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"It was the most providential thing," she says; "I was staying at the Warburtons' last month, and one day when driving their abominable ponies along the road, suddenly the little beasts took fright and bolted. You know the Warburtons, don't you? They haven't an ounce of manners between them themselves, or their ponies, or anything else belonging to them. Well! They tore along as if possessed "
But it doesn't change my mind a bit." After a pause, the Madonna-creature asked, "Who is Valentine Landry?" Mrs. Beale had her saucy little cap off, and was brushing out her thin, light locks in which the gray showed slightly. But she stopped long enough to explain. "He isn't half as sentimental as his name. I met him in Chicago at the Warburtons', just before I made a success of my book.
Among the lingerers we found Sir William and Lady Duff Gordon, the two Warburtons, "Hochelaga" and "Crescent and Cross," and "Eothen." Mrs. Milman I really love, and we see much of them. On Saturday was the dreaded Drawing-Room, on which occasion I was to be presented to the Queen. . . . Mr. Bancroft and I left home at a quarter past one.
"I was to dine with the Warburtons later in the week, an' before I entered the big house that evening I went around to the lodge. The children were all well an' asleep in their beds, an' the matron apparently happy an' contented. She said that Mrs.
In their simple and wholesome way of living, the Warburtons of course dined at midday, and Will, who rarely ate without appetite, surpassed himself as trencherman; nowhere had food such a savour for him as under this roof. The homemade bread and home-grown vegetables he was never tired of praising; such fragrant and toothsome loaves, he loudly protested, were to be eaten nowhere else in England.
And, after all," Denham went on, glancing round him satirically, as Katharine thought, "it's not your grandfather only. You're cut out all the way round. I suppose you come of one of the most distinguished families in England. There are the Warburtons and the Mannings and you're related to the Otways, aren't you? I read it all in some magazine," he added.
The whole enterprise had been a bluff conceived in the interest of the Warburtons. I hadn't really intended to build a house, but suddenly I got busy with all the mechanics I could hire in Pointview, and the house began to grow like a mushroom. "Another wonderful thing happened. Mrs. Warburton fell in love with the kids, and they with her.
"I don't know, I'm sure, but at all events she is an heiress to quite a tremendous extent. Two hundred thousand pounds, the Warburtons told me afterwards; even allowing for exaggeration, still, she must be worth a good deal, and poor dear Maurice, what is he worth?" "Is it another riddle?" asks Mrs. Bethune. "No, no, indeed! The answer is plain to all the world.
I am to get in that case the best fee on record a wife and the love of a dear and beautiful woman. We went to school together, and I am ashamed that I didn't ask her to marry me years ago. So much for me had Lizzie an' the kids accomplished. "I was to dine with the Warburtons Christmas Eve, and be Santa Claus for the children.
"The Warburtons?" "No, the ponies; don't be silly?" "Such a relief!" "And I really think they would have taken me over a precipice. You can see" holding out her exquisite little hands "how inadequate these would be to deal with the Warburton ponies. But for the timely help of an elderly gentleman and a young girl she looked a mere child " "This Miss Bolton?" "Yes.
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