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"I will try I will begin at once. And even if nothing comes of it, it will be nice to think it may be of use to you, to know about the people." "Very well," said Howard, "that is a bargain. It is exactly what I want. Do begin at once, and let me have the first instalment of the Chronicles of Windlow." They had arrived by this time at a point high on the downs.
But he knew in himself that it was not so; he could speak of his intimate ideas very readily upon slight acquaintance, because they were not to him matters of deep feeling; but the moment that they really moved him, he felt absolutely dumb and tongue-tied. He established himself at Windlow, and became at once aware that his aunt perceived that there was something amiss.
He has no end of money, I know, but he can be so rude, and Mrs. Aplin is so patronizing. Now, why should they be called such 'nice people'?" Kitty straightened herself up, put on a very knowing look, and repeated parrot-like what she had heard older persons say, "Mrs. Aplin was a Windlow." "What in the world is a Windlow?" asked Laura, rather sarcastically.
"I won't be a hindrance; you must just hang me up like a bird in a cage that's what I am to sing to you when you are at leisure." The way in which the people at Windlow took the news was very characteristic. Howard frankly did not care how they regarded it. Mr. Sandys was frankly and hugely delighted. He apologised to Howard for having mentioned the subject of Guthrie to him.
The only thing which bothered him was the incursions of callers, to which his marriage seemed to have rendered the house liable. Howard loved monotony, and in the little Windlow party he found everything that he desired. At first it all rather amused him, because he felt as though he were acting in a charming and absurd play, and he was delighted to see Maud act her wedded part. Mrs.
"No," said Howard, "not to Windlow; I stayed with them once when I was a boy, when Uncle John was alive but that was at Bristol. What sort of a place is Windlow? I suppose Aunt Anne is pretty well off?"
"Why don't you make a rhyme and say, 'Oh, Kitty, you're so witty'? But, Laura, it is you who are odd and ridiculous, to pretend that you don't know that Windlow is one of the oldest names of one of the oldest families who came over to America in the Mayflower, regular old aristocrats."
I do not deny, of course, that your position at Windlow makes the arrangement a still more comfortable one; but I have always said that my children must marry whom they would; and I should have welcomed you, my dear Howard, as a son-in-law, under any circumstances." Jack, on the contrary, was rather more cautious in his congratulations.
Graves to suggest a visit; he added that he felt ashamed of himself for never coming, "but Monica says that you would like to see me, and Monica is generally right." That evening Jack came in to say good-bye. He did not look forwards to the vacation at all, he said; "Windlow is simply the limit! I believe it's the dullest place in the kingdom!"
But there is nothing I could do; and I can't leave papa." "Oh, it will all come right!" said Howard feebly; "there are fifty things that might happen. And now I must be off! Mind, you must let me have the book some time; that will serve to remind me of Windlow in the intervals of Greek prose." He got up and shook hands. He felt he was behaving stupidly and unkindly.
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