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Warwick therefore was not missed by Lady Wathin. 'I have met her, she said. 'I confess I am not one of the fanatics about Mrs. Warwick. She has a sort of skill in getting men to clamour. If you stoop to tickle them, they will applaud. It is a way of winning a reputation. When the ladies were separated from the gentlemen by the stream of Claret, Miss Asper heard Lady Wathin speak of Mrs.
'Is it not pardon me a wife's duty, Mrs. Warwick, at least to listen? 'Lady Wathin, I have listened to you. 'In the case of his extreme generosity so putting it, for the present, Mrs. Warwick, that he asks only to be heard personally by his wife! It may preclude so much. Diana felt a hot wind across her skin.
'Remember, it was nearly mine. It soon will be mine. I heard yesterday from Lady Wathin... well, if it pains you! 'Speak on, said Diana, resigned to her thirsty ears. 'He is not expected to last through the autumn. 'The calculation is hers? 'Not exactly: judging from the symptoms. Diana flashed a fiery eye into Dacier's, and rose.
Until he drops down in the street, as his doctor expects him to do some day, she will continue her course; and even then . . . An adventuress desiring her freedom! Lady Wathin looked. She was too devout a woman to say what she thought. But she knew the world to be very wicked. Of Mrs. Warwick, her opinion was formed.
Mary Paynham brought her the news. She had it from a lady who had come across Miss Asper at Lady Wathin's assemblies, and considered the great heiress extraordinarily handsome. 'A golden miracle, Diana gave her words to say. 'Good looks and gold together are rather superhuman. The report may be this time true. Next afternoon the card of Lady Wathin requested Mrs.
Lady Wathin heard of her cousin's having been removed to Cowes in May, for light Solent and Channel voyages on board Lord Esquart's yacht.
She sent word to Lady Dunstane: 'You know the interest I have always taken in dear Constance Aspen' etc.; inviting her to come on a visit a week before the end of the month, that she might join in the ceremony of a wedding 'likely to be the grandest of our time. Pitiful though it was, to think of the bridal pair having but eight or ten days at the outside, for a honeymoon, the beauty of their 'mutual devotion to duty' was urged by Lady Wathin upon all hearers.
Mary Paynham brought her the news. She had it from a lady who had come across Miss Asper at Lady Wathin's assemblies, and considered the great heiress extraordinarily handsome. 'A golden miracle, Diana gave her words to say. 'Good looks and gold together are rather superhuman. The report may be this time true. Next afternoon the card of Lady Wathin requested Mrs.
'She has no money': Lady Wathin corrected her emphasis: 'or ought to have none. 'She can't have got it from him. 'Did you notice her Christian name? 'I don't recollect it, if I did. I thought the woman a donkey. 'Would you consider me a busybody were I to try to mitigate this woman's evil influence? I love dear Constance, and should be happy to serve her.
Warwick were annoying to Lady Wathin when she considered that they were borrowed, and that a pattern morality could regard the woman as ostracized: nor was it agreeable to be looked at through eyelashes under partially lifted brows. She had come to appeal to the feelings of the wife; at any rate, to discover if she had some and was better than a wild adventuress.
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