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But Miss Umpleby why did she grow roses?" "Ah, poor thing," said Mrs. Thornbury, "that's a long story. She had gone through dreadful sorrows. At one time I think she would have lost her senses if it hadn't been for her garden. The soil was very much against her a blessing in disguise; she had to be up at dawn out in all weathers. And then there are creatures that eat roses. But she triumphed.
"And grandpapa was perfectly indifferent to her: it must have been dreary work. Oh, what a pity that Lady Latimer did not care for him!" "She did care for him very much." "But if she cared for Umpleby more?" Miss Charlotte sighed retrospectively and said, "Olympia was ambitious: she is the same still I see no change.
I was telling my husband how much you reminded me of a dear old friend of mine Mary Umpleby. She was a most delightful woman, I assure you. She grew roses. We used to stay with her in the old days." "No young man likes to have it said that he resembles an elderly spinster," said Mr. Thornbury. "On the contrary," said Mr. Hewet, "I always think it a compliment to remind people of some one else.
The man of the world preferred her reticence to the wisest speech. He mused for several minutes before he spoke again himself. Then he gave air to some of his reflections: "Lady Latimer has great qualities. Her marriage was the blunder of her youth. Her girlish imagination was dazzled by the name of a lord and the splendor of Umpleby.
After a few minutes of divided attention my lady rose, and a propos of the Norminster election expressed her satisfaction in the career that seemed to be opening for Mr. Cecil Burleigh: "Lord Latimer thought highly of him from a boy. He was often at Umpleby in the holidays.
Lord Latimer was not one of our oldest nobility, but he was very rich and his mansion at Umpleby was splendid, quite a palace, and our Olympia was queen there." "We never married," said Miss Charlotte meekly. "It would not have done for us to marry men who could not have been received at court, so to speak at Umpleby, I mean. Olympia said so at the time, and we agreed with her.
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