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Updated: May 11, 2025
It may almost be said that she came at last to anticipate from her lover that very answer to her own letter which she had declared him to be incapable of making. John Grey, the Worthy Man Mr Grey's answer to Alice Vavasor's letter, which was duly sent by return of post and duly received on the morning after Lady Macleod's visit, may perhaps be taken as giving a sample of his worthiness.
Some ten or twelve days after George Vavasor's return to London from Westmoreland he appeared at Mr Scruby's offices with four small slips of paper in his hand. Mr Scruby, as usual, was pressing for money. The third election was coming on, and money was already being spent very freely among the men of the River Bank. So, at least, Mr Scruby declared.
He cannot know his Burke," he added laughingly, "to be ignorant of the not inconsiderable proportion of professional blood mixed with the blue in our country." It was not in Vavasor's usual taste: he had forgotten his best manners. But in truth he never had any best manners: comparatively few have anything but second-best, as the court of the universe will one day reveal.
He chiefly concerns our story at this present time because the Lady Glencora who had loved him, and would have married him had not those sagacious heads prevented it, was a cousin of Alice Vavasor's. She was among those very great relations with whom Alice was connected by her mother's side, being indeed so near to Lady Macleod, that she was first cousin to that lady, only once removed.
Would he not be a much better man if allowed to have Hester! whereas in all probability she would fall to the lot of some quill-driver like her father a man that made a livelihood by drumming his notions into the ears of people that did not care a brass farthing about them! Thus would Vavasor's love-fits work themselves off declining from cold noon to a drizzly mephitic twilight.
I cannot say that such had been Vavasor's creed, not entirely such. There had been periods of his life when he had believed implicitly in his cousin Alice; but then there had been other moments in which he had ridiculed himself for his Quixotism in believing in any woman. And as he had grown older the moments of his Quixotism had become more rare.
Mr Cheesacre had no wish that Miss Vavasor's name should be brought into play upon the occasion. "Dear Mrs Greenow," said he, "there is no cause for you to be alarmed, I can assure you. Mere trifles; light as air, you know. I don't think anything of such things as these." "But I and Kate think a great deal of them, a very great deal, I can assure you.
So the brown horse was sold for about half his value, because he had brought with him a bad character. Alice Vavasor's Great Relations Burgo Fitzgerald, of whose hunting experiences something has been told in the last chapter, was a young man born in the purple of the English aristocracy. He was related to half the dukes in the kingdom, and had three countesses for his aunts.
I have said that Alice Vavasor's big relatives cared but little for her in her early years; but I have also said that they were careful to undertake the charge of her education, and I must explain away this little discrepancy.
Vavasor's heart was touched in two ways by this simple speech first, in the best way in which it was at the moment capable of being touched; for he could not help thinking for a moment what a blessed thing it must be to feel good and have no weight upon you as this lovely girl plainly did, and live like her in perfect fearlessness of whatever might be going to happen to you.
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