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In the same neighbourhood is Allington Castle, an ivy-mantled ruin, another example of vanished glory, only two tenements occupying the princely residence of the Wyatts, famous in the history of State and Letters. Sir Henry, the father of the poet, felt the power of the Hunchback Richard, and was racked and imprisoned in Scotland, and would have died in the Tower of London but for a cat.
"That's the medicine!" he cried. "I wonder how you like that, you Butlers an' Johnsons an' Wyatts an' Mohawks an' all the rest o' your scalp-taking crew! Ah, thar goes another! This ain't any Wyomin'!" The three-pounders also opened fire, and sent their balls squarely into the rifle pits and the Indian camp.
Pale sunlight was pouring through the window. He closed his eyes; his head still ached vilely. He got up late, and dressed with a bad grace. He ate no breakfast. He tried to remember whether he had promised to go round to the Wyatts' that morning or not; everything was a blank in his mind except the one fact that he was engaged to Christine. He could remember that clearly enough, at all events.
He caught her fingers and kissed them. "Darling, I'll come back for you when the show's over. I can't bear to leave you like this. You do love me?" "Do you need to ask?" The words were an evasion, but he did not notice it. He went back to the stage box feeling as if the world had come to an end. He forgot all about the Wyatts in the stalls below.
Am engaged to Christine Wyatt, of Upton House. You remember her. He never signed himself "Jimmy" when he was writing to the Great Horatio. The cable, together with his brother's address, cost him fifteen shillings; he grudged the expense, but he supposed it had to be sent. He wandered on again up the street. He had some lunch by himself, and went back to the Wyatts' hotel.
Jimmy stifled an oath under his breath as he shut the door. Sangster was the last man he wished to see at the present moment. He kept his eyes averted as he came forward. "Hallo!" he said. "Been here long?" "All the evening. Thought you'd sure to be in. Costin said you'd be in to dinner, he thought." "I meant to . . . stayed with the Wyatts, though." Jimmy helped himself to a whiskey.
It was "Home" and any member of the family wanting to go "Home" did so regardless of who might be in immediate possession. Nevil Aston, his wife and two small children and his young sister-in-law lived there permanently, but their position was that of fortunate caretakers, and both the elder Aston and the Wyatts went to and fro at their will.
"What are you doing to-night, Jimmy?" he asked, "I'm at a loose end " Jimmy turned. "I'm taking some people to the theatre old friends! Met them quite by chance the other night. Haven't you heard me speak of them the Wyatts?" "By Jove, yes!" Sangster dropped the poker unceremoniously. "People from Upton House.
"That is, he wanted to make Braxton Wyatts out of us?" said Paul. "You put it exactly right, Paul," said Henry, "I laughed at him, and called him by the names that belonged to him. He brought in Braxton Wyatt and the soldiers and ordered me to be put in irons, there in his presence." "What!" exclaimed Paul, "did he dare that, too?" "Yes. His object, of course, was to humiliate me and all of us.
He was bruised all over by the treatment he had received from Cynthia Farrow; he wanted balm poured on his wounds. The hall porter told him that Mrs. Wyatt was out, but that he thought the young lady "It's Miss Wyatt I wish to see," said Jimmy impatiently. After a moment he was asked to come upstairs. He knew the Wyatts had a private sitting-room. Christine was there by the fire when he entered.
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