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'My mother tells me that she ran away from Glanyravon, and report says with somebody we know of. But report was false as usual; and she turns up again as Miss Gwynne's lady's maid. Miss Gwynne is about as eccentric as the rest of the clique, and I wish her joy of her bargain. The girl is a beauty, certainly, but 'Hush, Howel! cried Netta; 'Owen was nearly boxing my ears about her just now.
Captain Dancy and Miss Simpson, who accompanied the pair, were duly impressed with the loyalty of Howel's subjects, and were not particularly shown the little shop to which he owed their sudden devotion. 'Jenkins, the miser, was quite swallowed up in 'Howel Jenkins, Esq., and 'Netta Prothero, Glanyravon, was engulphed in his wife. So goes the world.
'But it is no wonder that I am too decided sometimes, when my father is so dreadfully weak and vacillating, she said to herself; 'indeed I do not think, after all, that one can be too decided in this irresolute world. This very decided young lady is the only child and supposed heiress of Gwynne of Glanyravon, as her father is usually called.
Ruskin would not consider Glanyravon, with its heavy porch, massive square walls, and innumerable long windows, a good specimen of architectural beauty; still it is a most comfortable dwelling, beautifully situated; and the magnificent woods at the back, and grand view in front, would make the most unartistic building picturesque in appearance if not in reality.
Mr Rice Rice, junior, and Sir Hugh wished that they were good chess players. It was quite an honour to be invited to a family party at Glanyravon. 'Put the chess-table into the book-room, Winifred, and lock the door. Mr Gwynne actually rose in the excitement of the moment. 'If the servants come they will disturb the men, and and all that sort of thing, you know.
At last he fell in with a farmer's wife whom he knew, who was jogging along on horseback, with a little boy behind her. After the usual greetings, he said, 'You never come to Glanyravon now, Mrs Davies. I daresay you haven't seen any of our folk for a year? 'Well, not exactly. But I almost fancied I saw that pretty young 'ooman that lives with you yesterday morning.
'You are a good, kind, little cousin, Netta; but what can you mean about Sir Hugh? Netta tossed her head, and looked vain-glorious. 'Oh, I dined at Glanyravon on Thursday, and the Rice Rices, and Nugents, and Sir Hugh were there; and Sir Hugh was very attentive to me, and said a great many things to me.
Freda was so studiously polite in her manners to him, and so careful to avoid every subject that would recall their old relations at Glanyravon, that he gradually felt more at his ease with her, and it ended by his resuming his old, friendly intercourse with Mr and Mrs Jones.
And still my promise to his father is binding, and without his consent I never could but where am I wandering? Maybe he'll not care for me now I am all this older and he so handsome that he may have any one in and about Glanyravon. Gladys cast a shy look into her glass, and a delicate blush kindled her cheek as those dark violet eyes glanced from beneath their long black fringes.
He is flattered by the constant attentions, and little notes, and insinuating manners of a very handsome, fashionable, agreeable woman; and she thinks Glanyravon Park and a man of fortune that she will be able to turn round her fingers, better than the jointure she will have to live upon when her daughter leaves her.
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