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It must always be a surprise even to a prophet when a dumb creature speaks, and in a certain sense Mrs. Wrottesley had always been dumb. And now, after years of silence and affectionate wifely submission, Mrs. Wrottesley was asserting herself. 'You must be reasonable, dear, her husband said at last. Mrs.
The border is loftiest on the E., where the ring-plain Wrottesley abuts on it. It rises at this point to nearly 11,000 feet, while on the opposite side it nowhere greatly exceeds 6000 feet above the interior. The terraces, however, on the W. are much more numerous, and, with the associated valleys, render this section of the wall one of the most striking objects of its class.
For Mrs. Wrottesley was failing in health, and in her own plain, unostentatious way she had made up her mind that her time for quitting this world was not very far off.
Canon Wrottesley felt that he could not do better than see Miss Abingdon in person and explain the change of plans, and he arrived, in his friendly way, just as she and some guests who were staying with her were going in to luncheon.
She accepted a glass of Miss Abingdon's very special claret and never even touched it; and later, in one of the pauses of her elaborate trifling at luncheon, she told a funny story which made every one laugh, and caused even Canon Wrottesley to attempt to conceal the fact that he saw the point of the story. The worst of it was that Toffy encouraged her in everything she said and did.
In this way only can we shut people's mouths and prevent their talking, and although I don't like anything in the form of secrecy or underhand actions, no one need know that you have been staying here. 'I am afraid, said Mrs. Wrottesley, still in that unyielding tone of gentle regret, 'that it is too late to keep my movements secret.
Lawrence is proverbially ill-natured in his own kind way, and it would not have been unlike him to omit the fact that I was staying with you during the time Mrs. Avory was here. 'She came down yesterday afternoon to say good-bye to me, said Toffy eagerly. 'And I arrived by the same train, said Mrs. Wrottesley, 'which was very convenient.
This was a much more unusual event with her than with most people, and what made it more forcible was that she began to speak deliberately and with intention. 'I am going to stay at Hulworth, said Mrs. Wrottesley. 'Pack my box, please, and order the carriage to be round in half an hour.
Wrottesley wore brown merino and a mantle, but these hid a great soul securely held in check and narrowed down by a strict adherence to the small conventions and paralysing rules which society seems to have prescribed for vicars and their wives in the rural parishes of England. She prayed every morning of her life for more faith, and meant by that a narrower creed. Mrs.
Ogilvie is a rich woman, said Canon Wrottesley, enjoying a proprietary way of talking of his neighbour, 'and she is able to gratify her love of beautiful raiment. I do not understand these things myself, he went on, with a masculine air, 'but the ladies tell me that her dresses are all that they should be.
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