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Lady Bottrell (wife of Sir Geoffrey Bottrell, Bart.-as the Court and other Guides describe himet Park Lace; Bottrell Manor, Keut; Mon Repos, La Turbie, Alpes Maritimes; and half-a-dozen dubs, Political, Social, Yachting, But alone in her boudoir overlooking the Park and felt happy! Far, at last, that which hoda Byttrell had intensely desired had taken pinos. Sie Geoffrey, who was not always given to convelling nuyons's luclinations and desires but his own, had been won over to giving his consent to that which he had sworn he would Dever consent to, and had allowed their only daughter and child to beoond engaged to the man she fored.
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hor drive in the Park in a quarter of an hour! and that Miss Bottrell was to be informed of her decisión.
Miss Bottrell is not in, my lady," the man said. "She is still at the Picture Gallery."
Oh, yes. Of course. Very well," I will gò Blone,"
With the exception of her het and' martie, noon drive, and it took her maid, Séverine, no Lady Bottrell was already dressed for har aftor.
great time to adjust theo, so that, under the quarter of an hour, she was seated in bor, car- riage and formed one of that throng in the Pack which, a short time before, she had looked of without seeing.
Yet such a woman os Rhoda, Lady Bettroll, could not herself be even without being ob served. Her beauty, still fresh and good in look upon, although she was now in her thirty- eighth year, was, as it had always been, atriking. penetrating. Her aeft feitures, of all of which the softness of her dark ayes was perhaps the most alluring, were in themselves remarkable; while her dark hair, absolutely free of one gray thread as yet, was eniled her heid. Nor did her small mouth need is poet's straising pen to term it a rosebud, while her white skin, tinged sometimes on the cheeks, in mouieste of excitement or interest, with the line of the wild Neapolitan camelliç, completed her good looks.
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A pretty woman, some people said, "n beautifu. woman," others decided; "a lovely woman," orlaimed still others. And each and every one spoke according to their temperament, their Stness of judgment boing, perhaps, in their in which, seat of judgment as regards honaty A striking looking woman," aged, almost grey-hsireit gentlemen who was reated on the bench opposite Stanhope Gate, aid to a younger. man, a stranger, as lady Bottrell's carriage entered the Park, "A fly of rauk I should suppose ?" he ventured to add.
Indeed, since Bir Geoffroy was ous of those individuals, still common even in this twentieth century, who imagier that the opinion of any one else cannot possibly be of the slightest value if it runs counter to their own, the marvel is that he ever consquted to his daughter marry ing the man she loved. Not
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ose, ROAD. mutter of fact, becaum there was tore between the two young people in qtention since Str Geoffrey bad himself loved and still loved his wife fondly-hat becsuss the idon had never once dawned upon his mind; because he had not been the first to imagins that such a thing wont happen; and because, therefore, since he was not the discoverer-the, so to speak, Chris topher Columbas of the idea-be strongly dis upproved of it.
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To put it plainly, had it ever occurred to tris mird which was in truth, a arrow. one) that his ebild ought to marry we love ho would at buco bave strongly opposed the idea that abe could ever be allowed to marry a rich man, and he would, cousequeatly, have opposed Cross himself in exvstly the sumo way that he had now, for some months, opposed Lieutenant Possession at Waynaste, R.N., nad his aspirations.
But, if his mind was weak, his heart was sound and strong, if he trod a varrow path, at least te trod a straight one; and be loved his
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Rather, bis casual acquaintance of the moment, who was a young man of vacuous op- pearance, replied. It is Lady Bottrell, wife of Sir Geoffrey Bottrell. You wouldn't think
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Seareely. So she haà a donghter old enough to be married Dear! Dear! To one who is also a person of runk, I imagine?"
Yes. Of rouk. But a money. To the falaro Lord Bohun. The peast lord is a Deau-the Dean of Tewkesbury. But he is single."
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nothing of any work that his own little one which to him ropeascuted all mankind-gave way. A sad look on his wife's face which seemed to be gradually beaning perpetual tears in the eyes and vaies, too, of his daught Mand, and Sir Geofrey was beaten. His mental callosity softened beneath the tender bess of his heart.
Therefore, only yesterday the announcement had been made of the engagement of Li-uten- ant Cland Waysfate, E.N.. nephew and heir presumptive of Viscount Bohua (who boasted that he was the poorest pear in the Realm), with Mand, only daughter of Sir Geoffrey and Lady Bottrel; and, in consequence, the latter was, no has been said, happy. This macunce prat had been made through the usual channel in which such important facts are invariably
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"Oh yes," the other auswered. "She is fairer though and more liks her father." Then he acknowledged the salatation of his as quaintance of a moment, who strolled away through Stanhope Gate and so arrived opposite Sir Geoffrey Bottrell's house, while remaining 43. on the Park side of the road.
bor terrier in her lap, as now the former fol. Sitting up vory straight in her marriage with
lowed in the line up and down, and bowing to countless people, Lady Bottrell let her thoughts dwell on the subject that was uppermost in ur mind; on that consent to bis daughter's co- gagament which had be wrested from Sir Geoffrey afara long and bard fought contest.
*Doar Geoffrey," she said to herself, us the mused, der Gentirey. It is so like him to have held out simply because it was our idea, or rather Mend's desire, and zet his. Ah! we were wrong. We should have told him that
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way have fusisted on Mand's marrying the It cannot be revoked now," Lady Bottrell poorest man in the the kingdom who is a greatle said to herself as she thought of all this.inna. However, it is done now and we [2442here is nothing-nothing that can prevent hars won. Even Geoffrey, canant write to
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Yet, as she ao mused. she paused for one moment in the act of neranging some dowers in a rase and gazed out across ige Park, watching the eternal procession of the fashionable world TO.11, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kowloon, from Hyde Park Cormor to the Marble Aroh; the going and coming--and then the going and from 1st Heptember next.
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Bat, perhaps, she was not noticing anything connected with the drill-ground of fashion; perhaps ebo could not have told you that the nobleman driving the phaston with the pair of greys had taken her into dinner last night, or
The oarriage had reached Alexandra Gate for the second time by now, the drive had lasted nearly half an hour, and Fady Bottrell had done her duty to the world. It was time to go home and put herself in Séverine's hands in perparation for the dinner at the oldedy peeressa.
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**Then round and go home," she said to the. footman, who transmitted the order to the poachmann; who had heard it equally as well as ho. It did not take long to return to Stanhope saperb baroach was the women at whose house of those who went there to be seen, but of she would pat ber dinner to-night. She could, the bibler persons who went to see. Con- in Belen truth, have told yen aons of these sequentiy in ten or twelve minutes the brouche thinge
was outside the door of Sir Geoffrey's house For at this moment her thoughts were far and Lady Bottrell was descending from it, away from London and its most fashionable when she saw that the hall footmin was en- centre-far away down in the heart of Surrey, amidst the forms and bracken of one of its delis;d in answering some enquiry addressed to while, iustand of a well set-up elderly peer middle-agad, almost grey-haired gentleman by a gentleman standing on the steps. A a worn-out peeress, there came before her two
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Then, in a moment, those lines were one the ideas, the memories that bad caused them were gone too; Lady Bottrell put the last. Mal- maison rose it one vase, the last Emperor of Morocco is another, got up from the table and said again," Nothing*
She rang the boll now and asked if the carriage was ready, and if Sir Geoffrey had como in, receiving an affirmative answer to the first question and a negativa one to the so cond; then alie bade the footwan sy skat she would go for
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What is it?" Lady Bottrali asked, on the gantleman came down the stops, taking off his hat in a well-bred manner, while she disearned in a glance that he was totally unknown to her. "I called, my lady," the latter said, while sinking his value in a way that exused Lady which told plainly that she wondered how be Buttwell to rogard, him with a haughty stare,
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"What do you mear?"
The man gave a half glance over his shoulder at the footman above who was holding the door suggestion that it would be best for the servant open; a glance which platoly expressed the
not to overhear what he had to say, then be almost whispered, while keeping his back turced to the man, "I have come to England to see you privately, my Indy. I am a lawyer in America. From Boston, in the United States" ***Boston!" Lady Bottrell exclaimed, and, although the footmen could not hear the word which, in actual fact, she marmured between her lips,
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"Yes," the man replied. “Abd, and— circumstances have arized, which make it im- perative that I should see your ladyship alone, I am staying at the Cosmopoliton Hotel. I will wait on your ladyship at any hear you may desire, or be prepared to receive you in private
And, as he spoke, he handed to Lady Boltroll the card which, a moment before, he had been about to leave with the footmaa,
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