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She apparently had some difficulty in remembering him, for at first she gave not the slightest evidence of recognition; but after the other lady had moved away she was more fortunate in placing him. "You have known the Wentworths for some time?" Keith did not know whether this was a statement or an inquiry. She had a way of giving a tone of interrogation to her statements.
By-and-by a hurried light gleamed in the window of the summer-house, and sounds of commotion were audible in the orderly dwelling of the Miss Wentworths; and the next thing that happened was the appearance of Miss Leonora, also with a shawl over her head, at the garden-door.
"They are a queer family, the Wentworths," said old Mr Western, "and such lots of them, sir such lots of them. The old ladies seem to have settled down here. I am not of their way of thinking, you know, but they're very good to the poor."
She said to herself that Frank had a great deal of temper, and resembled his mother's family more than the Wentworths, as she went back to her writing-table; and though she could not disapprove of him, she felt vexed somehow at his rectitude and his impatience of advice; whereas, Jack, poor fellow! who had been a great sinner, was, according to all appearance, a great penitent also, and a true Wentworth, with all the family features.
I came down to look after him, out of kind feeling," said the heir of the Wentworths. "If you don't mean to eat any dinner, have a cigar." "And what have you to do with each other? what is the connection between you?" said the Curate of St Roque's. "I have my reasons, as you say, for taking an interest in him but you "
I should say so!" cried Will, starting up and looking rather red as he recalled his own words. "Yes, and everything, all about the dogs and the difference between the Wentworths and the Pelhams," took up Peggy, dimpling with smiles. "Oh, I say now," began Will. "Yes, you may say now just what you did then. I liked it, I liked it. It was sensible and plucky of you, and it was such fun.
In the elective contests we saw some of the peculiar talent with which Lang fought his many political foes, when, with an inimitable blandness of address, and the softest of mellifluous language, he would build up a many-sided argument, patiently and leisurely, and at last, as with the bitterly biting end of a stockman's long whip, flay the Wentworths of opposition, who, with more noise than effect, were ever snapping at his heels.
"Fanny's a snob. It makes me sick to hear her talk sometimes. If she were here now, she'd be full of these Pelhams, and as thick with 'em when they came, whether they were nice or not. If they were ever so nice, she'd snub 'em if they were not up in the world, what you call 'swells. She never got such stuff as that from the Wentworths."
But his reflections were far from being agreeable as he ate his beef-steak. Here he was, without any fault of his own, plunged into the midst of a complication of disgrace and vice. Perhaps already the name of Lucy Wodehouse was branded with her brother's shame; perhaps still more overwhelming infamy might overtake, through that means, the heir and the name of the Wentworths.
He had dined at the Wentworths' house more than once, and he began to search in his memory for any face or figure which should recall Sir John's sister to his mind. But he could not remember her, and concluded, therefore, that she was in no way remarkable. "I think I have not met Miss Pynsent," he took an opportunity of saying, by way of an attempt to refresh his memory. "No?
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