so that no ghost of anything it referred to could ever walk again.
Vincent couldn't help smiling at his stepdaughter's horrified look. "What a brute you are, Adelaide!" he said. "Oh, my dear, you're much worse," she retorted. "You don't have to overhear. You just read the human heart by some black magic of your own. That's really more cruel than my gross methods."
Indeed, since that interview in which Philip Sheldon had made so light of his stepdaughter's chances, and ratified his consent to her marriage with so humble a literary adventurer as himself, Mr. Hawkehurst had come to consider the Haygarthian inheritance as altogether a visionary business.
I remembered THAT" she nodded at the object on her stepdaughter's head "and I've brought you one with a peacock's breast. It's the most gorgeous blue!" It was too strange, this talking with her there already not about Sir Claude but about peacocks too strange for the child to have the presence of mind to thank her.
"Where's Clarence, Rachael?" "I haven't the remotest idea, my dear woman," said Mrs. Breckenridge frankly, yet with a warning glance at the back of her stepdaughter's head. Billy was at the wheel. "He didn't dine at home last night " "But we knew where he was," Billy said quickly, half turning. "We knew where he was," agreed the older woman. "Watch where you're going, Bill!
"Yes; I wrote to him immediately after the ceremony, enclosing him a copy of the certificate." "The marriage will make a considerable difference to him." "In what manner?" "Well, in the event of his stepdaughter's death. If she had died unmarried and intestate, this fortune would have gone to her mother; besides which, there was the insurance on Miss Halliday's life." "An insurance!" "Yes.
He no longer tried to conceal his agitation. It was a part of his duty to be agitated by the news of his stepdaughter's untimely death. "O, sir, you may well be sorry," said the Yorkshirewoman, with deep feeling. "She was the sweetest, most forgiving creature that ever came into this world; and to the last no hard or cruel word ever passed her innocent lips.
Afterward, they said it was astounding that she had been able to go back to the Works that night. She must have been in very intense pain. When she came home, the pain conquered to the extent of sending her, at midnight, up to her stepdaughter's room; she was red with fever, and her eyes were glassy. "Got any laudanum, or stuff of that kind?" she demanded.
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