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Then her ladyship retired into the country with her husband, who was greatly gratified in the dutiful interest she showed in him and his farm. All love of intrigue seemed to have died out when her flirtation with Adrien ended, nor was it ever revived. Society also lost its fashionable monarch, as far as Leroy was concerned.
And with that he administered a blow to her. This indecency was reported to me. I did not take long in discovering what it was right to do with Adrien. I had him sent to Clagny, where I happened to be at the time.
It was not until a warning cough roused them, that Adrien started, and became aware of the presence of Mr. Jasper Vermont. While the preparations for the ball at Barminster Castle had been going on apace, trouble and confusion reigned in the little village on the banks of the Thames. No sooner had Mr.
When darkness came, worn out by watching and waiting in vain for Adrien, she again found herself without a home and without shelter; so, crouching on a doorstep, as she had done the previous evening, overcome with fatigue, she fell asleep. In the course of the night a dark-robed woman, passing on the usual round of duty assigned to her, stopped and looked at her.
"He will love me yet," she whispered to herself triumphantly, as, with outward calmness, she bade him au revoir till they should meet at dinner. Adrien went straight to his own rooms. An unusual restlessness was upon him, and his pulses throbbed wildly, but as yet he did not understand what these things meant.
"I have been so bothered with various business matters, and have had so many engagements " "But yet had the time to go to the theatre with that awful creature," she retorted. "Then you have been spending a day or two at Barminster." She bit her lip savagely in her jealous pain and wounded vanity. "Adrien," she entreated, "tell me it isn't true." "To what do you refer?" he asked steadily.
Few people had ever seen the stern lines of that face relax in light-hearted laughter since the death of his young wife, which had occurred a few years after the birth of Adrien. None, outside his immediate family circle, had ever known the curtness of his speech to be softened unless in sarcasm; and his habitual expression was one of haughty tolerance.
"I am sure you do your best to help him," she said, after a moment's pause. "You are most kind," he returned with a bow and an ironic smile. "I trust you will let me prove my friendship both to Adrien and yourself." It was the night on which Adrien had returned to town.
"Adrien is so set on the man, that even with these proofs we shall hardly convince him of his treachery other than from Vermont's own mouth." "Yes," said Lord Barminster with a sigh. "I think you are right. But how is this to be managed?" "I have brought with me the girl, Jessica, to whom I referred just now, and her aunt, Miss Ada Lester," said Mr. Harker.
"She had better come up to the bedroom, poor lady." Adrien carried Eveline up the narrow staircase, followed by Lucy, who had hastily produced some spirits with which to restore consciousness. "You had better fetch a doctor, sir," she called after Adrien, as he came down again. Leroy hesitated. He knew that Lady Merivale valued her reputation more than her life.
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