Violet Lisle — page 42: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

36 TWO ARISTOCRATS. not to be contemplated for a moment, and he answered me by saying that he would marry Violet Lisle. ” | : Melville Lisle hardly changed color, but he answered, with cutting deliberation : “Your son’s dementia has assumed a singular form, but you need not be alarmed for my daughter. If he should -present himself to me to ask for the hand of my daughter—for I presume the loss of his reason has not blunted his consciousness of his duty as a gentleman—I fa fe —)—— | il nO i yen UM Wine aSsessers tesecas ari sreeaeeener pitas ‘ithanenee ive eee ne 18; o8' aane agi eae; Tostrit pase HH siSi8tess (2588S 88ems: ' “THE DARLINGTONS TRACE THEMSELVES ONLY TO ONE HUGH DARLING. ”’ , should tell him, as you have done, that such a misalliance is not to be contemplated.” | “Iam glad you can see it in that light, Mr. Lisle.” “It would indeed be strange if I could not, Do you think I can forget, Lady Darlington, that the Lisles were trusted counselors of the Nerman William while the ee €omicbooksic