A Heart's Bitterness — page 210: what you’re looking at

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202 A HEART’S BITTERNESS. and said he was going to Sussex to hunt up a relative who was ‘high quality.’” | ‘How much did you tell the lawyer, Adam?” ‘‘T told him Kemp. went to Sussex, and I being out in a wood, one day, saw him fall, as in epilepsy, and he struck his head, and I did what I could for him, and, as he was out of his mind, I took him to my sister, to be cared for till he recovered, and that some months ago he escaped. I gave him my references and my sister’s, and I told him it was done out of kindness—and so it was—to you.” ‘© Well, what will he do about it?” asked Leigh, eagerly. ‘« He says he must advertise for his man, and if that does not succeed, he must set the police to search for him.” Lord Leigh felt that some attack was likely to be made on his birth and title. What it.could be, he did not know, as he felt firmly established concerning both; but there was his tenderest point, and there he believed that Helen’s ven- geance would wound him. He would need friends and helpers in such an emergency, and he sought to consoli- date friendships with such men as Sir Tom Churchill, Lord ~ Keith, and the Marquis of Alwood. If an attack were made on his title, it must be tried before his peers. He concluded that it would be well for Violet to renounce her resolution of withdrawing entirely from society and re- - maining in Sussex during all the season. She would come to town with the child for at least a month. If he had Violet in London they must attend and give entertainments, which would at least. bring him where he could see Hdna, if even it was far off, and the joy of see- ing her was dashed with the pain of watching others wor- ening at her shrine, or beholding a favored suitor by her side. | Violet dreaded to go to London; her country home was so safe, quiet, and happy for her and for her child. But Leigh insisted; and: when the primroses were all abloom, she went back to her Belgravian residence. The morning after her arrival-she drove to Lady Burton’s, taking Magery and the little Rupert, desirous of showing the darling to the two friends whom she most valued. Her * coming was as a festival. Mother and babe were over- whelmed with caresses and praises. Edna carried the in- fant up to Lady Burton’s boudoir, and Lady Burton came up, clasping her arm around Violet’s waist. Comiecbooks:. co