What Will He Do With It, Book 5.

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mothers and affectionate wives. Lady Selina, beyond her family circle, was trivial, unsympathizing, cold- hearted, supercilious by temperament, never kind but through policy, artificial as clock work. But in her own home, to her husband, her children, Lady Selina was a very good sort of woman,-devotedly attached to Carr Vipont, exaggerating his talents, thinking him the first man in England, careful of his honour, zealous for his interest, soothing in his cares, tender in his ailments; to her girls prudent and watchful, to her boys indulgent and caressing; minutely attentive to the education of the first, according to her high-bred ideas of education,-and they really were "superior" girls, with much instruction and well-balanced minds,- less

o requisite for public men as early training; makes them practical, and not too sensitive to what those horrid newspaper men say. That was Pitt's great advantage. Reginald has ambition; he should have occupati

a somewhat distant and subaltern Vipont, whis

st marquess. Carr says there is even likely to be some dispute about the earldom. The Barony, of course, is safe; goes with the Irish estates, and most of the English; and goes (don't you kn

s not

e people don't even like their own eldest sons! Shocking; but so it is. Montfort is the kindest, most tr

oor Mrs. Lyndsay!" said one

dsay ever took in Montfort for Caroline I can't conceive! How she had the face to think of it! He, a mere youth at the time!

"Caroline has be

up to the sort of thing. Poor Montfort! he should have married a different kind of woman altogether,-a woman like his grandm

she? Caroline, I suppose, had no opportunity of formin

The late Lady Montfort was very kind to her. So were we all; took her up; pretty woman; pretty manners; worldly,-oh, very! I don't like worldly people. Well, but all of a sudden a dreadful thing happened. The heir-at-law disputed the jointure, denied that Lyndsay had any right to make settlements on the Scotch property; very complicated business. But, luckily for her, Vipont Crooke's daughter, her cousin and intimate friend, had married Darrell, the famous Darrell, who was then at the bar. It is very useful to have cousins married to clever people. He was interested in her case, took it up. I believe it did not come on in the courts in which Darrell practised. But he arranged all the evidence, inspected the briefs, spent a great deal of his own money in getting up the case; and in fact h

opened, and George Mor

just arrived to

was in his right place, and following hope on the bent of inclination. Few men are shy when in their right places. He asked after Lady Montfort. She was in her own small sitting-room, writing letters, -letters that Carr Vipont had entreated her to write,-correspondence useful to the Ho