The Memoirs of a Femme de Chambre
by Marguerite Gardiner (9780217762953)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Lokd Willamere allowed four days to pass over after the dinner described in our former chapter, before he ventured again to present himself at the door of the little sitting-room occupied by the wife of his secretary. How often during those four days, which seemed to him of interminable length, had he been tempted to break through the restrictions hie prudence had imposed on him, and to seek the presence of her who now occupied all his thoughts But a dread of alarming her by his too frequent visits deterred him; and he imagined that a forbearance which cost him so many struggles merited the reward of a less cold reception than he had previously experienced. The four days which had appeared to creep so slowly, and to be of such interminablelength to him, had glided so rapidly by with Mrs. Stratford, that, when he sent to inquire if she were at home, his visit struck her as following so quickly on the heels of his former one, that a sense of its impropriety brought the blush of wounded delicacy to her cheek. " Present my respects to his lordship, and say that I am so particularly engaged that I cannot receive visitors," said she to the servant. The message had so powerful an effect on the nerves of Lord Willamere, that he positively grew red and then pale, as he reflected on it. How cold, how cutting nay, how insolent was such treatment of him,?and in his own house too And for the nonce Lord Willamere forgot that the very circumstance which added to his displeasure on this occasion, namely, his visit being refused in his own house, ought to have pleaded against his entertaining any project hostile to the honour or peace of those who so far confided in him as to become its inmates. He forgot the gross breach of hospitality and of honour he meditated, and ...

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