Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 5, 2025
"There isn't a room upstairs but what's full o' Muster Melrose's things. Yo' mun do wi' this, or naethin'." Undershaw submitted, and Faversham's bearers gently laid him down, spreading their coats on the bare floor to receive him, till a bed could be found.
So there he is, left with the feeble old wife, and the half-witted son, who grows queerer and madder than ever. I needn't say the woman was very grateful " "Don't!" said Tatham; "it's a beastly world." They moved on in silence, till Undershaw resumed: "Dixon came to the surgery this afternoon, and I understood from him that he thinks Melrose is breaking up fast.
September was more than halfway through, when one morning Tatham tossed a letter to his mother across the breakfast table with the remark: "I say, mother, the new broom doesn't seem to be sweeping very well!" The letter was from Undershaw.
He had not had a word to say to them on that head; although, during these ghastly weeks, when they had acted as buffers between him and an enraged populace, relations of intimacy had clearly grown up between him and Boden, and both Undershaw and Tatham had been increasingly conscious of liking, even respect, for a much-abused man. Oh, it was it would be all right! Lydia would see to it! Lydia!
But no catalogue could have rendered its effect on Undershaw, who was not without artistic leanings of a mild kind himself an effect as of an old debt paid, an injustice remedied, a beautiful creation long abused and desecrated, restored to itself. The room was at last what it had been meant to be; and after a hundred and fifty years the thought of its dead architect had found fruition.
Undershaw got four labourers to help him, and, by George, they carried the man in! They found the drawing-room downstairs empty, no furniture in it, or next to none turned it into a bedroom in no time. Undershaw telegraphed for a couple of nurses and when Melrose came home next day tableau! There was a jolly row! Undershaw enjoyed it. I'd have given anything in the world to be there.
Faversham is really not fit yet to discuss his own plans, except with his doctor, Mr. Melrose. It would be both wise and kind of you to leave the decision of the matter to myself." Melrose stared at him. "Come along here!" he said, roughly. Opening the door of the library, he turned down the broad corridor to the right. Undershaw followed unwillingly.
Dixon and his wife whispered excitedly together; after which Dixon led the way through the corridor into the entrance hall which was equally encumbered and so to a door on the right. "Yo' can bring him in there," he said sulkily to Undershaw. "There's mebbe a bed upstairs we can bring doon."
His mad self-will, his pride of class and wealth, surviving through all his eccentricities, found it unbearable that Undershaw should show no real compunction whatever for what he had done, nay, rather, a quiet conviction that, rage as he might, the owner of Threlfall Tower would have to submit.
When Undershaw left him, Tatham rode on, up the forest lane, till again the trees fell away, the wide valley with its boundary fells opened before him, and again his eye sought through the windy dusk for the far-gleaming light that spoke to him of Lydia. His mind was full of fresh agitation, stirred by Undershaw's remark about her.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking