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Nash told his intimates that night that Brand would rue his audacity, and the prophecy soon dismally fulfilled itself. The local bank to which Brand owed money had been accustomed for years to deal with very large temporary balances representing the rents of half the Threlfall estates.
The letter was published in the two local papers with appropriate comments, and a week later an indignation meeting to protest against the state of the Threlfall property, and to petition the Local Government Board to hold an inquiry on the spot, was held in Carlisle, with Tatham in the chair.
But if I modify the terms of the will in your favour, I forfeit the estates. Besides isn't it monstrous damnable that Melrose's daughter should owe to charity the charity of a fellow who had never heard of Melrose or Threlfall six months ago what is her right her plain and simple right?" Victoria agreed.
The next farm to his belonged to the Threlfall estate. Melrose's methods as a landlord had thrown out one tenant after another, till he could do nothing but put in a bailiff and work it himself. The bailiff was incompetent, and a herd of cattle made their way one morning through a broken fence that no one had troubled to mend, and did serious damage to Brand's standing crops.
In place of the little sitting-room, the modest home of refined women living on a slender income, he saw the great gallery at Threlfall with its wonderful contents, and the series of marvellous rooms he had now examined and set in order.
Palmerston-Swete came first. Then Lady Victoria Threlfall. Then Dorothea. Then sixteen other women. Drayton did not look at them. He did not see what happened when the Cabinet Minister met his wife. He did not see the sixteen other women. He saw nothing but Dorothea walking by herself. She had no hat on. Her clothes were as the great raid had left them, a month ago.
She had lost the power of rapid recuperation that youth gave to Felicia, and in spite of the comforts of Threlfall her aspect was scarcely less deplorable than when she arrived. Moreover she had cried much since the delivery of the Threlfall letter the day before. Her eyes were red, and her small face disfigured.
Only once before in his life had he been within the park on one of the hunts of his boyhood, the famous occasion when the fox, started on the other side of the river, had made straight for Threlfall, and, the gate closing the private foot-bridge having been, by a most unusual chance, left open, had slipped thereby into the park, with the hounds in full cry after him.
Surely there had been a wife? "Certainly twenty years ago. I saw her." The answer came readily. "She ran away?" "Not in the usual sense. There was no one, I understand, to run with. But she could not stand Threlfall nor I suppose her husband. So one day when he had gone to Italy, and she was left behind she just " "'Elopes down a ladder of ropes'" laughed Tatham; "and took the child?"
Lydia would live at Threlfall; would be immensely rich; and there would be no more bloodhounds in the park. But when Faversham was gone, and realities began to sink into the little lady's mind, as Lydia sitting at her feet, and holding her hand, tried to infuse them, dejection followed. No coronet! and now, no fortune!
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