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Victoria, at any rate, was ignorant, and forbore to ask by word of mouth; though her thoughts were one long interrogation on the subject of Lydia, both as to the present and the past. Was she still in correspondence with Faversham, as Victoria now understood from Tatham she had been all the summer? Was she still defending him? Perhaps engaged to him?
But unless he had mistaken her altogether her detachment, her unworldliness, her high spirit Lydia Penfold was not the girl to marry an estate. And if Tatham himself had touched her heart "would she have allowed me the play with her that she has done this last fortnight?" She would have been absorbed, preoccupied; and she had been neither.
When it does come off my sister-in-law will do something absurd." "Something sentimental? I'll bet you she doesn't! Democracy is all very well except when it comes to marriage. Then even idealists like Lady Tatham knock under." "I wish you may be right. Anyway, she won't send him to New York!" "No need! Blue blood impoverished! that's my forecast." Gerald smiled ungenially.
Smith had made an advantageous contract with Tatham & Brothers for pipe, and had divided the profits with me by which I should gain five hundred dollars. You asked if it was all right and, if it should be made public, it would be considered so. I replied, 'Oh! yes; Mr.
This was all very fine for Lieutenant Tatham and Di Accrington, the two young monkeys. But why Aunt Constance and her middle-aged M.P.? If they wanted to, why couldn't they, without any nonsense? That was the truncated inquiry Gwen's mind made. She herself was radiant, dazzling, in the highest spirits.
At last one evening, when Tatham was away on county business, and Felicia had gone to bed, Victoria suddenly unburdened herself to Cyril Boden, as they sat one on either side of a November fire, while a southwesterly gale from the high fells blustered and raged outside. Boden was the confessor of a good many people.
It is on such feelings and traditions that all that is best in our still feudal English life is reared; Tatham had known them without stint; and in their absence he would have been merely the trivially prosperous young man that he no doubt appeared to the Radical orators of the neighbourhood. The wood thinned.
A far door opened and shut noisily behind him. He was gone. "In case he asks her to go and see his sitting-room? This is all very surprising." Lady Tatham sat on at the tea-table, her chin in her hands. It was quite true that she had brought up her son with unconventional ideas; that she had unconventional ideas herself on family and marriage.
Netta entered the drawing-room to see her husband pacing up and-down before a strange lady, who sat in one of the crimson armchairs, entirely at her ease. "So this is your wife, Edmund," said Lady Tatham, as she rose. "It is. You'll make mock of her no doubt as you do of me." "Nonsense!
When Undershaw left him, Tatham rode on, up the forest lane, till again the trees fell away, the wide valley with its boundary fells opened before him, and again his eye sought through the windy dusk for the far-gleaming light that spoke to him of Lydia. His mind was full of fresh agitation, stirred by Undershaw's remark about her.
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