Lady GrizelAn impression of a momentous epoch . t a horribledogma, and what a shocking figure ! Eeally a wofuland most lamentable figure. By the time she reachedTewkesbury House, where Jasper was waiting-anxiously, the careless lady had forgotten her owntroubles in commiseration for a woman who wasdoomed to carry about a body like a box during allher life—such a body—such a box ! Eecalled to herself by his inquiries, she was fainto admit that, like most people who are temporarilyunder a cloud, she had enjoyed an arctic amount of MAY THE ORDEAL BE ESCAPED? 257 cold shoulder. What was to be done
Lady GrizelAn impression of a momentous epoch . t a horribledogma, and what a shocking figure ! Eeally a wofuland most lamentable figure. By the time she reachedTewkesbury House, where Jasper was waiting-anxiously, the careless lady had forgotten her owntroubles in commiseration for a woman who wasdoomed to carry about a body like a box during allher life—such a body—such a box ! Eecalled to herself by his inquiries, she was fainto admit that, like most people who are temporarilyunder a cloud, she had enjoyed an arctic amount of MAY THE ORDEAL BE ESCAPED? 257 cold shoulder. What was to be done ? ordeal must be passed through—an ordeal likea genteel pillory. Jasper drummed for a while with his feet and bithis nails to the quick. I must go and see Meadows/he resolved at length. The case must be compro-mised at whatever price — even a third of yourincome. The Duchess shrugged her entrancing might settle the business as he deemed left it in his hands, and took a pinch of snuff. VOL. III. 58. CHAPTER XII.
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