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He would not have believed her capable of it and he felt so kindly disposed towards her little as she deserved it if he had only known! Then when these gayeties were over, he and Zara would come here to Wrayth! And he could not help picturing how he would make love to her in this romantic setting; and perhaps soon she, too, would love him.
It must be because she was only half English, and foreigners perhaps had different points of reasoning on all such questions. The man had gone, then out of her life. Yes, he would take her back to Wrayth if it would be any comfort to her. "Will you get ready now?" he said, controlling his voice into a note of sternness which he was far from feeling.
And then, when the walls were up, he died, and it was not decorated until thirty-five years later, in the Regent's time, and it was turned into a picture gallery then." "People's brands of individuality in their houses are so interesting," Francis Markrute said. "I believe Wrayth is a series of human fancies, from the Norman Castle upwards, is it not? I have never been there." "Oh!
It was in the schoolhouse at Wrayth, where the buxom girl who had been assistant mistress, and had married, a year before, brought her first-born son to show the lord and lady as he had been born on their wedding day, just a fortnight ago!
"Please I know you are angry with me for not telling you about Mirko and Mimo, but I had promised not to, and the poor, little one is dead. I will tell you everything presently, if you wish, but don't ask me to now. Oh! if you must go from me soon you know best I will not keep you, but but please won't you take me with you to-day back to Wrayth just until I get quite well?
Before the Canada scheme had presented itself he had rather thought of joining with a friend for another trip to the Soudan: it might not be too late still, when they had got over the Wrayth ordeal, the tenants' dinners, and the speeches, and the cruel mockery of it all.
Anglin will show you the toilet-service of gold, which was given by Louis XIV to a French grandmother and which the Ladies Tancred always use, when they are at Wrayth. I hope you won't find the brushes too hard," and he laughed and went out. And Zara, overcome with the state and beauty and tradition of it all, sat down upon the sofa for a moment to try to control her pain.
And with this she was obliged to rest content. But all the way back in the train she saw the picture of the Italian parterre at Wrayth with the statue of Pan, in the center of the star, playing his pipes. The second wedding day of Zara Shulski dawned with a glorious sun. One of those autumn mornings that seem like a return to the spring so fresh and pure the air.
The vista was immense. She could see far beyond, down an incline, through a long clearing in the park, far away to the tower of Wrayth church. "How beautiful it all is!" she said, with bated breath, and clasped her hands in her muff. "And how wonderful to have the knowledge that your family has been here always, and these splendid things are their creation.
"Men have to be like that," said Mary, wisely, "they must have some one, I mean, to play with, and they are afraid of girls." "How I hope she will like us, don't you?" Emily said. "Mr. Markrute is very rich and perhaps she is, too. How lovely it will be if they are able to live at Wrayth. How lovely to have it opened again to go and stay there!" "Yes, indeed," said Mary.
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