With his
position, his seat in Parliament, such a country house as Portray Castle,
and the income which she would give him, there was nothing that he might
not reach! And he was so infirm of purpose that though he had hankered
after it all he would not open his hand to take it, because he was afraid
of such a little thing as Lucy Morris! It was thus that she thought of him
as she leaned back in the carriage without speaking. In giving her all
that is due to her we must acknowledge that she had less feeling of the
injury done to her charms as a woman than might have been expected. That
she hated Lucy was a matter of course; and equally so that she should be
very angry with Frank Greystock; but the anger arose from general
disappointment rather than from any sense of her own despised beauty. "Ah,
now I shall see my child," she said, as the carriage stopped at the castle
gate.
When Frank Greystock went to his supper Miss Macnulty brought to him his
cousin's compliments with a message saying that she was too weary to see
him again that night. The message had been intended to be curt and
uncourteous, but Miss Macnulty had softened it, so that no harm was done.
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