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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at <a -href="http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></p> -<p>Title: Johnny Ludlow, Third Series</p> -<p>Author: Mrs. Henry Wood</p> -<p>Release Date: October 4, 2012 [eBook #40936]</p> -<p>Language: English</p> -<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> -<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW, THIRD SERIES***</p> <p> </p> -<h4 class="pg">E-text prepared by David Edwards, eagkw,<br /> - and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> - (<a href="http://www.pgdp.net">http://www.pgdp.net</a>)<br /> - from page images generously made available by<br /> - Internet Archive<br /> - (<a href="http://archive.org">http://archive.org</a>)</h4> <p> </p> <table border="0" style="background-color: #ccccff;margin: 0 auto;" cellpadding="10"> <tr> @@ -5107,7 +5091,7 @@ have got in.”</p> <p>“But I did, ma’am. I fastened them just as usual.”</p> <p>“Couldn’t be,” said Cattledon decisively, who had been -making her way over the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">débris</i> to examine the shutters. “They +making her way over the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">débris</i> to examine the shutters. “They have not been forced in any way: they have simply been opened. The window also.”</p> @@ -6246,7 +6230,7 @@ to make Miss Carey sing; and to talk to her; and to linger in the garden with her and the children in the twilight. Mrs. Knox was rarely at home, and had no idea how sociable her step-son was becoming. Lefford and its neighbourhood followed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span> -the unfashionable custom of giving early soirées: tea at six, +the unfashionable custom of giving early soirées: tea at six, supper at nine, at home by eleven. James used to go for his mistress; on dark nights he took a lighted lantern. Mrs. Knox would arrive at home, her gown well pinned up, and innocent of @@ -6270,7 +6254,7 @@ glasses. Dr. Knox never said such a thing to her as, miss, I am in love with you; Janet was the essence of respectful shyness, and called him sir.</p> -<p>One evening something or other caused one of the soirées to +<p>One evening something or other caused one of the soirées to break up midway, and Mrs. Knox came home by twilight in her pink gauze gown. Instead of ringing at the front-door, she came round the garden to the lawn, knowing quite well the elder @@ -6327,7 +6311,7 @@ wits’ end. To begin with, there was nothing to stop. Had she put together a whole week’s looks and words of Arnold’s, directed to Janet, she could not have squeezed one decent iota of complaint out of the whole. Neither dared she risk offending -Arnold. What with the perpetual soirées out, and the general +Arnold. What with the perpetual soirées out, and the general daily improvidence at home, Mrs. Knox was never in funds, and Arnold found oceans of household bills coming in to him. Tradesmen were beginning, as a rule now, to address their @@ -6474,7 +6458,7 @@ Bertie.</p> surgeon. “And Dockett will be coming on, you know.”</p> <p>It was a dark night, the beginning of November, wet and -splashy. Mrs. Knox had a soirée at Rose Villa; and when the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span> +splashy. Mrs. Knox had a soirée at Rose Villa; and when the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></span> doctor reached home he met the company coming forth with cloaks and lanterns and clogs.</p> @@ -7532,7 +7516,7 @@ Shuttleworth has lain on my conscience.”</p> <p>When Arnold reached home that night, Mrs. Knox and her eldest daughter were alone; she reading, Mina dressing a doll. Lefford was a place that went in for propriety, and no one gave -soirées while Bertie Tamlyn lay dead. Arnold told Mrs. Knox +soirées while Bertie Tamlyn lay dead. Arnold told Mrs. Knox of the new arrangement.</p> <p>“Good gracious!” she exclaimed. “Coming back to Lefford! @@ -7783,7 +7767,7 @@ agitation.</p> <p>“As to Mrs. Knox, I am not sure but we might prosecute her. Rely upon one thing, Janet: that she will not be very well -welcomed at her beloved soirées for some long time to come.”</p> +welcomed at her beloved soirées for some long time to come.”</p> <p>Janet looked at the fire and thought. Dr. Knox kept silence, that she might recover herself after the news.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></span></p> @@ -8281,7 +8265,7 @@ they had made down the hill, told him the carriage was ready, and that they ought to start at once to reach Worcester by dinner-time. So the portly old gentleman wished us good-day and departed. Running up the bank, I saw them drive off from -the Crown in a handsome two-horse phæton.</p> +the Crown in a handsome two-horse phæton.</p> <p>It was on the day following this, that matters were finally settled with regard to Helen’s marriage. Captain Foliott made @@ -11817,7 +11801,7 @@ entrust my affairs to Old Scratch as to him.”</p> <p>The Squire had his interest paid. The next news we heard was that Caromel’s Farm was about to give an entertainment on -a grand scale; an afternoon fête out-of-doors, with a sumptuous +a grand scale; an afternoon fête out-of-doors, with a sumptuous cold collation that you might call by what name you liked—dinner, tea, or supper—in the evening. An invitation printed on a square card came to us, which we all crowded round Mrs. Todhetley @@ -11826,7 +11810,7 @@ except for public ceremonies, such as the Mayor’s Feast at Worcester. In our part of the world we were still content to write our invitations on note-paper.</p> -<p>The mother would not go. She did not care for fêtes, she +<p>The mother would not go. She did not care for fêtes, she said to us. In point of fact she did not like Mrs. Nash Caromel any better than she had liked Charlotte Nave, and she had never believed in the cow. So she sent a civil note of excuse for @@ -11843,7 +11827,7 @@ read the card of invitation, from Mr. and Mrs. Caromel, her eyes were dim.</p> <p>“I think they must have sent it as a cruel joke,” remarked -Mrs. Tinkle, meeting the Squire a day or two before the fête. +Mrs. Tinkle, meeting the Squire a day or two before the fête. “She has never spoken to me in her life. When we pass each other she picks up her skirts as if they were too good to touch mine. Once she laughed at me, rudely.”</p> @@ -11868,7 +11852,7 @@ elbow for the time being,” concluded the Squire. “Nash Caromel is one of those people who need to be kept in leading-strings all their lives. Good-morning.”</p> -<p>It was a fête worth going to. The afternoon as sunny a one +<p>It was a fête worth going to. The afternoon as sunny a one as ever August turned out, and the company gay, if not numerous. Only a sprinkling of ladies could be seen; but amongst them was Miles Caromel’s widow, with her four @@ -11951,7 +11935,7 @@ behaved ungenteelly to him, as Miss Bailey’s ghost says to Captain Smith, but it had not hurt the little fellow, or his stout legs either, which began now to be running him into all kinds of mischief. And so the time came round again to August—just a -year after the fête, and nearly twenty-two months after Nash’s +year after the fête, and nearly twenty-two months after Nash’s second marriage.</p> <p>One evening, Tod being out and Mrs. Todhetley in the @@ -14455,7 +14439,7 @@ straightforward,” she said. “Mrs. Ness chances to be aunt to Rednal’s wife, and she is staying down here with them.”</p> <p>Simple it was—as are most other puzzles when you have the -clue. The old woman was a great protégée of Miss Deveen’s, +clue. The old woman was a great protégée of Miss Deveen’s, who had known her through her life of misfortune: but Miss Deveen did not before know of her relationship to Rednal’s wife or that she was staying at their cottage. They had been talking @@ -17566,7 +17550,7 @@ her?”</p> <p>“For some months now. She is not very ill: goes out in her carriage to dazzle the town, as you observe, and has her regular -soirées at home. But I don’t like her symptoms: I don’t understand +soirées at home. But I don’t like her symptoms: I don’t understand them, and they grow worse. She has never been well, really well, since that French journey.”</p> @@ -17677,16 +17661,16 @@ younger. Mina was the prettiest; a fair girl with a mild face and pleasant blue eyes, her manner and voice as quiet as her face. Charlotte seemed rather strong-minded.</p> -<p>“Are you going to the soirée next door to-night, Arnold?” +<p>“Are you going to the soirée next door to-night, Arnold?” cried Mrs. Knox, as we were leaving.</p> <p>“I think not,” he answered. “Janet wrote to decline.”</p> <p>“You wished her to decline, I dare say!” retorted Mrs. Knox. -“You always did despise the soirées, Arnold.”</p> +“You always did despise the soirées, Arnold.”</p> <p>Dr. Knox laughed pleasantly. “I have never had much time -for soirées,” he said; “and Janet does not care for them. +for soirées,” he said; “and Janet does not care for them. Besides, we think it unkind to leave Mr. Tamlyn alone.” At which latter remark Mrs. Knox tossed her head.</p> @@ -17762,7 +17746,7 @@ and anon, too, a homely word would be dropped by her in the heat of conversation that belonged to Worcestershire proper, and to no other county.</p> -<p>“You will come to my soirée this evening, Mr. Ludlow,” Lady +<p>“You will come to my soirée this evening, Mr. Ludlow,” Lady Jenkins woke up to say to me as we were leaving.</p> <p>“Johnny can come; I dare say he would like to,” put in Dr. @@ -17790,9 +17774,9 @@ I wish Tamlyn would let me take the case in hand!”</p> universal dinner hour, no-matter how much you might go in for fashion, was in the middle of the day; the other was that every evening gathering, no matter how unpretentious, was invariably -called a “soirée.” They were the customs of the town.</p> +called a “soirée.” They were the customs of the town.</p> -<p>The soirée was in full swing when I reached Jenkins House +<p>The soirée was in full swing when I reached Jenkins House that night—at six o’clock. Madame St. Vincent and Charlotte Knox sat behind the tea-table in a cloud of steam, filling the cups as fast as the company emptied them; a footman, displaying @@ -17816,7 +17800,7 @@ I guessed that this was his brother, the solicitor. He came up to Lady Jenkins.</p> <p>“How do you do, aunt?” he said, bending to kiss her. “Hearing -of your soirée to-night, I thought I might come.”</p> +of your soirée to-night, I thought I might come.”</p> <p>“Why, my dear, you know you may come; you are always welcome. Which is it?” she added, looking up at him stupidly, @@ -17866,9 +17850,9 @@ familiar,” I frankly said: “I thought I must have seen you somewhere before. Have I, I wonder?”</p> <p>“Very likely—if you have been much in the South of France,” -she answered: “at a place called Brétage.”</p> +she answered: “at a place called Brétage.”</p> -<p>“But I have never been at Brétage.”</p> +<p>“But I have never been at Brétage.”</p> <p>“Then I don’t see how we can have met. I have lived there all my life. My father and mother died there: my poor husband @@ -17964,7 +17948,7 @@ Madame St. Vincent, whisking back to her place.</p> of tea, and then said she did not want it.”</p> <p>Some of the people sat down to cards; some to music; some -talked. It was the usual routine at these soirées, Mrs. Knox +talked. It was the usual routine at these soirées, Mrs. Knox condescended to inform me—and, what more, she added, could be wished for? Conversation, music, and cards—they were the three best diversions of life, she said, not that she herself much @@ -18141,7 +18125,7 @@ thing now: and it was nothing at all unusual for Arnold Knox to find all the patients thrown on his own hands.</p> <p>Amongst the patients so thrown this time was Lady Jenkins. -She had caught cold at that soirée I have just told of. Going to +She had caught cold at that soirée I have just told of. Going to the door in her old-fashioned, hospitable way, to speed the departure of the last guests, she had stayed there in the draught, talking, and began at once to sneeze and cough.</p> @@ -19364,7 +19348,7 @@ I think so too.”</p> <h3>III.</h3> -<p>The soirée to-night was at Rose Villa; and Mrs. Knox, attired +<p>The soirée to-night was at Rose Villa; and Mrs. Knox, attired in a striped gauze dress and the jangling ornaments she favoured, stood to receive her guests. Beads on her thin brown neck, beads on her sharp brown wrists, beads in her ears, and beads @@ -19388,7 +19372,7 @@ strong. Dr. Knox said nothing; but he kept his eyes open.</p> drowsy to come!” reiterated Mrs. Knox. “Sometimes madame can’t rouse her up from these sleepy fits, do what she will.”</p> -<p>Lady Jenkins was the great card of the soirée, and Mrs. Knox +<p>Lady Jenkins was the great card of the soirée, and Mrs. Knox grew cross. Captain Collinson had not come either. She drew me aside.</p> @@ -19439,13 +19423,13 @@ one, that poor nodding woman neither heard nor heeded it.</p> Jenkins is an anxious charge to me.”</p> <p>Therefore, being quite at home now at Jenkins House (to -return to the evening and the soirée I was telling of), I ran in +return to the evening and the soirée I was telling of), I ran in the nearest way to do Mrs. Knox’s behest. That was through the two back gardens, by the intervening little gate. I knocked at the glass-doors of what was called the garden-room, in which shone a light behind the curtains, and went straight in. Sitting near each other, conversing with an eager look on their faces, -and both got up for Mrs. Knox’s soirée, were Captain Collinson +and both got up for Mrs. Knox’s soirée, were Captain Collinson and Madame St. Vincent.</p> <p>“Mr. Ludlow!” she exclaimed. “How you startled me!”</p> @@ -19668,7 +19652,7 @@ shall soon be quitting Lefford.”</p> <p>“Shall you?”</p> -<p>“Must do it. I have to make my bow at a levée; and I must +<p>“Must do it. I have to make my bow at a levée; and I must be in town for other things as well. I should like to enjoy a little of the season there: it may be years before the opportunity falls to my lot again. Then I have some money to invest: I @@ -19789,8 +19773,8 @@ contended Dan Jenkins, tilting the tongs in his hand, as we sat round the dying embers of the surgery fire.</p> <p>His brother Sam and I had walked home together from Mrs. -Knox’s soirée, and we overtook Dan in the town. Another -soirée had been held in Lefford that night, which Dan had +Knox’s soirée, and we overtook Dan in the town. Another +soirée had been held in Lefford that night, which Dan had promised himself to before knowing Mrs. Knox would have one. We all three turned into the surgery. Dr. Knox was out with a patient, and Sam had to wait up for him. Sam had been @@ -19821,7 +19805,7 @@ keep Mina for yourself.”</p> with a clatter.</p> <p>“Collinson seems to be all right,” I put in. “He is going up -to London to a levée, and he is going to buy an estate. At +to London to a levée, and he is going to buy an estate. At least, he told me so to-night in the supper-room.”</p> <p>“Oh, in one sense of the word the fellow is all right,” acknowledged @@ -20014,7 +19998,7 @@ ours.</p> <p>We proceeded in a body through the moonlit streets to Collinson’s lodgings; the few stragglers we met no doubt taking us all for benighted wayfarers, trudging home from some one or -other of the noted Lefford soirées. Collinson had the rooms at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></span> +other of the noted Lefford soirées. Collinson had the rooms at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></span> the hairdresser’s—good rooms, famed as the best lodgings in the town. The gas was alight in his sitting-room over the shop; a pretty fair proof that the captain was yet up.</p> @@ -20298,12 +20282,12 @@ full of bills. I’ve not paid one for these six months.”</p> <p>“Do with my money! Why, it goes in a hundred ways. How very ignorant you are, Arnold. Look at what dress costs, -for myself and four girls! Look at what the soirées cost! We +for myself and four girls! Look at what the soirées cost! We have to give all sorts of dishes now; lobster salads and raspberry creams, and all kinds of expensive things. Madame St. Vincent introduced <em>that</em>.”</p> -<p>“You must put down the soirées and the dress—if you cannot +<p>“You must put down the soirées and the dress—if you cannot keep them within the bounds of your income.”</p> <p>“Thank you. Just as I had to put down the pony-carriage @@ -20374,7 +20358,7 @@ beg of you not to allow Mina to be alone with him.”</p> <p>“She never is alone with him.”</p> <p>“I think she is, at odd moments. Only last night I saw her -with him at the gate. Before that, while your soirée was going +with him at the gate. Before that, while your soirée was going on, Dicky—I believe he could tell you so, if you asked him—saw<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_418" id="Page_418">[418]</a></span> them walking together in the garden, the captain’s arm round her waist.”</p> @@ -20976,7 +20960,7 @@ no change worth noting to the reader had occurred in the town politics. Lady Jenkins was ailing as much as ever, and Madame St. Vincent was keeping a sharp watch on the maid, Lettice Lane, without, as yet, detecting her in any evil -practices: the soirées were numerous, one being held at some +practices: the soirées were numerous, one being held at some house or other every night in the work-a-day week: and the engagement of Captain Collinson to Miss Belmont was now talked of as an assured fact. Collinson himself had been away @@ -21036,7 +21020,7 @@ the same. There was that about him that gave you the idea he was in some way or other not <em>true</em>. And it may as well be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_431" id="Page_431">[431]</a></span> mentioned here that Captain Collinson got back to Lefford that same evening, in time to make his appearance at Mrs. Parker’s -soirée, at which both Miss Belmont and Mina Knox were +soirée, at which both Miss Belmont and Mina Knox were present.</p> <p>So now we come to Tod again, and to the day of his arrival. @@ -21070,11 +21054,11 @@ to my ears, unmistakably Worcestershire.”</p> <p>I never got anything better from Tod. “You will have the honour of meeting them both here to-night,” I said to him, “for -it is Janet’s turn to give the soirée, and I know they are +it is Janet’s turn to give the soirée, and I know they are expected.”</p> <p>Evening came. At six o’clock the first instalment of guests -knocked at the door; by half-past six the soirée was in full +knocked at the door; by half-past six the soirée was in full glory: a regular crowd. Every one seemed to have come, with the exception of the ladies from Jenkins House. Sam Jenkins brought in their excuses.</p> @@ -21103,7 +21087,7 @@ as the rattle of cups and saucers allowed. You should have seen Cattledon that evening:—in a grey silk gown that stood on end, a gold necklace, and dancing shoes.</p> -<p>“This is the second soirée this week that Lady Jenkins has +<p>“This is the second soirée this week that Lady Jenkins has failed to appear at,” spoke Mrs. Knox—not Janet—in a resentful tone. “My firm opinion is that Madame St. Vincent keeps her away.”</p> @@ -21114,7 +21098,7 @@ that?”</p> <p>“Well, yes; gives way to her fads and fancies about being ill, instead of rousing her out of them. As to <em>why</em> she does it,” continued Mrs. Knox, “I suppose she is beginning to grow -nervous about her. As if an innocent, quiet soirée could hurt +nervous about her. As if an innocent, quiet soirée could hurt Lady Jenkins!”</p> <p>“Johnny,” whispered Sam, subsiding into the background @@ -21127,7 +21111,7 @@ he doing that for?”</p> <p>“Goodness knows. Did you ever notice a big bay-tree that you pass on the left, between the door and the gate? Well, he was standing behind it. I came out of the house at a double -quick pace, knowing I should be late for the soirée, cleared the +quick pace, knowing I should be late for the soirée, cleared the steps at a leap, and the path to the gate at another. Too quick, I suppose, for Collinson. He was bending forward to look at the parlour windows, and drew back as I passed.”<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_433" id="Page_433">[433]</a></span></p> @@ -21211,7 +21195,7 @@ the hair he is adorned with that has thrown you off the scent.”</p> <p>“Hush, lad. We may be overheard.”</p> -<p>As a general rule, all the guests at these soirées left together. +<p>As a general rule, all the guests at these soirées left together. They did so to-night. The last to file out at the door were the Hampshires, with Mrs. Knox, her daughter, and Miss Mack—for Janet had made a point of inviting poor hard-worked, put-upon @@ -21721,7 +21705,7 @@ was seated with madame in the cheerful garden-room, its glass-doors standing open to the sunshine and the flowers. The visitors were cordially received; it was supposed they had only come to pay a morning visit. Madame St. Vincent sat behind a table -in the corner, writing notes of invitation for a soirée, to be held +in the corner, writing notes of invitation for a soirée, to be held that day week. Tod, who had his wits about him, went straight up to her. It must be remembered that they had not yet met.</p> @@ -21869,7 +21853,7 @@ and ladies won’t engage a companion who has none.”</p> <p>“My poor husband is really dead, Johnny Ludlow—I don’t know why you should imply a doubt of it. He left me nothing: he had nothing to leave. He was only a master in the college -at Brétage—a place in the South of France—and he died, I +at Brétage—a place in the South of France—and he died, I verily believe, of poor living. We had not been married twelve months. I had a little baby, and that died. Oh, I assure you I have had my troubles.”</p> @@ -22386,7 +22370,7 @@ other day when—— Well, I never! There he is!”</p> <p>The young parson caught her eye, as he was looming in. Long coat, clerical waistcoat, no white tie to speak of round his -bare neck; quite à la mode. The new fashions and the new +bare neck; quite à la mode. The new fashions and the new notions that Mr. Bruce went in for, were not at all understood at North Crabb.</p> @@ -23107,360 +23091,6 @@ and hyphenation.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> -<hr class="full" /> -<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOHNNY LUDLOW, THIRD SERIES***</p> -<p>******* This file should be named 40936-h.txt or 40936-h.zip *******</p> -<p>This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:<br /> -<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/0/9/3/40936">http://www.gutenberg.org/4/0/9/3/40936</a></p> -<p> -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed.</p> - -<p> -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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