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Wrykyn did not always win its other school matches; but it generally did. The public schools of England divide themselves naturally into little groups, as far as games are concerned. Harrow, Eton, and Winchester are one group: Westminster and Charterhouse another: Bedford, Tonbridge, Dulwich, Haileybury, and St. Paul's are a third.
She rose, and held out the note, addressed to Lady Tonbridge. He took the note, and the hand together. The temptation was irresistible. He raised the hand and kissed it. Both were naturally reminded of the only previous occasion on which he had done such a thing; and as he dropped his hold, Delia saw the ugly scar which would always mark his left wrist.
But her troubled eyes met his appealingly. Wilmington's disturbance was plain. "I had ventured to think to hope " he began, abruptly "that although you refused to give me your promise when I asked it, yet that you would not again or so soon again receive Mr. Lathrop privately." Delia rose and came towards him. "I told Lady Tonbridge not to come down. Was that very wrong of me?"
Heavens! what a light!" Winnington turned to see the glow of a lovely afternoon fusing all the hill-side in a glory of gold and amethyst, and the windows in the long front of Monk Lawrence taking fire under the last rays of a fast-dropping sun. "Do you know I sometimes feel anxious about that house!" said Madeleine Tonbridge, abruptly.
"Oh, come in," said Lady Tonbridge, with resignation, extending at the same time a hand of welcome "the little maid, as you call her, only came from your workhouse yesterday, and I haven't yet discovered a grain of sense in her. But she gets plenty of exercise. If she isn't chasing dogs, it's cats." "Don't you attack my schools," said Winnington seating himself at the tea-table.
He seemed quiet, she thought, and rather apart from the others. The journey down to Tonbridge proved slightly disastrous. To begin with, thanks to Daddy Brown himself, the company missed the best train of the day and had to travel by one that meant two changes. On arrival at Tonbridge at four o'clock in the afternoon they found that one of the stage property boxes had gone astray.
She would tell no one till it was done; not even Gertrude, whose cold, changed manner to her hurt the girl's proud sense to think of. "I must do it properly I won't be cheated!" The London lawyers? No. The local solicitor, Mr. Masham? No! Her vanity was far too keenly conscious of their real opinion of her, through all their politeness. Lady Tonbridge? No!
"Good lad!" he grinned. "Ye be a play-actor, for sure?" "Certainly I am not! Pray how may I get to Tonbridge?" "Why, like Gammer Perkins' old sow," he grinned, "one leg afore t' other! I bean't sich a green 'un as ye think." "Thank you for nothing!" said I sharply. "Oh, ye can't make a fule of I!" quoth he, grinning. "No," I retorted, "Nature has done so already!"
"Poor child! all alone! But you'll have Lady Tonbridge to-morrow." "How do you know? She mayn't come." "I'm going there now. I'll make her. You you won't be doing any more embroidery to-night?" He looked at her slyly. Delia laughed out. "There! when one tries to be feminine, that's how you mock!" "'Mock! I admired. Good-night! I shall be here to-morrow." He was gone into the darkness.
The Sussex ironfounders worked chiefly at Cowden, Hawkhurst, and Lamberhurst, and there were forges at Cranbrook, Coudhurst, Tonbridge, and Biddenden. The principal ironmasters of Kent were the Knights and the Tichbornes, whose descendants became baronets.
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