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Updated: May 31, 2025
"How those fools of Wylders will squirm when I cut the rascal off with a shilling, and settle the property on the man the little lady refused! But Dick will never be such a fool! He cannot reconcile his puritanism with such brazen-faced conduct! I shall never make a gentleman of him! He will revert to the original type! It had disappeared in his mother!
The Wylders and Brandons have always been contesting the right to these estates, and the same thing may arise again any day. 'But tell me, Stanley, how do you want to apply money? What particular good can it do us in this unpleasant uncertainty? 'Well, Dorkie, believe me I have a sure instinct in matters of this kind. Larkin is plotting treason against us.
The chapel was growing dark, and its stone and marble company of bygone Wylders and Brandons were losing themselves in shadow. Part of the periwig and cheek of Sir Marcus Brandon still glimmered whitish, as at a little distance did also the dim marble face and arm of the young Countess of Lydingworth, mourning these hundred and thirty years over her dead baby.
There, among old Wylder and Brandon tombs some painted stone effigies of the period of Elizabeth and the first James, and some much older stone and marble knights praying on their backs with their spurs on, and said to have been removed nearly three hundred years ago from the Abbey of Naunton Friars, when that famous monastery began to lose its roof and turn into a picturesque ruin, and by-gone generations of Wylders and Brandons had offered up their conspicuous devotions, with judging from their heathen lives I fear no very remarkable efficacy.
There is a stained window in the east which connoisseurs in that branch of mediaeval art admire. There is another very fine one over the Brandon pew a freak, perhaps, of some of those old Brandons or Wylders, who had a strange spirit of cynicism mingling in their profligacy and violence.
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