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Updated: June 19, 2025
Just before the ladies left the table, Josiah had announced their intended visit to Beechleigh, and his wife's relationship to Sir Patrick Fitzgerald and the old Earl Borringdon. It came as a thunderclap to Lady Anningford. This accounted for Hector's eagerness to obtain the invitation accounted for Theodora's exceeding look of breeding accounted for many things.
She started, made an incredulous outcry, caused it to be repeated, with its authority, then rose up, exclaiming, 'The wretch! My poor Emma! I never was more rejoiced. But Emma! The sight of Theodora's surprise recalled her to herself.
And when the morrow came, he found it, after all, safe enough, and an easy enough matter, to tuck Theodora's small, gloved hand under his arm, when they set out on their tour of investigation and discovery. The girl was pretty enough, too, in her soft, black merino her "best" dress in Downport but she was not dazzling.
The alphabet was learned from the labels on the cans of vegetables and fruits on Theodora's shelves. There was one line of goods made by a firm, according to its own telling, high in the favour of "their Majesties So and So," that was rich in vowels and consonants.
Nay, then, if you cannot say it, do but nod your head, and I take it as your signal." In that moment there flashed before Theodora's mind a vision of all her enemies, of all those who envied her rise, of all whose hatred and contempt would rise into a clamour of delight could they see the daughter of the bearward hurled down again into that abyss from which she had been dragged.
Ludovic had to deposit himself in Theodora's new wicker rocker, where he looked and felt lamentably out of place. If Theodora felt the situation to be awkward, she carried it off superbly. She had never looked handsomer, and Ludovic perceived that she wore her second best silk dress. He wondered miserably if she had donned it in expectation of his rival's call.
'And most ungratefully she won't confess it, said Arthur. 'I despise coaxing, said Theodora. 'The question is, what you would have done without it, said John. 'As if I could not subdue a little sprite like that! 'You certainly might if it was a question of physical force, said Percy, as he seemed to be measuring with his eye the strength of Theodora's tall vigorous person.
My father wrote that he regretted Theodora's having been left to one so little capable of controlling her. 'Lord Martindale is a very good man, but he has no more discrimination of character than my old cat! cried Percy. 'I beg your pardon, John, but the fact was patent. Mrs. Martindale is the only person who has ever been a match for Theodora.
After the first, however, Lady Elizabeth's attention wandered; and before the retrograding story had gone quite back to the original Brogden cough, she suddenly asked if Percival Fotheringham was in England. 'Yes, at Worthbourne. You know it was his cousin 'I know it was a mistake, said Lady Elizabeth, hurrying over the subject, as by no means suited its importance in Theodora's eyes.
"We can all breakfast together at Henry's," he said, with his grand manner, which included the whole party; and for one instant force of habit made Theodora's heart sink with fear at the prospect of the bill, as it had often had to do in olden days when her father gave these royal invitations.
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