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There was a rather uneasy friendship between hi Hardys at the Hall The two households were different,

yet the young ith his dark lashes and beautiful

colouring, his soft, inscrutable nature, his strange repose and

his informed air, added to his position in London, who seen element in the Marsh When he

appeared, perfectly dressed, as if soft and affable, and yet

quite removed from everybody, he created an uneasiness in

people, he was reserved in the minds of the Cossethay and

Ilkeston acquaintances to a different, remote world

He and his mother had a kind of affinity The affection

between them was of a mute, distant character, but radical His

father was always uneasy and slightly deferential to his eldest

son Tom also formed the link that kept the Marsh in real

connection with the Skrebenskys, now quite ie in tone carew older, seeure lent itself: burly and handsoht, his

thick hair and beard had turned gradually to a silky whiteness

It was his custoreat deal, in his acquiescent,

wilful s had puzzled hiood-humoured acceptance He was not

responsible for the fras Yet he was afraid of the

unknown in life