This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...so I may as well do it at once.' He returned, but the library was unoccupied. Lady Eagelton had retired, in dudgeon, no doubt. She would sulk, the admiral, disgustedly thought. Women generally did, he believed, when they considered themselves insulted or ill-treated; and he could bear anything better than that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...so I may as well do it at once.' He returned, but the library was unoccupied. Lady Eagelton had retired, in dudgeon, no doubt. She would sulk, the admiral, disgustedly thought. Women generally did, he believed, when they considered themselves insulted or ill-treated; and he could bear anything better than that. 'I shall ride over to Apchurch, and lunch at the vicarage, ' he thought. 'Eagelton is to come down to dinner to-night, so she will not venture to overdo the cold shoulder business. When a man's getting better he's always cross, and she wouldn't risk annoying him. One comfort is, if' she does send me to Coventry, it will stop further talk of that infernal marquis, or whatever he is.' And he went round to the stables and rode off at once, before he came across Iris, who might look or say something to tempt him to change his mind. Iris lunched with her father and mother, Lord Eagelton feeling well enough to take his midday meal in the dining-room. Both mother and daughter were absorbed in making amusing small talk for the invalid, and in repressing the high spirits of Monty and Regy, who were secretly planning a raid on the birds' nests in the copses during their uncle's absence. When Lady Eagelton told her daughter she did not feel equal to walking about the gardens with Lord Eagelton, Iris noticed with a slight pang that her mother looked pale and worn. 'Mother dear, let me take papa out, ' she eagerly said. And, as Lord Eagelton did not object to the arrangement, father and daughter went slowly across the lawns to the pleasaunce, while Lady Eagelton started in the barouche alone, ostensibly for a drive, in reality on her way to Lady Wellfield. Iris and her father spent an agreeable afternoon. The boys sneaked off birdsnesting, and sneaked...
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