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'I begin to see light, said Miss Wendover, who had been thinking all this time. 'It's your father's doing. He thinks you are not making a profitable use of your education and talents. He has ordered you to go where you will get a larger salary. But don't let his needs separate us, my dear. I love you better than a few pounds a quarter.
He pretended to admire everything, but in a patronising way that made me savage; affected to think Wendover Abbey a little bit of a place, as compared with his modern barrack in Yorkshire, with its riding-school, tan gallop, range of orchard-houses, picture-gallery, and so on. And Urania's grandeur is something too large for words. "You and Mr.
Suddenly, however, he sprang up. 'I beg your pardon, Mr. Wendover, it is too bad to interrupt you I have enjoyed it immensely but the fact is I have only two minutes to get to Sunday School in! Mr. Wendover rose also, and resumed his ordinary manner. 'It is I who should apologize, he said with stiff politeness 'for having encroached in this way on your busy day, Mr. Elsmere.
Robert's bright eyes were fixed on the squire, and before Mr. Wendover stopped Catherine could see the words of reply trembling on his lips. 'I am well content, he said, with a curious dry intensity of tone. 'I give you your Renan. Only leave us poor dupes our illusions. We will not quarrel with the division.
'Oh, in that case I certainly on so short an acquaintance would not go sight-seeing with you. 'Well, I am glad I'm American, said Mr. Wendover, sitting opposite to her. 'Yes, you may thank your fate. It's much simpler, Laura added. 'Oh, you spoil it! the young man exclaimed a speech of which she took no notice but which made her think him brighter, as they used to say at home. Mr.
'Is that the skeleton in this very magnificent cupboard? 'It has been the Wendover scourge from the beginning, so I hear. Every one about here of course explains this man's eccentricities by the family history. But I don't know, said Robert, his lip hardening, 'it may be extremely convenient sometimes to have a tradition of the kind.
Robert, catching Catherine's quick compression of the lips, was grateful to him, and the conversation moved on in another direction. Yes, certainly, all things considered, Mr. Wendover made himself agreeable.
Lady Palliser went downstairs, and again interrogated the housemaid who had witnessed Sir Vernou's departure. 'How had Mr. Wendover seemed? she asked 'good-tempered, and pleasant, and quiet? Very good-tempered, and very pleasant, the girl told her, but not quiet; he talked and laughed a great deal, and seemed full of fun, but in a great hurry.
For some unknown reason she had fancied the master of the Abbey like that Sir Tristram Wendover who had been so loyal a subject and so brave a soldier, and before whose portrait she had so often lingered in dreamy contemplation. 'And you have really come all the way from Norway to be at Bessie's picnic? she faltered at last, feeling that she was expected to say something.
'I hope not too much, or I shall be too sharply reminded that Miss Wendover has taken me out of charity. 'Charity fiddlestick! A prize-winner like you! And now good-bye, pet, or I shall be late for dinner, which offends the Colonel beyond measure. Bessie scampered off, Ida following her to the glass door, only in time to see her running across the lawn as fast as her feet could carry her.
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