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Updated: May 14, 2025

But Lady Tintern's adopted daughter and heiress old Tintern left an immense fortune to his wife, didn't he? is another matter altogether. And how could she settle down to this humdrum life after all the excitement and gaiety she's been accustomed to?" "Women do such things every day. Besides " "Yes?" "Is Peter still so much enamoured of a humdrum life?" said John, dryly.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

"A very beautiful and self-possessed young woman, and Lady Tintern's niece, 'whom not to know argues yourself unknown," said Lady Mary, laughing outright. "John says people were actually mobbing her picture in the Academy; he could not get near it." "I mean," said Peter, almost sulkily, "that she's only old Colonel Hewel's daughter, whom we've known all our lives."

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

But she is ate up with pride, poor thing, because Sarah gets noticed by Lady Tintern's friends, who would naturally wish to gratify her by flattering her niece." "I am afraid the girl is setting her cap at Peter," said Miss Crewys; "but I took care to let her mother know, casually, what our family would think of such a marriage for him."

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

"That is why he went up to Scotland." "I see." "Then she got him another invitation, I suppose, for he went to the next house she stayed at; and to a third place for some yachting." "What did Lady Tintern say?" "That's just it. Sarah is in Lady Tintern's black books just now. She is furious with her, Mrs. Hewel tells me, because she has refused Lord Avonwick." "Hum!" said John.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

"I would have come over to welcome you," he said, shaking Peter's hand cordially, "only when I came home there was all the upset of Lady Tintern's arrival, and half a hundred things to be done to make her sufficiently comfortable.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

Lady Tintern's turn took her no further than the fountain garden, where she sank down upon a bench, and graciously requested her escort to occupy the vacant space by her side. "I started at an unearthly hour this morning, and I am not so young as I was," she said; "but I am particularly desirous of a good night's rest, and I never can sleep with anything on my mind.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother

Lady Mary received her visitors in the banqueting hall, an apartment which excited Lady Tintern's warmest approval. The old lady dated the oak carving in the hall, and in the yet more ancient library; named the artists of the various pictures; criticized the ceilings, and praised the windows. Mrs.

Mrs. Henry De La Pasture - Peter's Mother