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She smiled satirically, and summoned her friend to her aid. "Mr. Vanborough!" Mr. Vanborough, stealing step by step nearer to the window intent, come what might of it, on keeping his wife out of the room neither heeded nor heard her. Lady Jane followed him, and tapped him briskly on the shoulder with her parasol. At that moment Mrs. Vanborough appeared on the garden side of the window.
Imagine what would happen if your wife heard that! You are wrong, Vanborough you are in every way wrong. You alarm, you distress, you disappoint me. I never sought this explanation but now it has come, I won't shrink from it. Reconsider your conduct; reconsider what you have said to me or you count me no longer among your friends. No! I want no farther talk about it now.
He gave the servant his card. The servant's master knew the name as the name of a man of great wealth, and of a Member of Parliament. He asked politely to what fortunate circumstance he owed the honor of that visit. Mr. Vanborough answered, briefly and simply, "I once lived here; I have associations with the place with which it is not necessary for me to trouble you.
He lifted her from the floor and placed her on the sofa, and waited to see if Mr. Vanborough would come back. Looking at the beautiful face still beautiful, even in the swoon he owned it was hard on her. Yes! in his own impenetrable way, the rising lawyer owned it was hard on her. But the law justified it. There was no doubt in this case. The law justified it.
"If you had not been a total stranger yourself for a whole year past," answered Mrs. Vanborough, "you would never have made that confession. This is little Blanche the only child of the dearest friend I have. When Blanche's mother and I last saw each other we were two poor school-girls beginning the world. My friend went to India, and married there late in life.
"A journey ordered by the doctors in India a year since," rejoined Mrs. Vanborough. "They said Blanche's health required English air. Sir Thomas was ill at the time, and his wife couldn't leave him. She had to send the child to England, and who should she send her to but me? Look at her now, and say if the English air hasn't agreed with her! We two mothers, Mr.
Sure to push his way nobody could look at him and doubt it sure to push his way. "Kendrew is an old friend of mine," said Mr. Vanborough, addressing himself to the lawyer. "Whatever you have to say to me you may say before him. Will you have some wine?" "No thank you." "Have you brought any news?" "Yes." "Have you got the written opinions of the two barristers?" "No." "Why not?"
He referred to the letting of the house. "The loss of the garden will be a sad loss to those two young ladies," he said. "It really seems to be a pity that you should be giving up this pretty place." "Leaving the house is not the worst of the sacrifice," answered Mrs. Vanborough. "If John finds Hampstead too far for him from London, of course we must move.
"Wise or not, it's an infernal nuisance to be disturbed by a stranger." "Just as you please. I don't wish to interfere. I only wish to say in case you are thinking of my convenience as your guest that it will be no nuisance to me." The servant impenetrably waited. Mr. Vanborough impatiently gave way. "Very well. Let her in.
Foreigners might possibly think it a scandalous state of things. In this country we don't appear to mind it. Returning to the present case, the results stand thus: Mr. Vanborough is a single man; Mrs. Vanborough is a single woman; their child is illegitimate, and the priest, Ambrose Redman, is liable to be tried, and punished, as a felon, for marrying them." "An infamous law!" said Mr. Kendrew.
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