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'What was that about a telephone message, Jean darling? The girl glanced at the paper, and then quite suddenly said to Lady John 'Aunt Ellen, I've got to go to London! 'Not to-day! 'My dear child! 'Nonsense! 'Is your grandfather worse? 'N no. I don't think my grandfather is any worse. But I must go, all the same. 'You can't go away, whispered Mrs. Heriot, 'when Mr. Stonor
'Penny for your thoughts, she demanded with such suddenness that Jean Dunbarton started and reddened. 'Something very weighty, to judge from 'I believe I was thinking it was rather odd to hear two men like my uncle and Mr. Stonor talking about the influence of the Suffrage women really quite seriously. Oh! she clutched Mrs. Freddy's arm, laughing apologetically 'I beg your pardon. I forgot.
That young gentleman was far too anxious and flurried himself, to have sufficient detachment of mind to consider the moods of other people. 'At last! he said, stopping short as soon as he caught sight of Stonor. 'Don't speak loud, please, said Miss Dunbarton; 'some one is resting in the next room. 'Oh, did you find your grandfather worse? but he never waited to learn.
'On the fence. He nodded. 'Tories one side, Socialists the other. Well, it ain't always so comfortable in the middle. No. Yer like to get squeezed. Now, I says to the women, wot I says is, the Conservatives don't promise you much, but wot they promise they do. He whacked one fist into the other with tremendous effect. 'This fellow isn't half bad, Stonor said to Lady John.
'Ah! Lady John shook her head. 'Mr. Stonor inspires a similar enthusiasm in so many young 'They haven't studied the situation as I have. He sat down to explain his own excellence. 'They don't know what's at stake. They don't go to that hole Dutfield, as I did, just to hear his Friday speech. 'But you were rewarded. My niece, Jean, wrote me it was "glorious."
So ending, Thomas Betson smiled, dropped a kiss on the seal and inscribed his letter, 'To my faithful and heartily beloved cousin Katherine Riche at Stonor, this letter be delivered in haste. Henceforth there begins a charming triangular correspondence between Betson and Stonor and Dame Elizabeth Stonor, in which family news and business negotiations are pleasantly mingled.
On March 10, 1480, he acknowledged obligations of £2,835 9s. 0d. to Stonor, and in 1482 he still owed £1,200. It is impossible to guess why the relationship, which was an affectionate personal friendship as well as a business tie, should have come to such a sudden end.
The Liberal chap tore down from London, and took over your meeting. 'Oh? Nothing about it in the Sunday paper I saw. 'Wait till you see the press to-morrow! There was a great rally, and the beggar made a rousing speech. 'What about? 'Abolition of the Upper House. 'They were at that when I was at Eton. Stonor turned on his heel.
Ibid., App. I., pp. xlix-lii, a very interesting note on contemporary coinage, identifying all the coins mentioned in the letters. Ibid., p. 159. Ibid., p. 161. Stonor Letters, II, p. 43. So Dame Elizabeth Stonor ends a letter to her husband: 'Written at Stonor, when I would fain have slept, the morrow after our Lady day in the morning, Ibid., p. 77.
Where a less complex man would have brought in, if not the menace of a storm, at least an intimation of masterfulness that should advertise the uselessness of opposition, Stonor brought a subtler ally in what, for lack of better words, must be called an air of heightened fastidiousness mainly physical. Man has no shrewder weapon against the woman he has loved and wishes to exorcise from his path.
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