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Gregory finished for me. "Maria!" Mrs. Weguelin murmurously expostulated. Mrs. Gregory immediately made me a handsome but equivocal apology. "I wasn't thinking of you at all!" she declared gayly; and it set me doubting if perhaps she hadn't, after all, comprehended my impertinence. "And, thank Heaven!" she continued, "John is one of us, in spite of his present stubborn course." But Mrs.
"Were killed?" explained Charley. Again there was a little pause before Mrs. Weguelin answered, "My four brothers met their deaths." Charley was interested. "And what was the percentage of fatality in their regiments?" "Oh," said Mrs. Weguelin, "we did not think of it in that way." And she turned aside. "Charley," said Kitty, with some precipitancy, "do make Mr.
Standing by my chair, I assured her that I did not think there could be. "I heard you allude to my half-sister-in-law, Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael. The Earl conducted himself as so many Englishmen seem to think they can in this country; and on her asking him how he liked America, he replied, very well, except for the people, who were so vulgar.
Weguelin St. Michael said about the tablets, and whatever traditions their inscriptions suggested to her, that quiet, low, persistent banker's voice of Charley's pervaded the building like a draft of cold air. Once, indeed, he addressed Mrs. Weguelin a question. "My mother's family," said Mrs. Weguelin. "And nowadays," inquired Beverly, "what do they find instead of military careers?"
"She goes where she likes. She'll meet us here when we're finished, I'm pretty sure." "Why such certainty?" "Well, she has to attend to Charley, you know!" Mrs. Weguelin, it appeared, had met the party here by the church, but had now gone somewhere in the immediate neighborhood to find out why the gate was not opened to admit us, and to hasten the unpunctual custodian of the keys.
Even those who were most anxious to speak evil of joint stock banks, did not mention this particular evil. The first time, as far as I know, that it was commented on in any important document, was in an official letter written in 1857 by Mr. Weguelin, who was then Governor of the Bank, to Sir George Lewis, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Was John still a secret to Charley? Could Hortense possibly have managed this? I hoped for a chance to observe the two men with her during the visit of Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael and her party to the church. This party was already assembled when I arrived upon the spot appointed.
Then it seemed well to carry them to Mrs. Weguelin. Something, however, prompted me to pass her door, and continue vaguely walking on until I came to the house where Miss Josephine and Miss Eliza lived; and here I rang the bell and was admitted.
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