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The explanation would take time, and time would give his wife an opportunity of discovering Lady Jane. Seeing all these considerations in one breathless moment, Mr. Vanborough took the shortest and the boldest way out of the difficulty. He answered silently by an affirmative inclination of the head, which dextrously turned Mrs. Vanborough into to Mrs. Delamayn without allowing Mr.
The special observer, penetrating under the surface, found a fine nature beneath, resting on a steady foundation of honor and truth. Mr. Vanborough opened the conversation. "If you ever marry," he said, "don't be such a fool, Kendrew, as I have been. Don't take a wife from the stage." "If I could get such a wife as yours," replied the other, "I would take her from the stage to-morrow.
Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime. He entered Parliament. He made a successful first speech in the House of Commons. He endowed a church in a poor neighborhood.
At least my cousin, Ethel Vanborough, said I had. There was always something like home about dear old Bannington to me, with a sniff of the sea when you first stepped out of the carriage at the door. The big comfortable old landau with its pair of strong horses had now, however, given place to a smart motor car, upholstered like a little drawing-room. My cousin, Lord St.
"I wish I could smooth out that frown!" she whispered. Mr. Vanborough impatiently shook his head. Mrs. Vanborough sighed as she turned to the door. Her husband called to her before she could leave the room. "Mind we are not interrupted!" "I will do my best, John." She looked at Mr. Kendrew, holding the door open for her; and resumed, with an effort, her former lightness of tone.
She had her double privilege of familiarity with the men whom she liked her privilege as a woman of high rank, and her privilege as a young widow. She bowed to Mrs. Vanborough, with all the highly-finished politeness of the order to which she belonged. "The lady of the house, I presume?" she said, with a gracious smile. Mrs.
"I am perfectly certain," I said hesitatingly, for I was not going to give myself away, "that you will make our stay delightful, but I think, before I answer, I had better let you into a little secret. "I happen to know that my cousin, Lord St. Nivel, and his sister, Lady Ethel Vanborough, intend asking you and Donna Dolores to spend some time with them in England.
Delamayn his first opportunity of speaking to her. "I beg your ladyship's pardon," he began. "I really can't " Mr. Vanborough passing close behind him and whispering as he passed stopped the lawyer before he could say a word more. "For God's sake, don't contradict me! My wife is coming this way!" "You appear to feel some hesitation," she said. "Do you want a reference?"
Vanborough, thirteen years since?" "Yes." "Your wife then Miss Anne Silvester was a Roman Catholic?" "Yes." "Her father and mother were Roman Catholics?" "They were." "Your father and mother were Protestants? and you were baptized and brought up in the Church of England?" "All right!"
Lady Jane declined to leave until she had thawed the icy reception of the lady of the house. "I must repeat my apologies," she said to Mrs. Vanborough, "for coming at this inconvenient time. My intrusion appears to have sadly disturbed the two gentlemen. Mr. Vanborough looks as if he wished me a hundred miles away. And as for your husband " She stopped and glanced toward Mr. Delamayn.
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