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Updated: June 15, 2025
He had been at Wimperfield village, and through two other villages, and had taken a circuitous way back by another meadow-stream, where there might be a hope of trout; but he had seen no trace of the missing boy. The field labourers he had met had been able to give him no information. There was nothing to be done but to wait, and wait, and wait.
I am a very insignificant person nothing but my father's daughter. Brian and I are only here on sufferance. 'Oh, that's nonsense, dear. I heard Sir Reginald tell my father that Wimperfield was to be your home and Brian's as long as ever you both like as long as your father lives, in fact. Brian can have his chambers in town, and work at his profession, but you are to live at Wimperfield.
The new baronet utterly refused to be governed by the hard and fast rules of the 'Creme de la Creme. He daily did things which were absolute and awful heresies in the sight of that authority, and Lady Palliser was sorely exercised at her very first dinner-party by seeing the county people of Wimperfield setting at naught the precepts of the anonymous Countess at every stage of the evening.
Sir Reginald Palliser had a large way of conferring benefits, which was instinctive in a man of his open and careless temper. Having given Brian Wendover what he called the run of his teeth at Wimperfield, he had no idea of limiting the privileges of residence there.
It was midsummer weather, and the rose garden at Wimperfield, that garden which had been Ida's own peculiar care for the last four years, the garden which she had improved and beautified with every art learned from that ardent rose-worshipper Aunt Betsy, was glorious with its first blooms.
From the moment Miss Wendover appeared at Wimperfield on the afternoon after the fire, coming as quickly after the receipt of the news as horses could convey her, Ida had been sheltered and protected by her love.
He had forgotten Brian's melancholy doom, as easily as youth is apt to forget everything, in the hurry and ardour of life's morning; but his love for his sister knew no abatement. He wanted her to share in all his future joys. 'You are not going to stay at the Homestead all your life, are you? he asked one day. 'Of course you are going back to Wimperfield directly the new house is finished?
The two women grieved together in a mournful solitude for the first day on which the house was darkened, and the presence of death was palpable in their midst. Brian hurried down to Wimperfield directly the news reached him. He was agitated by the event, which had happened without any note of warning.
Wimperfield Park was almost at its best upon such an afternoon as this, the turf soft and springy after autumnal rains, the atmosphere tranquil and balmy, and all animal creation deer, oxen, rabbits, feathered game, and an innumerable army of rooks full of life and motion. Ida was slow to reply to Bessie's news about her cousin.
Of those good things which the blind goddess had flung into his lap nothing was too good for his daughter or his daughter's husband in Sir Reginald's opinion. Happily for the domestic peace, Lady Palliser was able to get on harmoniously with her stepdaughter's husband, and was not disposed to grudge him the luxuries of Wimperfield.
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