We shall stay ever so
many weeks at Matching, so that you can do as you please
as to the time of leaving us.
Yours affectionately,
G. O.
Tell Lord Chiltern that I have my hopes of making
Trumpeton Wood too hot for Mr. Fothergill,--but I have
to act with the greatest caution. In the meantime I am
sending down dozens of young foxes, all labelled Trumpeton
Wood, so that he shall know them.
The other was a card rather than a note. The Duke and Duchess of
Omnium presented their compliments to Mr. Gerard Maule, and requested
the honour of his company to dinner on,--a certain day named. When
Gerard Maule received this card at his club he was rather surprised,
as he had never made the acquaintance either of the Duke or the
Duchess. But the Duke was the first cousin of Adelaide Palliser, and
of course he accepted the invitation.
CHAPTER LXX
"I will not go to Loughlinter"
The end of July came, and it was settled that Lady Laura Kennedy
should go to Loughlinter. She had been a widow now for nearly three
months, and it was thought right that she should go down and see the
house, and the lands, and the dependents whom her husband had left in
her charge.
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