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Within two miles of Thrapston is Drayton House, Lowick, the seat of the Sackville family, which retains many of the features of an ancient castle, and has a gallery of paintings by the old masters. The church of Lowick contains several monuments, brasses, and windows of stained glass.
"Oh, amuse her. Let her travel; give her lots of society; don't bother her with domestic affairs. Don't let her feel she's under any obligation. That's what she kicks against. So do I; always did." Calder pulled his mustache. Lord Thrapston had briefly sketched the exact opposite of his ideal of married life. "The fact is," continued the old man, "the boy's an uncommon handsome boy.
And, whatever she did when she went upstairs, Lord Thrapston was in a position to swear that Charlie's letter was not destroyed in the drawing-room. "She's such a dear good girl, Mr. Wentworth," said Lady Merceron. "She's the greatest comfort I have." It was after luncheon at Langbury Court. Lady Merceron and Calder sat on the lawn: Mrs.
Then the son died, leaving a lately married wife and a baby-girl, and Lord Thrapston, deprived at once of hope and of restraint, returned to his old courses, till age came upon him and drove him from practice into reminiscence. Mrs. Glyn had outlived her husband fifteen years and then followed him, fairly snubbed to death, some said, by her formidable father-in-law.
Oh, I do wish somebody would help me!" Lord Thrapston rose from his seat. "You must do what you like," he said. "I'm going to tell Calder." "Oh, why?" "Because," he answered, "I'm a man of honor." Before the impressive invocation of her grandfather's one religion, Agatha's opposition collapsed. "I suppose he must be told," she admitted mournfully.
Her censures will have been long ago anticipated by every right-thinking person, and if she softened them down a little more than strict justice allowed, it must have been because Agatha was an old favorite of hers, and Lord Thrapston an old antipathy. Upon her word, she always wondered that the poor child, brought up by that horrid old man, was not twice as bad as she was.
I perhaps I did treat Calder rather badly " "Oh, you go so far as to admit that, do you, Aggy?" "But Charlie! Oh, to think that Charlie should treat me like that!" and she threw herself on the sofa again. Lord Thrapston sat quite still. Presently Agatha rose, came to the table, and took up her two letters.
BLISWORTH. 34.5 OUNDLE. 4.75 NORTHAMPTON. 40.75 WANSFORD. 15.75 WELLINGBOROUGH. STAMFORD by Coach. 20 HIGHAM FERRERS. 47.25 PETERBOROUGH. 26 THRAPSTON. From Blisworth branches out the line to Peterborough, with sixteen stations, of which we name above the more important.
Calder felt a sudden impulse to disclose to Lord Thrapston his secret opinion of him, and he recollected, with a pang, that in the course of so doing he would have to touch on more than one characteristic shared by the old man and Agatha.
Cherrie of Thrapston, "a very aged man," had in a quarrel uttered the wish that his neighbor's tongue might rot out. The neighbor thereupon suffered from something which we should probably call cancer of the tongue. Perhaps as yet the possibilities of suggestion have not been so far sounded that we can absolutely discredit the physical effects of a malicious wish.
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