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Grey's mind he did not declare, but he resolved to take his daughter's advice in all that she said to him. Mr. Grey went down to Tretton with a great bag of papers. In fact, though he told his daughter that he had to examine them all before he started, and had taken them to Fulham for that purpose, he had not looked at them. And, as another fact, the bag was not opened till he got home again.
The hard reading had been continued for a fortnight or three weeks, during which he had, at any rate, respected himself, but in an evil hour he had allowed it to escape from him, and now was again miserable. Then the invitation from Tretton had been received. "I have got a letter; 'tis from Mr. Scarborough of Tretton." "What does Mr. Scarborough say?" "He wants me to go down there."
"Tretton being all your own can make no difference." "I told you that I had not come to offer you my fortune." And he almost scowled at her as he spoke. "You know what my career has hitherto been, though you do not perhaps know what has driven me to it. Shall I go back, and live after the same fashion, and let Tretton go to the dogs? It will be so unless you take me and Tretton into your hands."
He was no longer the assured heir of Tretton, and in this way he was to be told of the failure of his golden hopes. It would be odd, he thought, if he could not still hold his dominion over Septimus Jones. "I am not at all sure that I shall listen to him or to you either." "As for that, you can do as you like." "Of course I can do as I like."
No such thing. He himself was cheated. He pledged himself to the boot-maker that, to the best of his belief, his father was robbing him, and that he would undoubtedly assert his right to the Tretton property as soon as the breath should be out of his father's body. The truth of what he told the boot-maker he certainly did believe.
"Oh, mamma, why should you be so hard?" "I am hard, because I will not allow you to accept a young man who has, I believe, behaved very badly, and who has got nothing of his own." "He is his uncle's heir." "We know what that may come to. Mountjoy was his father's heir; and nothing could be entailed more strictly than Tretton. We know what entails have come to there. Mr.
As to Tretton, the captain believed his brother's manner rather than his words. In fact, the barrister had heard nothing as yet of what was to be done on his behalf. The interview ended in the two men going and dining at a club, where the captain told the whole story of his father's imagined iniquity. Augustus received the tale almost in silence.
When he had first heard of the injury that had been done to Harry Annesley, he thought that he would leave to our hero all the furniture, all the gems, all the books, all the wine, all the cattle which were accumulated at Tretton. Augustus should have the bare acres, and still barer house, but nothing else.
He would bid you come and see a pagan depart in peace, and would be very unhappy if he thought that your dinner would be disturbed by the ceremony. Now come down to breakfast, and then we'll go out shooting." For three days Harry remained at Tretton, and ate and drank, and shot and rode, always in young Scarborough's company.
"I shall understand nothing of the kind," said Mountjoy "but I suppose Mr. Grey will tell me what I am to do." While these things were going on at Tretton, and while Mr. Scarborough was making all arrangements for the adequate disposition of his property, in doing which he had happily come to the conclusion that there was no necessity for interfering with what the law had settled, Mr.
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