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At nine o'clock the next

broadcloth, creased with folding and s of camphor, and started

for Hintock House He was the o at once by the

absence of his son-in-law in London for a few days, to attend, really

or ostensibly, so of his

destination either to his wife or to Grace, fearing that they ht

entreat him to abandon so risky a project, and went out unobserved He

had chosen his time with a view, as he supposed, of conveniently

catching Mrs Charmond when she had just finished her breakfast, before

any other business people should be about, if any ca between Little Hintock

Woods and the plantation which abutted on the park; and the spot being

open, he was discerned there by Winterborne from the copse on the next

hill, where he and his er ed to intercept the

ti of this, sir," he said, "and I am of opinion that

it would be best to put off your visit for the present"

But Melbury would not even stop to hear him His mind was made up, the

appeal was to be made; and Winterborne stood and watched him sadly till