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Updated: May 10, 2025
On leaving North Shingles Noel Vanstone walked straight home, fully restored to his place in his own estimation, and sternly determined to carry matters with a high hand if he found himself in collision with Mrs. Lecount. The housekeeper received her master at the door with her mildest manner and her gentlest smile.
We were their age once and it's no use making a fuss and that's all I've got to say about it." With that characteristic defense of his own conduct, Mr. Vanstone sauntered back to the greenhouse to smoke another cigar.
He came there as a visitor only; he occupied a furnished house for the season; and he never expressed, either by word or deed, the slightest intention of settling permanently in the North." From Mrs. Noel Vanstone to Mr. Loscombe.
Restored by the stimulant, and encouraged by the readiness with which the captain anticipated everything that he had to say, Noel Vanstone contrived to state the serious object of his visit in tolerably plain terms. All the conventional preliminaries proper to the occasion were easily disposed of.
Vanstone took his daughter upstairs into her mother's room, and there placed before her the result of the yesterday's consultation, and of the night's reflection which had followed it. He spoke with perfect kindness and self-possession of manner-but in fewer and more serious words than usual; and he held his wife's hand tenderly in his own all through the interview.
Even Mr. Vanstone, when July drew nearer, lost something of his elasticity of spirit. He kept up appearances in his wife's presence but on all other occasions there was now a perceptible shade of sadness in his look and manner. Magdalen was so changed since Frank's departure that she helped the general depression, instead of relieving it.
Vanstone had unquestionably left the house in good spirits. At her age, and in her state of health, were good spirits compatible with such an errand to a physician as the errand on which she was bent? Then, again, had that letter from New Orleans, which had necessitated Mr. Vanstone's departure, no share in occasioning his wife's departure as well?
She started violently, and looked round toward the window. "Only the wind among the leaves," she said, faintly. "My nerves are so shaken, the least thing startles me. Speak out, for God's sake! When Mr. and Mrs. Vanstone left this house, tell me in plain words, why did they go to London?" In plain words, Mr. Pendril told her: "They went to London to be married."
Noel Vanstone in possession of your fortune and your sister's, as his father was, and determined to keep it, as his father was?" "Yes." "And here are you quite helpless to get it by persuasion quite helpless to get it by law just as resolute in his ease as you were in his father's, to take it by stratagem in spite of him?" "Just as resolute. Not for the sake of the fortune mind that!
Vanstone; I am sorry to see you suffering to-day. Mrs. Lecount, permit me to introduce my niece my niece, Miss Bygrave. My dear girl, this is Mr. Noel Vanstone, our neighbor at Sea-view Cottage. We must positively be sociable at Aldborough, Mrs. Lecount. And why not? Are we formal people on either side? Nothing of the sort; we are just the reverse.
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