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The Shuttle Chapter 4 - A Mistake of the Postboy's · The Frances Hodgson Burnett Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter four of the shuttle chapter four a mistake of
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  Speaker 1: the post boys as the weeks passed at stornham court
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  Speaker 1: the atlantic ocean seemed to rosalie anstruthers to widen endlessly
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  Speaker 1: and gay happy noisy new york to recede until it
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  Speaker 1: was as far away as some memory of heaven the
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  Speaker 1: girl had been born in the midst of the rattling
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  Speaker 1: rumbling bustle and it had never struck her as assuming
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  Speaker 1: the character of noise She had only thought of it
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  Speaker 1: as being the cheerful confusion inseparable from town. She had
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  Speaker 1: been secretly offended and hurt when strangers said that New
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  Speaker 1: York was noisy and dirty. When they called it vulgar,
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  Speaker 1: she never wholly forgave them. She was of the New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers who adore their New York, as Parisians adore Paris,
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  Speaker 1: and who feel that only within its beloved boundaries can
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  Speaker 1: the breath of life be breathed. People were often too
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  Speaker 1: hot or too cold there, but there was usually plenty
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  Speaker 1: of bright, glaring sun, and the extremes of the weather
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  Speaker 1: had at least something rather dramatic about them. There were
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  Speaker 1: dramatic incidents connected with them at any rate. People fell
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  Speaker 1: dead of sunstroke or were frozen to death, and the
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  Speaker 1: newspapers were full of anecdotes during a cold snap or
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  Speaker 1: a torrid wave, which all made for excitement and conversation.
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  Speaker 1: But at Stornham the rain seemed to young Lady Anstruthers
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  Speaker 1: to descend ceaselessly. The season was a wet one, and
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  Speaker 1: when she rose in the morning and looked out over
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  Speaker 1: the huge stretch of trees and sward, she thought she
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  Speaker 1: always saw the rain falling, either in hopeless sheets or
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  Speaker 1: more hopeless drizzle. The occasions upon which this was a
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  Speaker 1: dreary truth blotted out or blurred the exceptions, when in
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  Speaker 1: liquid ultramarine deeps of sky floated islands and mountains of
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  Speaker 1: snow-white fleece, of a beauty of which she had before
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  Speaker 1: had no conception. In the English novels she had read,
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  Speaker 1: places such as Stornham Court were always filled with house-parties,
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  Speaker 1: made up of wonderful town wits and beauties, who provided
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  Speaker 1: endless entertainment for each other, who played games, who hunted
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  Speaker 1: and shot pheasants, and shone in dazzling amateur theatricals. There were, however,
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  Speaker 1: no visitors at Stornham, and there were in fact no
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  Speaker 1: accommodations for any. There were numberless bedrooms, but none really
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  Speaker 1: fit for guests to occupy. Carpets and curtains were ancient
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  Speaker 1: and ragged. furniture was dilapidated chimneys would not draw beds
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  Speaker 1: were falling to pieces the dowager lady anstruthers had never
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  Speaker 1: either attracted desired or been able to afford company her
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  Speaker 1: son's wife suffered from the resulting boredom and unpopularity without
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  Speaker 1: being able to comprehend the significance of the situation as
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  Speaker 1: the weeks dragged by a few heavy carriages deposited at
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  Speaker 1: the court a few callers some of the visitors bore
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  Speaker 1: imposing titles which made Rosalie very nervous, and caused her
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  Speaker 1: hastily to array herself to receive them in toilettes much
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  Speaker 1: too pretty and delicate for the occasion. Her innocent idea
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  Speaker 1: was that she must do her husband credit by appearing
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  Speaker 1: as stylish as possible. As a result she was stared at,
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  Speaker 1: either with open disfavour or with well-bred, furtive criticism, and
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  Speaker 1: was described afterwards as being either very American or very overdressed.
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  Speaker 1: When she had lived in huge rooms in Fifth Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: Rosalie had changed her attire as many times a day
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  Speaker 1: as she had changed her fancy. Every hour had been
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  Speaker 1: filled with engagements and amusements. The Vanderpool carriages had driven
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  Speaker 1: up to the door and driven away, again and again
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  Speaker 1: through the mornings and afternoons and until midnight and later.
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  Speaker 1: Someone was always going out or coming in. There had
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  Speaker 1: been in the big handsome house not much more of
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  Speaker 1: an air of repose than one might expect to find
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  Speaker 1: at a railway station. but the flurry, the coming and going,
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  Speaker 1: the calling and chatting had all been cheery, amiable. At Stornham,
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  Speaker 1: Rosalie sat at breakfast before unchanging boiled eggs, unfailing toast,
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  Speaker 1: and unalterable broiled bacon, morning after morning. Sir Nigel sat
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  Speaker 1: and munched over the newspapers, his mother, with an air
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  Speaker 1: of relentless disapproval from a lofty height of both her
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  Speaker 1: food and companions, disposed of her eggs and her rasher
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  Speaker 1: at Rosalie's right hand. She had transferred to her daughter-in-law
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  Speaker 1: her previously occupied seat at the head of the table.
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  Speaker 1: This had been done with a carefully prepared scene of intense,
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  Speaker 1: though correct, disagreeableness, in which she had managed to convey
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  Speaker 1: all the rancour of her dethroned spirit and her disapproval
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  Speaker 1: and disdain of international alliances.' It is, of course, proper
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  Speaker 1: that you should sit at the head of your husband's table,'
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  Speaker 1: she had said, among other agreeable things.' A woman, having
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  Speaker 1: devoted her life to her son, must relinquish her position
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  Speaker 1: to the person he chooses to marry. If you should
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  Speaker 1: have a son, you will give up your position to
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  Speaker 1: his wife. Since Nigel has married you, he has, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a right to expect that you will at least make
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  Speaker 1: an effort to learn something of what is required of
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  Speaker 1: women in your position.'' Sit down, Rosalie,' said Nigel.' Of
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  Speaker 1: course you take the head of the table, and naturally
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  Speaker 1: you must learn what is expected of my wife.' but
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  Speaker 1: don't talk confounded rubbish mother about devoting your life to
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  Speaker 1: your son we have seen about as little of each
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  Speaker 1: other as we could help we never agreed they were
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  Speaker 1: both bullies and each made occasional efforts at bullying the
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  Speaker 1: other without any particular result but each could at least
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  Speaker 1: bully the other into intensified unpleasantness the vicar's wife having
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  Speaker 1: made her call of ceremony upon the new lady anstruthers
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  Speaker 1: followed up the acquaintance and found her quite exotically unlike
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  Speaker 1: her mother-in-law whose charities, one may be sure, had neither
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  Speaker 1: been lavish nor dispensed by any hand less impressive than
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  Speaker 1: her own. The younger woman was of wholly malleable material.
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  Speaker 1: Her sympathies were easily awakened, and her purse was well
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  Speaker 1: filled and readily opened. Small families or large ones, newly
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  Speaker 1: born infants or newly buried ones, old women with bad legs,
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  Speaker 1: and old men who needed comforts equally touched her heart.
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  Speaker 1: She innocently bestowed sovereigns, where an Englishwoman would have known
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  Speaker 1: that half-crowns would have been sufficient. As the vicaress was
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  Speaker 1: her almoner, that lady felt her importance rapidly on increase.
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  Speaker 1: When she left a cottage, saying, I'll speak to young
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  Speaker 1: Lady Anstruthers about you, the good woman of the house
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  Speaker 1: curtsied low, and her husband touched his forehead respectfully. but
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  Speaker 1: this did not advance the fortunes of Sir Nigel, who
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  Speaker 1: personally required of her very different things. Two weeks after
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  Speaker 1: her arrival at Stornham, Rosalie began to see that somehow
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  Speaker 1: she was regarded as a person almost impudently in the wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared that if she had been an English girl
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  Speaker 1: she would have been quite different, that she would have
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  Speaker 1: been an advantage instead of a detriment. As an American
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  Speaker 1: she was a detriment, that seemed to go without saying.
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  Speaker 1: She tried to do everything she was told, and learn
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  Speaker 1: something from each cold insinuation. She didn't know that her
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  Speaker 1: very amenability and timidity were her undoing. Sir Nigel and
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  Speaker 1: his mother thoroughly enjoyed themselves at her expense. They knew
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  Speaker 1: they could say anything they chose, and at the most
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  Speaker 1: she would only break down into crying, and afterwards apologise
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  Speaker 1: for being so badly behaved. If some practical strong-minded person
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  Speaker 1: had been near to defend her, she might have been
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  Speaker 1: rescued promptly and her tyrants routed but she was a
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  Speaker 1: young girl tender of heart and weak of nature she
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  Speaker 1: used to cry a great deal when she was alone
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  Speaker 1: and when she wrote to her mother she was too
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  Speaker 1: frightened to tell the truth concerning her unhappiness oh if
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  Speaker 1: i could just see some of them she would wail
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  Speaker 1: to herself if i could just see mother or father
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  Speaker 1: or anybody from new york oh i know i shall
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  Speaker 1: never see new york again or broadway or fifth avenue
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  Speaker 1: or central park i never never never shall and she
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  Speaker 1: would grovel among her pillows burying her face and half
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  Speaker 1: stifling herself lest her sobs should be heard her feeling
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  Speaker 1: for her husband had become one of terror and repulsion
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  Speaker 1: She was almost more afraid of his patronising affectionate moments
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  Speaker 1: than she was of his temper. His conjugal condescensions made
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  Speaker 1: her feel vaguely, without knowing why, as if she were
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  Speaker 1: some lower order of little animal. American women, he said,
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  Speaker 1: had no conception of wifely duties and affection. He had
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  Speaker 1: a great deal to say on the subject of wifely duty.
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  Speaker 1: It was part of her duty as a wife to
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  Speaker 1: be entirely satisfied with his society and to be completely
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  Speaker 1: happy in the pleasure it afforded her. It was her
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  Speaker 1: wifely duty not to talk about her own family and
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  Speaker 1: palpitatingly expect letters by every American male. He objected intensely
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  Speaker 1: to this letter-writing and receiving, and his mother shared his prejudices.'
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  Speaker 1: You have married an Englishman,' her ladyship said.' You have
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  Speaker 1: put it out of his power to marry an Englishwoman,
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  Speaker 1: and the least consideration you can show is to let
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  Speaker 1: New York and 900th Street remain upon the other side
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  Speaker 1: of the Atlantic, and not insist on dragging them into
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  Speaker 1: Stornham Court.' the dowager lady anstruthers was very fine in
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  Speaker 1: her picture of her mental condition when she realised as
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  Speaker 1: she seemed periodically to do that it was no longer
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  Speaker 1: possible for her son to make a respectable marriage with
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  Speaker 1: a woman of his own nation the unadorned fact was
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  Speaker 1: that both she and sir nigel were infuriated by the
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  Speaker 1: simplicity which made rosalie slow in comprehending that it was
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  Speaker 1: proper that the money her father allowed her should be
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  Speaker 1: placed in her husband's hands and left there with no
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  Speaker 1: indelicate questioning If she had been an English girl, matters
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  Speaker 1: would have been made plain to her from the first,
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  Speaker 1: and arranged satisfactorily before her marriage. Sir Nigel's mother considered
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  Speaker 1: that he had played the fool, and would not believe
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  Speaker 1: that New York fathers were such touchy, sentimental idiots as
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  Speaker 1: not to know what was expected of them. They wasted
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  Speaker 1: no time, however, in coming to the point, and in
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  Speaker 1: a measure it was the vigorous who aided them. Not
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  Speaker 1: she entirely, however. Since her mother-in-law's first mention of a
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  Speaker 1: possible son whose wife would eventually thrust her from her
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  Speaker 1: seat at the head of the table, Rosalie had several
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  Speaker 1: times heard this son referred to. It struck her that
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  Speaker 1: in England such things seemed discussed with more freedom than
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  Speaker 1: in America. She had never heard a young woman's possible
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  Speaker 1: family arranged for and made the subject of conversation in
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  Speaker 1: the more crude atmosphere of New York. It made her
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  Speaker 1: feel rather awkward at first. Then she began to realise
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  Speaker 1: that the son was part of her wifely duty also,
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  Speaker 1: that she was expected to provide one, and that he
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  Speaker 1: was in some way expected to provide for the estate,
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  Speaker 1: to rehabilitate it, and that this was because her father,
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  Speaker 1: being a rich man, would provide for him. It had
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  Speaker 1: also struck her that in England there was a tendency
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  Speaker 1: to expectation that someone would provide for someone else, that relatives,
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  Speaker 1: even by marriage, were supposed to make allowances on which
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  Speaker 1: it was quite proper for other persons to live. rosalie
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  Speaker 1: had been accustomed to a community in which even rich
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  Speaker 1: men worked and in which young and able-bodied men would
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  Speaker 1: have felt rather indignant if aunts and uncles had thought
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  Speaker 1: it necessary to pension them off as if they had
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  Speaker 1: been impotent paupers it was rosalie's son who was to
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  Speaker 1: be provided for in this case and who was to
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  Speaker 1: provide for his father when you have a son her
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  Speaker 1: mother-in-law had remarked severely i suppose something will be done
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  Speaker 1: for nigel and the estate This had been said before
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  Speaker 1: she had been ten days in the house, and had
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  Speaker 1: set her not too quick brain working. She had already
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  Speaker 1: begun to see that life at Stornham Court was not
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  Speaker 1: the luxurious affair it was in the house in Fifth Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: Things were shabby and queer and not at all comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Fires were not lighted because the day was chilly and gloomy.
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  Speaker 1: She had once asked for one in her bedroom, and
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  Speaker 1: her mother-in-law had reproved her for indecent extravagance in a
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  Speaker 1: manner which took her breath away. i suppose in america
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  Speaker 1: you have your house at furnace heat in july she
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  Speaker 1: said mere wastefulness and self-indulgence that's why americans are old
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  Speaker 1: women at twenty they're shrivelled and withered by the unhealthy
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  Speaker 1: lives they lead stuffing themselves with sweets and hot bread
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  Speaker 1: and never breathing the fresh air rosalie could not at
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  Speaker 1: the moment recall any withered and shrivelled old women of
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  Speaker 1: twenty but she blushed and stammered as usual it's never
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  Speaker 1: cold enough for fires in july she answered We never
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  Speaker 1: think fire's extravagant when we're not comfortable without them.'' Coal
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  Speaker 1: must be cheaper than it is in England,' said her ladyship.'
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  Speaker 1: When you have a daughter, I hope you do not
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  Speaker 1: expect to bring her up as girls are brought up
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  Speaker 1: in New York.' This was the first time Rosalie had
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  Speaker 1: heard of her daughter, and she was not ready enough
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  Speaker 1: to reply. She naturally went into her room and cried again.
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  Speaker 1: wondering what her father and mother would say if they
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  Speaker 1: knew that bedroom fires were considered vulgarly extravagant by an
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  Speaker 1: impressive member of the British aristocracy. She was not at
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  Speaker 1: all strong at the time, and was given to feeling
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  Speaker 1: chilly and miserable on wet windy days. She used to
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  Speaker 1: cry more than ever, and was so desolate that there
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  Speaker 1: were days when she used to go to the vicarage
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  Speaker 1: for companionship. On such days the vicar's wife would entertain
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  Speaker 1: her with stories of the village's catastrophes, and she would
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  Speaker 1: empty her purse upon the tea-table and feel a little
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  Speaker 1: consoled because she was the means of consoling someone else.'
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  Speaker 1: I suppose it gratifies your vanity to play the lady bountiful,'
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  Speaker 1: Sir Nigel sneered one evening, having heard in the village
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  Speaker 1: what she was doing.' I never thought of such a thing,'
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  Speaker 1: she stammered feebly.' Mrs. Brent said they were so poor.''
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  Speaker 1: You throw your money about as if you were a child,'
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  Speaker 1: said her mother-in-law.' It' s a pity it's not put in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of some person with discretion.' It had begun
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  Speaker 1: to dawn upon Rosalie that her ladyship was deeply convinced
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  Speaker 1: that either herself or her son would be admirably discreet
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  Speaker 1: custodians of the money referred to. And even the dawning
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  Speaker 1: of this idea had frightened the girl. She was so
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  Speaker 1: inexperienced and ignorant that she felt it might be possible
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  Speaker 1: that in England one's husband and one's mother-in-law could do
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  Speaker 1: what they liked. It might be that they could take
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  Speaker 1: possession of one's money, as they seemed to take possession
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  Speaker 1: of one's self and one's very soul. She would have
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  Speaker 1: been very glad to give them money, and had indeed
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  Speaker 1: wondered frequently if she might dare to offer it to them,
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  Speaker 1: if they would be outraged and insulted and slay her
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  Speaker 1: with their wrath at her purse-proud daring. She had tried
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  Speaker 1: to invent ways in which she could approach the subject,
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  Speaker 1: but had not been able to screw up her courage
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  Speaker 1: to any sticking-point. she was so overpowered by her consciousness
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  Speaker 1: that they seemed continually to intimate that Americans with money
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  Speaker 1: were ostentatious and always laying stress upon the amount of
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  Speaker 1: their possessions. She had no conception of the primeval simpleness
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  Speaker 1: of their attitude in such matters, and that no ceremonies
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  Speaker 1: were necessary save the process of transferring sufficiently large sums
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  Speaker 1: as though they were the mere right of the recipients.
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  Speaker 1: She was taught to understand this later. In the meantime, however,
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  Speaker 1: Ready as she would have been to give large sums
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  Speaker 1: if she had known how, she was terrified by the
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  Speaker 1: thought that it might be possible that she could be
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  Speaker 1: deprived of her bank account, and reduced to the condition
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  Speaker 1: of a sort of dependent upon the humours of her
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  Speaker 1: lately acquired relations. She thought over this a good deal,
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  Speaker 1: and would have found immense relief if she dared have
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  Speaker 1: consulted any one. But she could not make up her
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  Speaker 1: mind to reveal her unhappiness to her people. She had
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  Speaker 1: been married so recently, everybody thought her marriage so delightful.
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  Speaker 1: She could not bear that her father and mother should
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  Speaker 1: be distressed by knowing that she was wretched. She also
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  Speaker 1: reflected with misery that New York would talk the matter
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  Speaker 1: over excitedly, and that finally the newspapers would get hold
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  Speaker 1: of the gossip. She could even imagine interviewers calling at
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  Speaker 1: the house in Fifth Avenue and endeavouring to obtain particulars
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. Her father would be angry and refuse
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  Speaker 1: to give them, but that would make no difference. The
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  Speaker 1: newspapers would give them, and everybody would read what they said,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was true or not. She could not possibly
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  Speaker 1: write facts, she thought, so her poor little letters were
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  Speaker 1: restrained and unlike herself, and to the warm-hearted souls in
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  Speaker 1: New York even appearing stiff and unaffectionate, as if her
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  Speaker 1: aristocratic surroundings had chilled her love for them. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: it became far from easy for her to write at all,
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  Speaker 1: since Sir Nigel so disapproved of her interest in the
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  Speaker 1: American mail. His objections had indeed taken the form of
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  Speaker 1: his feeling himself quite within his rights, when he occasionally
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  Speaker 1: intercepted letters from her relations, with the view of finding
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  Speaker 1: out whether they contained criticisms of himself which would betray
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  Speaker 1: that she had been guilty of indiscreet confidences. He discovered
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  Speaker 1: that she had not apparently been so guilty, but it
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  Speaker 1: was evident that there were moments when Mrs. Vanderpool was
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  Speaker 1: uneasy and disposed to ask anxious questions. When this occurred
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  Speaker 1: he destroyed the letters, and as a result of this
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  Speaker 1: precaution on his part her motherly queries seemed to be ignored,
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  Speaker 1: and she several times shed tears in the belief that
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  Speaker 1: Rosie had grown so patrician that she was capable of
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  Speaker 1: snubbing her mother, in her resentment at feeling her privacy
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  Speaker 1: intruded upon and an unrefined effusiveness shown.' I just feel
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  Speaker 1: as if she was beginning not to care about us
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  Speaker 1: at all, Betty,' she said.' I couldn't have believed it
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  Speaker 1: of Rosie. She was always such an affectionate girl.'' I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it now,' replied Betty sharply. Rosie couldn't grow
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  Speaker 1: hateful and stuck up. It's that nasty Nigel, I know
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  Speaker 1: it is. Sir Nigel's intention was that there should be
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  Speaker 1: as little intercourse between Fifth Avenue and Stornham Court as
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  Speaker 1: was possible. Amongst other things, he did not intend that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of American relations should come tumbling in when
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  Speaker 1: they chose to cross the Atlantic. He would not have it,
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  Speaker 1: and took discreet steps to prevent any accident of the sort.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote to America occasionally himself, and knowing well how
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  Speaker 1: to make himself civilly repellent, so subtly chilled his parents-in-law
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  Speaker 1: as to discourage in them more than once their half-formed
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  Speaker 1: plan of paying a visit to their child in her
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  Speaker 1: new home he opened read and reclosed all epistles to
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  Speaker 1: and from new york and while mrs vanderpoel was much
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  Speaker 1: hurt to find that rosalie never condescended to make any
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  Speaker 1: response to her tentatives concerning her possible visit rosalie herself
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: was mystified by the fact that the journey to europe
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: was never spoken of' I don't see why they never
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: seem to think of coming over,' she said plaintively one day.'
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: They used to talk so much about it.'' They?' ejaculated
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the dowager lady and Struthers.' Who may you mean?'' Mother
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and father and Betty and some of the others.' Her
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: mother-in-law put up her eyeglasses to stare at her.' The
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: whole family?' she inquired.' There are not so many of them,'
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Rosalie answered. Her family is always too many to descend
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: upon a young woman when she is married, observed her
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: ladyship unmovedly. Nigel glanced over the top of his times.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I may as well tell you that it would not
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: do at all, he put in. Why, why not? exclaimed Rosalie, aghast.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Americans don't do in English society, slightingly. But they're coming
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: over so much, they like London so. All Americans like London.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Do they? with a draw which made Rosalie blush until
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the tears started to her eyes. I am afraid the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: sentiment is scarcely mutual. Rosalie turned and fled from the room.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: She turned and fled because she realised that she should
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: burst out crying if she waited to hear another word,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and she realised that of late she seemed always to
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: be bursting out crying before one or the other of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: those two. She couldn't help it. They always seemed to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: be implying something slighting or scathing. They were always putting
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: her in the wrong and hurting her feelings. the day
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: was damp and chill but she put on her hat
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and ran out into the park she went down the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: avenue and turned into a coppice there among the wet
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: bracken she sank down on the mossy trunk of a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: fallen tree and huddled herself in a small heap her
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: head on her arms actually wailing oh mother oh, mother!'
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: she cried hysterically.' Oh, I do wish you would come.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I'm so cold, mother, I'm so ill, I can't bear it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It seems as if you'd forgotten all about me. You're
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: all so happy in New York that perhaps you have forgotten,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: perhaps you have. Oh, don't, mother, don't!' It was a
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: month later that through the vicar's wife she reached a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: discovery and a climax. She had heard one morning from
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: this lady of a misfortune which had befallen a small farmer.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: It was a misfortune which was an actual catastrophe to
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a man in his position. His house had caught fire
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: during a gale of wind, and the fire had spread
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: to the outbuildings and rickyard, and swept away all his
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: belongings— his house, his furniture, his hay-ricks and stored grain, and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: even his few cows and horses. He had been a poor,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: hard-working fellow, and his small insurance had lapsed the day
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: before the fire. He was absolutely ruined, and with his
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: wife and six children stood face to face with beggary
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and starvation. Rosalie Anstruthers entered the vicarage to find the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: poor woman who was his companion in calamity sobbing in
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the hall. A child of a few weeks was in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: her arms, and two small creatures clung crying to her skirts.'
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: We' ve worked hard,' she wept.' We have, ma'am. father he's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: always been steady and up early and late p'raps it's
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the lord's hand as you say ma'am but we've been
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: decent people and never missed church when we could elp
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it father didn't deserve it that he didn't she was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: heartbroken in her down-trodden hopelessness rosalie literally quaked with sympathy
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: she poured forth her pity in such words as the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: poor woman had never heard spoken by a great lady
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to a humble creature like herself The villagers found the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: new Lady Anstruthers' interviews with them curiously simple and suggestive
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of an equality they couldn't understand. Stornham was a conservative
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: old village where the distinction between the gentry and the
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: peasants was clearly marked. The cottagers were puzzled by Sir
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Nigel's wife, but they decided that she was kind if unusual.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: As Rosalie talked to the farmer's wife she longed for
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: her father's presence. She had remembered a time when a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: man in his employ had lost his all by fire.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the small house he had just made his last payment
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: upon having been burnt to the ground. He had lost
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: one of his children in the fire, and the details
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: had been heart-rending. The entire Vanderpool household had wept on
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: hearing them, and Mr. Vanderpool had drawn a cheque which
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: had seemed like a fortune to the sufferer. A new
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: house had been bought, and Mrs. Vanderpool and her daughters
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and friends had bestowed furniture and clothing enough to make
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the family comfortable to the verge of luxury.' See, you
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: poor thing,' said Rosalie, glowing with memories of this incident,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a homesick young soul comforted by the mere lightness in
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the two calamities.' I brought my cheque-book with me because
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I meant to help you.' A man worked for my father,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: had his house burned just as yours was,' and my
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: father made everything all right for him again.' I' ll make
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it all right for you.' I' ll make you a cheque
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: for a hundred pounds now,' and then when your husband
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: begins to build I'll give him some more.' The woman
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: gasped for breath and turned pale. She was frightened. It
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: really seemed as if her ladyship must have lost her
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: wits a little. She could not mean this. The vicaress
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: turned pale, too.' Lady Anstruthers,' she said.' Lady Anstruthers, it— it' s
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: too much. Sir Nigel—'' Too much!' exclaimed Rosalie.' They have
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: lost everything, you know. Their hay-ricks and cattle, as well
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: as their house. I guess it won't be half enough.' Mrs.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Brent dragged her into the vicar's study and talked to her.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: She tried to explain that in English villages such things
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: were not done in a manner so casual as if
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: they were the mere result of unconsidered feeling, as if
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: they were quite natural things such as any human person
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: might do. When Rosalie cried,' But why not? Why not?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: They ought to be!' Mrs. Brent could not seem to
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: make herself quite clear. Rosalie only gathered in a bewildered way,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: that there ought to be more ceremony, more deliberation, more
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: holding off, before a person of rank indulged in such munificence.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: The recipient ought to be made to feel it more,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to understand fully what a great thing was being done.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: They will think you will do anything for them. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I will, said young Lady Amstruthers, if I have the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: money when they are in such awful trouble. Suppose we
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: lost everything in the world, and there were people who
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: could easily help us and wouldn't.' You and Sir Nigel,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: that is quite different,' said Mrs. Brent.' I am afraid
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that if you do not discuss the matter and ask
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: advice from your husband and mother-in-law, they will be very
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: much offended.'' If I were doing it with their money,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: they would have the right to be,' replied Rosalie, with
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: entire ingenuousness.' I wouldn't presume to do such a thing
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: as that. That wouldn't be right, of course.'' They will
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be angry with me,' said the vicaress awkwardly.' This queer,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: silly girl, who seemed to see nothing in the right light,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: frequently made her feel awkward. Mrs. Brent told her husband
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that she appeared to have no sense of dignity or
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: proper appreciation of her position. The wife of the farmer,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: John Wilson, carried away the cheque quite stunned. She was
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: breathless with amazement, and turned rather faint with excitement, bewilderment,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and her sense of relief. She had to sit down
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in the vicarage kitchen for a few minutes, and drink
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a glass of the thin vicarage beer. Rosalie promised that
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: she would discuss the matter and ask advice when she
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: returned to the court. Just as she left the house, Mrs.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Brent suddenly remembered something she'd forgotten.' The Wilson trouble completely
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: drove it out of my mind,' she said.' It was
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: a stupid mistake of the postboy's. He left a letter
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of yours among mine when he came this morning. It
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: was most careless. I shall speak to his father about it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: It might have been important that you should receive it early.'
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: When she saw the letter, Rosalie uttered an exclamation. It
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: was addressed in her father's handwriting. Oh, she cried, it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: from father, and the postmark is Harvard. What does it mean?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: She was so excited that she almost forgot to express
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: her thanks. Her heart leapt up in her throat. Could
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they have come over from America? Could they? Why was
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: it written from Harvard? Could they be near her? She
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: walked along the road, choked with ecstatic laughing sobs. her
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: hand shook so that she could scarcely tear open the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: envelope she tore a corner of the letter and when
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the sheet was spread open her eyes were full of
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: wild delighted tears which made it impossible for her to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: see for the moment but she swept the tears away
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and read this dear daughter it seems as if we
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: had had pretty bad luck in not seeing you we
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: had counted on it very much and your mother feels
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it all the more because she is weak after her
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: illness We don't quite understand why you did not seem
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to know about her having had diphtheria in Paris. You
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: did not answer Betty's letter. Perhaps it missed you in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: some way. Things do sometimes go wrong in the mail,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and several times your mother has thought a letter has
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: been lost. She thought so because you seemed to forget
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to refer to things. We came over to leave Betty
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: at a French school, and we had expected to visit
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: you later. But your mother fell ill of diphtheria, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not hearing from you seemed to make her homesick. so
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: we decided to return to New York by the next steamer.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I ran over to London, however, to make some inquiries
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: about you, and on the first day I arrived I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: met your husband in Bond Street. He at once explained
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to me that you had gone to a house-party at
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: some castle in Scotland, and said you were well and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: enjoying yourself very much, and he was on his way
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to join you. I am sorry, daughter, that it has
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: turned out that we could not see each other. It
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: seems a long time since you left us. But I
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: am very glad, however, that you are so well and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: really like English life. If we had time for it,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I am sure it would be delightful. Your mother sends
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: her love and wants very much to hear of all
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you are doing and enjoying, hoping that we may have
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: better luck the next time we cross. Your affectionate father,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Reuben L. Vanderpool. Rosalie found herself running breathlessly up the avenue.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: She was clutching the letter still in her hand and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: staggering from side to side. Now and then she uttered
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: horrible little short cries like an animal's. She ran and ran,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: seeing nothing, and now and then, with the clenched hand
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: in which the letter was crushed, striking a sharp blow
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: at her breast. She stumbled up the big stone steps
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: she had mounted on the day she was brought home
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: as a bride. Her dress caught her feet, and she
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: fell on her knees, and scrambled up again, gasping. She
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: dashed across the huge dark hall, and hurling herself against
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the door of the morning-room, appeared dishevelled, haggard-eyed and with
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: scarlet patches on her wild white face, before the dowager,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: who started angrily to her feet.' Where is Nigel? Where
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: is Nigel?' she cried out frenziedly.' What in heaven's name
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: do you mean by such manners?' demanded her ladyship.' Apologise
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: at once!'' Where is Nigel? Nigel! Nigel!' the girl raved.'
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I will see him! I will! I will see him!' She,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: who had been the mildest of sweet-tempered creatures all her life,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: had suddenly gone almost insane with heartbroken, hysteric grief and rage.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: She did not know what she was saying and doing.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: She only realized, in an agony of despair, that she
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: was a thing caught in a trap, that these people
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: had her in their power, and that they had tricked
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: her and lied to her, and kept her apart from
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: what her girl's heart so cried out to and longed for.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Her father, her mother, her little sister, they had been
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: near her, and had been lied to and sent away.'
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: You are quite mad, you violent, uncontrolled creature,' cried the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: dowager furiously.' You ought to be put in a strait-jacket
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and drenched with cold water then the door opened again
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and nigel strode in he was in riding-dress and was
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: breathless and livid with anger He was in a nice
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: mood to confront a wife on the verge of screaming hysterics.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: After a bad half-hour with his steward, who had been
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: talking of impending disasters, he had heard by chance of
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Wilson's conflagration and the hundred-pound cheque. He had galloped home
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: at the top of his horse's speed.' Here is your wife,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: raving mad!' cried out his mother. Rosalie staggered across the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: room to him. She held up her hand, clenching the letter,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and shook it at him.' My mother and father have
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: been here,' she shrieked.' My mother has been ill.' They
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: wanted to come and see me.' You knew, and you
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: kept it from me.' You told my father lies, lies,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: hideous lies.' You said I was away in Scotland enjoying
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: myself' when I was here and dying with homesickness.' You
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: made them think I did not care for them,' or
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: for New York.' You have killed me.' Why did you
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: do such a wicked thing?'' He looked at her with
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: glaring eyes.' If a man born a gentleman is ever
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: in the mood to kick his wife to death, as
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: cost among us do, he was in that mood. He
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: had lost control over himself as completely as she had,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and while she was only a desperate, hysteric girl, he
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: was a violent man.' I did it because I did
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: not mean to have them here,' he said.' I did
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: it because I won't have them here.'' They shall come,'
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: she quavered shrilly in her wildness.' They shall come to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: see me.' They are my own father and mother, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I will have them.' He caught her arm in such
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a grip that she must have thought he would break it,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: if she could have thought or felt anything.' No, you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: will not have them,' he ground forth between his teeth.'
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You will do as I order you, and learn to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: behave yourself as a decent married woman should.' You will
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: learn to obey your husband, and respect his wishes, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: control your devilish American temper.'' They have gone, gone,' wailed Rosalie.'
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: You sent them away, my father, my mother, my sister.''
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Stop your indecent ravings,' ordered Sir Nigel, shaking her.' I
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: will not submit to be disgraced before the servants.'' Put
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: your hand over her mouth, Nigel,' cried his mother.' The
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: very scullery maids will hear.' She was as infuriated as
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: her son, and indeed to behold civilised human beings in
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the state of uncontrolled violence these three had reached was
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: a sight to shudder at.' I won't stop,' cried the girl.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Why did you take me away from everything? I was
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: quite happy. Everybody was kind to me. I loved people.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: I had everything. No one ever, ever ill-used anyone. Sir
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Nigel clutched her arm more brutally still and shook her
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: with absolute violence. Her hair broke loose and fell about
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: her awful little distorted, sobbing face.' I did not take
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you to give you an opportunity to display your vulgar ostentation,''
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: By throwing away hundred-pound cheques to villagers,' he said.' I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: didn't take you to give you the position of a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: lady and be made a fool of by you.'' You
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: have ruined him,' burst forth his mother.' You have put
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it out of his power to marry an Englishwoman' who
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: would have known it was her duty to give him
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: something in return for his name and protection.' Her ladyship
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: had begun to rave also, and as mother and son
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: were of equal violence when they had ceased to control
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: themselves— Rosalie began to find herself enlightened unsparingly. She and
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: her people were vulgar sharpers. They had trapped a gentleman
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: into a low American marriage, and had not the decency
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to pay for what they had got. If she had
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: been an Englishwoman, well born, and of decent breeding, all
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: her fortune would have been properly transferred to her husband,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: and he would have had the dispensing of it. Her
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: husband would have been in a position to control her expenditure,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and see that she did not make a fool of herself.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: As it was, she was the derision of all decent people,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: of all people who had been properly brought up and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: knew what was in good taste and of good morality.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: First it was the dowager who poured forth, and then
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: it was Sir Nigel. They broke in on each other,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: they interrupted one another with exclamations and interpolations. They had
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so far lost themselves that they did not know they
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: became grotesque in the violence of their fury. Rosalie's brain whirled.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Her hysteria mounted and mounted. She stared first at one
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and then at the other, gasping and sobbing by turns.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: She swayed on her feet and clutched at a chair.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I did not know, she broke forth at last, trying
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to make her voice heard in the storm. I never understood.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I knew something made you hate me, but I didn't
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: know you were angry about money. She laughed tremulously and wildly.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I would have given it to you. Father would have
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: given you some if you'd been good to me. The
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: laugh became hysterical beyond her management. Peel after peel broke
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: from her. She shook all over with her ghastly merriment,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: sobbing at one at the same time. Oh, oh, she shrieked.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: You see, I thought she was so aristocratic, I wouldn't
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: have dared to think of such a thing. I thought
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: an English gentleman, an English gentleman, oh, I had to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: think it was all because I did not give you money,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: just common dollars and cents that, that, I daren't offer
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to a decent American who could work for himself. Sir
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Nigel sprang at her. He struck her with his open
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: hand upon the cheek, and as she reeled she held
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: up her small, feverish, shaking hand, laughing more wildly than before.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You ought not to strike me, she cried. You oughtn't.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: You don't know how valuable I am. Perhaps, with a
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: little crazy scream, perhaps I might have a son. She
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: fell in a shuddering heap, and as she dropped she
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: struck heavily against the protruding end of an oak chest
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and lay upon the floor, her arms flung out and limp,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: as if she were a dead thing. End of chapter
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: 4