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Updated: June 13, 2025
Master Sydney had gone to his room very cross, complaining of his mother's having questioned him overmuch about his ride, and then sent him to bed half an hour before his usual time. A deadly fear seized upon Margaret's heart, when she heard of Sydney's complaint of being overmuch questioned about his ride, a deadly fear for Hester.
"Yes, I can at least make some little amends for my folly my distr-rust. But can I win back ever my self-r-respect, so that you and other people can r-respect me? So that " He stopped as Sydney's voice reached him. She was coming up the hill, laughing with Bob. Von Rittenheim looked appealingly at Mrs. Carroll. "Sydney," she called, "go on to the house, dear, with Bob, and send James here."
"I understand that you know of a great sum of money that is coming to Maurice Darley. It's strange, very strange." "Why is it? Did you know anything about it? Did you expect it?" There was a note of alarm in Sydney's tones. "No, not that in particular. But you must tell me all the details before I dare to tell any more." The old lady seated herself on a low chair close to Sydney's side.
"I may tell you now," she resumed, with her gentle smile, "that you only remind me of what I had thought of already. My milliner is at work for Miss Westerfield. The new dress must be your gift." "Are you joking?" "I am in earnest. To-morrow is Sydney's birthday; and here is my present." She opened a jeweler's case, and took out a plain gold bracelet.
When the boy arrived with Sydney's telegram, Lettice intercepted him at the door. She was accustomed to keep watch over everything that entered the house, and saved her father a great deal of trouble by reading his letters, and, if need be, by answering them. What he would have done without her, he was wont to aver, nobody could tell.
That generous woman had been guilty of one, and but one, concealment of the truth. In relating the circumstances under which the elopement from Mount Morven had taken place, she had abstained, in justice to the sincerity of Sydney's repentance, from mentioning Sydney's name.
Down, then, on your marrow bones and worship me! And saying this, he raised his right arm, and with it struck his victim heavily on his head; the extremity of the arm, where the hand had been cut off, had been furnished with a piece of iron like a sledge-hammer, to enable the ruffian to possess the means of attack and defence. Fortunate it was that the blow did not fracture Sydney's skull.
Sydney and the Duke walked together in rear of Geoffrey and Featherstone. The Duke, in order to keep up with the regulation pace, secretly clung to Sydney's arm, which he dropped when the officer looked round and took again when the danger had passed.
He is usually a lord, and this is well; for his position compels him to lead an expensive life, and an English lord is generally well equipped for that. Another of Sydney's social pleasures is the visit to the Admiralty House; which is nobly situated on high ground overlooking the water.
"I felt sorry for the girl," Miss Vane went on, "although I despised her weakness in yielding to an affection for a married man. Still I thought that her folly had brought its own punishment, and that I ought not to be hard on her. Otherwise I should have recommended her to leave Sydney's daughter alone, and get a situation in another house. I wish I had.
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