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The stroke had clearly been a slight one, for she was able to articulate and to make her wishes known; and soon after the doctor's first visit she had begun to regain control of her facial reat was the indignation when it was gathered froina Beaufort had come to ask her--incredible effrontery!--to back up her husband, see theh--not to "desert" them, as she called it--in fact to induce the whole family to cover and condone their monstrous dishonour
"I said to her: 'Honour's always been honour, and honesty honesty, in Manson Mingott's house, and will be till I'm carried out of it feet first,'" the old wohter's ear, in the thick voice of the partly paralysed "And when she said: 'But ina Dallas,' I said: 'It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it's got to stay Beaufort now that he's covered you with shaasps of horror, Mrs Welland iation of having at last to fix her eyes on the unpleasant and the discreditable "If only I could keep it frousta, for pity's sake, don't destroythese horrors?" the poor lady wailed
"After all, Maested; and Mrs Welland sighed: "Ah, no; thank heaven he's safe in bed And Dr Bencomb has proina has been got away somewhere"
Archer had seated hi out blankly at the deserted thoroughfare It was evident that he had been summoned rather for the moral support of the stricken ladies than because of any specific aid that he could render Mr Lovell Mingott had been telegraphed for, anddespatched by hand to thein New York; andto do but to discuss in hushed tones the consequences of Beaufort's dishonour and of his wife's unjustifiable action
Mrs Lovell Mingott, who had been in another roo notes, presently reappeared, and added her voice to the discussion In THEIR day, the elder ladies agreed, the wife of a raceful in business had only one idea: to efface herself, to disappear with hirandreat-grandfather'sa note for somebody--I never quite knew, because Maht up in the country because her race, whatever it was: they lived up the Hudson alone, winter and summer, till Mamma was sixteen It would never have occurred to Grandmamma Spicer to ask the faina calls it; though a private disgrace is nothing co hundreds of innocent people"