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Why shouldn't mother have them? She's going to take a house, she says. Let's hand them all over to her!" Lady Barnes's lips trembled with indignation. "The Trescoes who were born and died in this house, belong here!" The tone of the words showed the stab to feeling and self-love. "It would be a sacrilege to move them." "Well then, let's move ourselves!" exclaimed Daphne, springing up.
"But after all, Daphne, you know they are Trescoes!" this with a defensive and protecting glance at the Lelys. Daphne was sorry for it. Her mouth tightened, and certain lines appeared about it which already prophesied what the years would make of the young face. Yet it was a pretty mouth the mouth, above all, of one with no doubts at all as to her place and rights in the world.
When Daphne first stepped inside the ancestral mansion of the Trescoes such had been Lady Barnes's maiden name she had received a severe shock. The outside, the shell of the house delightful! But inside! heavens! what taste, what decoration what ruin of a beautiful thing!
But it was clear also that he was proud of the Trescoes; that he had fallen back upon them, so to speak. Since the fifteenth century there had always been a Trescoe at Heston; and Roger had already taken to browsing in county histories and sorting family letters.
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