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In an hour more the only visitors left were the guests staying at Swanhaven Lodge. The company gone, the hired waiters from Kirkandrew were paid and dismissed. On the journey back the silence of Bishopriggs created some surprise among his comrades. "I've got my ain concerns to think of," was the only answer he vouchsafed to the remonstrances addressed to him.
They had been together at Swanhaven for little more than ten days; and in that time he had made the conquest of Mrs. Glenarm. On the day before the garden-party in one of the leisure intervals allowed him by Perry he had caught her alone, had taken her by the arm, and had asked her, in so many words, if she would marry him.
It was only at moments like these or when he and his wife were playing Sonatas in the modest little music-room at Swanhaven that Lord Holchester's eldest son was really happy. He secretly groaned over the duties which his position as a landed gentleman imposed upon him; and he suffered under some of the highest privileges of his rank and station as under social martyrdom in its cruelest form.
After resting two days, she left Perth by the first train in the morning, for Swanhaven Lodge. JULIUS DELAMAYN was alone, idly sauntering to and fro, with his violin in his hand, on the terrace at Swanhaven Lodge. The first mellow light of evening was in the sky. It was the close of the day on which Anne Silvester had left Perth.
"This is a confirmation," she said. "Mr. Brinkworth has been found out the woman is married to him Geoffrey is free. Oh, my dear friend, what a load of anxiety you have taken off my mind! That vile wretch " Lady Lundie suddenly opened her eyes. "Do you mean," she asked, "the woman who is at the bottom of all the mischief?" "Yes. I saw her yesterday. She forced herself in at Swanhaven.
Glenarm's marriage, in the interests of the reparation which Geoffrey owed to her, her conduct would only confirm Geoffrey's audacious assertion that she was a married woman already. For her own sake she might still have hesitated to move in the matter. But Blanche's interests were concerned as well as her own; and, for Blanche's sake, she had resolved on making the journey to Swanhaven Lodge.
"You don't know what depends on this, If your memory is not clear about it, say so." "My memory was confused for a moment. It is clear again now. He had been at his brother's in Perthshire three weeks before he wrote that. And before he went to Swanhaven, he spent three or four days in the valley of the Esk." "Are you sure again?" "Quite sure!"
At a later period, when society offered its triple welcome to her birth, her beauty, and her wealth go where she might, she found herself the object of the same prostrate admiration among the suitors who vied with each other in the rivalry for her hand. For the first time in her life she encountered a man with a will of his own when she met Geoffrey Delamayn at Swanhaven Lodge.
Arriving in Perth the day after the festivities at Swanhaven, Bishopriggs proceeded to the Harp of Scotland at which establishment for the reception of travelers he possessed the advantage of being known to the landlord as Mrs. Inchbare's right-hand man, and of standing high on the head-waiter's list of old and intimate friends.
He had not only got the letter about him but, more than that, he was actually then on the look-out for the means of turning the letter to profitable pecuniary account. The domestic establishment of Swanhaven Lodge included no formidable array of servants. When Mrs.
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