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Miss Palliser, when a gentleman of Mr. Wendover's means and social status wishes to marry a young person in your position a concatenation which occurs very rarely in the history of the human race he comes to the hall door. Mr. Wendover no more means to marry you than he means to marry the moon. His views are of quite a different kind, and you know it.
Up, and to Alderman Backewell's He was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth. After the Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money transactions. He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679, and in the Oxford parliament of 1680. According to the writer of the life in the "Diet. of Nat. Biog.
Wendover, said Robert, stopping and holding out his hand. 'I meant to have come to talk to you about this place this morning. I ought to have come before. He spoke gently, and quite simply, almost as if they had parted the day before. The squire touched his hand for an instant. 'You may not, perhaps, be aware, Mr.
Since the epidemic had begun, all that sense of imaginative attraction which had been reviving in him toward the Squire had been simply blotted out by a fierce heat of indignation. When he thought of Mr. Wendover now, he thought of him as the man to whom in strict truth it was owing that helpless children died in choking torture.
It was only by a great effort that he could turn his thoughts from the squire, and all that the squire had meant to him during the past year, and so woo back to himself 'the shy bird Peace. Mr. Wendover watched the door close behind him, and then went back to his work with a gesture of impatience. 'Once a priest, always a priest. What a fool I was to forget it!
Her heart was beating much faster than it should have done, and she was considering whether it was worth while to place herself in the way of feeling the pain, the hidden shame, the sense of falsehood which oppressed her at this moment; whether it would not be better to run any risk, even the hazard of offending Betsy Wendover, the kindest friend she had in the world, rather than remain in her present position.
He made Madame de Netteville, therefore, a cordial smiling reply before his tall slender form disappeared after that of his wife. 'Agreeable rather an acquisition! said Madame de Netteville to Lady Aubrey, with a light motion of the head towards Robert's retreating figure. 'But the wife! Good heavens! I owe Roger Wendover a grudge.
And yet there could be no wrong done to Miss Wendover, she told herself, by her suppression of the truth. It was a suppression that concerned only Brian Walford and herself. No one else could have any interest in the matter. Betsy Wendover herself led the way to the bed-chamber that had been prepared for the new inmate.
Wendover was not only the owner of Murewell, he was also the owner of the whole land of the parish, where, however, by a curious accident of inheritance, dating some generations back, and implying some very remote connection between the Wendover and Elsmere families, he was not the patron of the living. Now the more Elsmere studied him under this aspect, the deeper became his dismay.
'If she is the kind of girl Miss Rylance describes her she will set her cap at me, he thought. 'If she wants to be mistress of Wendover Abbey, one mistake and one failure will not daunt her. But there was no such setting of caps. For a long time Ida treated Mr. Wendover of the Abbey with the perfect frankness of friendship.
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