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Updated: June 12, 2025
"If you only knew how I have lain awake thinking of it. Still, I wouldn't say 'yes. I have kept the poor dear man in suspense till your return. He is quite ridiculously well, in love with me, I suppose he would call it." "Obviously you are nothing of the kind," suggested Mark. "In love with Colonel Faversham!" she cried, with a laugh. "You know, Mark, he is most horridly jealous."
On learning that Bridget was good to look upon and only a few months older that Carrissima, Colonel Faversham blinked his eyes and fingered his large grey moustache. He took a cigar from his case by and by, Carrissima trying to stifle her yawns while he talked about golf and described some of his hands at bridge.
Faversham, in spite of his look of youth, much impaired for the present by the results of his accident, was not so very young; he had just passed his thirtieth birthday, and Melrose soon discovered that he had seen a good deal both of the natural and the human worlds.
The radical alteration in his habits and outlook which the preceding six weeks had produced, the excitement of unpacking the treasures now displayed in the gallery, the constant thinkings and plannings connected with Faversham and the future, and, lastly, the interview just concluded, had tried his strength. Certain symptoms symptoms of old age annoyed him though he would not admit it.
Melrose apparently sat down at once to write a codicil revoking the will. He was disturbed, came out into the gallery, and was shot dead. The few lines he wrote are of course of no validity. The will holds, and Faversham is the heir to everything. You see" he paused again "some awkward suggestions might be made." "But," cried Tatham, "you say Dixon saw the man?
At the top of the hill, Faversham, to give the youth his name, stopped to look at the wall, which was remarkable for height and strength. The thick wood on his right hid any building there might be on the farther side of the stream. But clearly this was the Ogre's wall ogreish indeed!
All that we ate my mother and I we had to work for. And now you have made me rich. It's it's very wonderful. I only wish" the sob rose again "just that last time my father had been kind to me. I thank you with all my heart. But I can't take it all, you know I can't!" She looked at him appealing almost threatening. Faversham smiled at her. "That doesn't lie with you!
He blew out his cheeks, put back his shoulders and fixed his eyeglass as if he wished to examine Jimmy more distinctly. "I should like to know," he said, "what my engagement has to do with you!" "Nothing in the world," returned Jimmy, "if it still exists. That is all I am anxious to hear whether it does or not." Colonel Faversham stood glaring into Jimmy's face.
Faversham shook his head. "Thank you impossible." Then he looked up. "Undershaw told you what I told him?" Tatham assented. There was an awkward pause broken at last by Faversham. "How did Miss Melrose get home?" "Luckily I came across her at the foot of the Duddon hill, and I helped her home. She's all right though of course it's a ghastly shock for them."
I went away in a chastened mood, no longer wrathful, for what could woman do more for mortal man than what Eleanor Faversham had attempted? She had gone to see whether she should stand against her rival, and with a superb generosity, unprecedented in her sex, she had withdrawn. The magnanimity of it overwhelmed me. I walked along the street exalting her to viewless pinnacles of high-heartedness.
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