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Hospitality was a natural instinct of his being, and he invited Brian Wendover to take up his abode at Wimperfield as easily as he would have offered him a cigar. 'There are no end of rooms. It is a regular barrack, he said. 'You and Ida can be very comfortable without putting my little woman or me out of the way.
These Wimperfield servants were models; but they did not disguise their quiet contempt for a lady who was evidently a stranger in that sphere where powdered footmen and elaborate dinners are among the indispensables of existence.
There was a piece of waste land in front of this inn which served as the theatre for such itinerary exhibitors, Cheap Jacks, and Bohemians of all kinds who took quiet little Wimperfield in the course of their perambulations. Here to-night in the dusk, there stood a covered cart of the pedler order and Vernon, who had been walking on in front with Mr.
He hated the country, and Wimperfield would be only a shade better than Kingthorpe; but it was essential that he should please his easy-tempered father-in-law. 'If he wanted me to live in the moon I should have to go there! he said to himself.
Good God, how old I am getting! yes, you had better bring her to Wimperfield next week, and then we can get better acquainted with you, and I shall see what I can do for you both. This no doubt meant a handsome allowance. Brian Walford felt, for the first time in his life, that he had fallen on his feet.
Bessie's first letter reached her within a few days of her arrival at Wimperfield a loving little letter, full of sorrowful expressions about the two good young fellows who were gone, yet not concealing the writer's pleasure at her friend's elevation.
Wendover found it was more convenient that his town and country residences should be completely distinct; and it had gradually become an accepted fact at Wimperfield that Temple Chambers were a kind of habitation which a man's wife could hardly visit without violating the first principles of legal etiquette. Brian Walford was speedily reassured as to his position at Wimperfield.
He wanted his uncle and aunts to see that he was thought much of at Wimperfield that he was a valued member of the household, respected and liked by his wife's family, that he had done well for himself by his marriage, and that whatever cloud had overshadowed the opening of his wedded life had vanished altogether from his horizon.
'No, dear, I could never live at Wimperfield again, it would recall too many sad scenes. When Aunt Betsy is tired of me I shall go abroad. I have seen so little of the world, you know. 'Oh, if you want to travel, you can go with me when I come of age; but in the meantime you must help mother to keep house at Wimperfield.
Besides, I thought you would like to see your cousins and your ancestral halls. 'I shall be very glad to see my cousins, for my father likes them very much; but I do not feel any thrilling interest in the ancestral halls. 'And yet your father was born there. 'Yes, that is a reason for being interested in Wimperfield. But my father has so seldom talked about his birthplace.
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