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"I decline to advise you," he answered. "I take no responsibility, beyond the responsibility of stating the law as it stands, in your case." Mr. Vanborough sat down again at the table, to consider the alternative of asserting or not asserting his freedom from the marriage tie. He had not had much time thus far for turning the matter over in his mind.
The slander to which such women are exposed doubted my marriage. I provided myself with the paper in your hand. It speaks for itself. Even the highest society, madam, respects that!" Lady Jane examined the paper. It was a marriage-certificate. She turned deadly pale, and beckoned to Mr. Vanborough. "Are you deceiving me?" she asked. Mr.
Vanborough beckoned to Blanche to come to her, and pointed toward the French window opening to the floor. "Would you like to eat your fruit in the garden, Blanche?" "Yes," said Blanche, "if Anne will go with me." Anne rose at once, and the two girls went away together into the garden, hand in hand. On their departure Mr. Kendrew wisely started a new subject.
Vanborough's sullen humor resisted his friend as obstinately as it had resisted his wife. "I dare say," he answered. "I wasn't listening." This time the tone was almost brutal. Mrs. Vanborough looked at her husband with unconcealed surprise and distress. "John!" she said. "What can be the matter with you? Are you in pain?"
Looking over my cousin's shoulders were two other faces, one covered with rough hair, and evidently belonging to a game-keeper, the other the beautiful face of my cousin, Lady Ethel Vanborough, St. Nivel's sister. "Poor fellow!" she remarked sympathetically. "What have they been doing to you?" I could hardly believe my eyes, and passed my hand wearily across my forehead. St.
"Pray accept my excuses for this intrusion. I am ashamed to disturb you. One look at the room will be quite enough." Thus far she had addressed Mr. Delamayn, who happened to be nearest to her. Looking round the room her eye fell on Mr. Vanborough. She started, with a loud exclamation of astonishment. "You!" she said. "Good Heavens! who would have thought of meeting you here?" Mr.
"Stop!" said Mrs. Vanborough, "your ladyship's looks are looks of contempt; your ladyship's words can bear but one interpretation. I am innocently involved in some vile deception which I don't understand. But this I do know I won't submit to be insulted in my own house. After what you have just said I forbid my husband to give you his arm." Her husband! Lady Jane looked at Mr. Vanborough at Mr.
The London Gazette announced him to the world as Baron Holchester of Holchester. And the friends of the family rubbed their hands and said, "What did we tell you? Here are our two young friends, Julius and Geoffrey, the sons of a lord!" And where was Mr. Vanborough all this time? Exactly where we left him five years since. He was as rich, or richer, than ever. He was as well-connected as ever.
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