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Updated: August 13, 2024
Julius's wife seems, like Julius, to be uneasily conscious of the lapse of time. Like Julius again, she privately wonders how long Lady Lundie is going to stay. Lady Lundie shows no signs of leaving the sofa. She has evidently come to Holchester House to say something and she has not said it yet. Is she going to say it? Yes. She is going to get, by a roundabout way, to the object in view.
Perry's respects." Julius opened the volume. It was the ghastly popular record of Criminal Trials in England, called the Newgate Calendar. Julius showed it to his mother. "Geoffrey's taste in literature!" he said, with a faint smile. Lady Holchester signed to him to put the book back. "You have seen Geoffrey's wife already have you not?" she asked.
He burst fiercely into a forced laugh. Lady Holchester rose at the moment when Anne was leaving the room. "I shall not be here when you return," she said. "Let me bid you good-night." She shook hands with Anne giving her Sir Patrick's note, unseen, at the same moment. Anne left the room. Without addressing another word to her second son, Lady Holchester beckoned to Julius to give her his arm.
"How can he acknowledge it to us?" The door opened, and Geoffrey entered the room. Julius eyed him closely as they shook hands. His eyes were bloodshot; his face was flushed; his utterance was thick the look of him was the look of a man who had been drinking hard. "Well?" he said to his mother. "What brings you back?" "Julius has a proposal to make to you," Lady Holchester answered.
"The postman has just given me a letter for you, through the grating in the gate," she answered. "I have put it on the table in there." He went in. The handwriting on the address of the letter was the handwriting of Mrs. Glenarm. He put it unread into his pocket, and went back to Anne. "Step out!" he said. "We shall lose the train." They started for their visit to Holchester House.
The father found nothing to object to in the report except the son's absence from the field of action. He blamed Lady Holchester for summoning Julius to London. He was annoyed at his son's being there, at the bedside, when he ought to have been addressing the electors. "It's inconvenient, Julius," he said, petulantly. "Don't you see it yourself?"
Didn't I say in Mrs. Dethridge's presence I wanted to make it up?" He waited until Anne had answered in the affirmative, and then appealed to his mother. "Well? what do you think now?" Lady Holchester declined to reveal what she thought. "You shall see me, or hear from me, this evening," she said to Anne. Geoffrey attempted to repeat his unanswered question. His mother looked at him.
"No waiting for the lawyer!" he repeated, vehemently. "This is a matter of life and death. Lady Holchester bitterly resents her son's marriage. She speaks and feels as a friend of Mrs. Glenarm. Do you think Lord Holchester would take the same view if he knew of it?" "It depends entirely on the circumstances."
The London Gazette announced him to the world as Baron Holchester of Holchester. And the friends of the family rubbed their hands and said, "What did we tell you? Here are our two young friends, Julius and Geoffrey, the sons of a lord!" And where was Mr. Vanborough all this time? Exactly where we left him five years since. He was as rich, or richer, than ever. He was as well-connected as ever.
Having stated these facts, her ladyship is about to make a few of those "remarks appropriate to the occasion," in which she excels, when the door opens; and Lady Holchester, in search of her missing husband, enters the room. There is a new outburst of affectionate interest on Lady Lundie's part met civilly, but not cordially, by Lady Holchester.
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