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Updated: May 24, 2025
How lucky you are to have discovered at the same time two such brilliant young people! By the bye, I have not mentioned Miss Tomalin to any one; it occurred to me that silence in this matter was perhaps discretion. If I have been needlessly reticent, pray say so.
It was nothing to me whether you heard this news then or later; but I knew that you had passed a sleepless night, and that the doctor had been sent for." "You knew you knew!" cried the listener, with savage scorn. "Did you know why Lord Dymchurch had gone?" "I took it for granted that it had something to do with Miss Tomalin." "Answer me in plain words, without a lie, and without shiftiness.
Whilst waiting impatiently for the result of their visits, Lashmar mused on the fact that May Tomalin certainly had not taken her departure; it was not likely now that she would quit the house; perhaps at this moment she was mistress of Rivenoak. Fatigue compelled him at length to enter, and in the hall he saw Constance.
"You enjoy this kind of thing, I fancy?" "I don't find it disagreeable." The chaperon and Miss Tomalin were moving away; May cast a look at Lashmar, but he was unconscious of it. Constance turned to follow her companions, and Dyce stood alone again.
I have been wondering what Miss Bride will think about it. Of course I couldn't speak to her on the subject. One almost feels as if she ought at all events to give half that money to Miss Tomalin, considering the terms on which she receives it." "But," objected Dyce, "that wouldn't be fulfilling the conditions of the bequest, which, I happen to know, were very specific.
"And for grudging it," said Tomalin Blacklees, "why shouldst thou grudge the poor paynim devil a drop of drink on earth, since thou knowest he is not to have a drop to cool the tip of his tongue through a long eternity?" "That were hard laws, look ye," said Long Allen, "only for being a Turk, as his father was before him.
The listener was panting as if she had run a race. "And the will?" she asked. "It dates from a year ago. May Tomalin is not mentioned in it. I, of course, have nothing." Iris gazed at the floor. A little sound as of consternation had passed her lips, but she made no attempt to console the victim of destiny who sat with bowed head before her.
"You know Miss Tomalin?" the lady added with a bright smile. "She has been lunching with me, and we are great friends. I wish I had known her sooner; she would have had a part. There she is, talking with Miss Dolbey. Yes, of course we have had to cut the play down. It's shocking, but there was no choice." Dymchurch got away from this chatter, and stood aside.
Then, discreetly, with no undue insistence, she made known her intention to endow May Tomalin with the greater part of her fortune. "I have lived long enough to know that money is not happiness, but in the right hands it is a great and good thing.
Having pressed his hand a very faint pressure, though meant for cordial Lady Ogram turned a look upon the bright young lady near her, and said, with a wheezy emphasis: "Let me introduce you to my niece, Miss Tomalin." Never had Lashmar known her so ceremonious; never had she appeared so observant of his demeanor during the social formality.
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