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Castle, and brought her child with her. She was sent away. The
Earl would not see her, she was told by the footman at the door; his
lawyer would attend to her case. It was Thomas who gave the
message, and who expressed his opinion of her freely afterward, in
the servants’ hall. He ‘‘ hoped,” he said, "as he had wore livery in
‘igh famblies long enough
to know a lady when he
see one, an if that was a
lady he was no judge o
females.”
‘The one at the Lodge,
added Thomas loftily,
‘’Merican or no Merican,
she’s one o the right sort,
as any gentleman ‘ud rec¬
kinize with ’alf a heve. I
remarked it myself to
Henery when fust we
called there.”
The woman _ drove
away; the look on her
handsome, common face
half frightened, half fierce. sz
Mr. Havisham had noticed, |
. . . . . SHE WAS TOLD BY THE FOOTMAN AT THE DOOR
during his interviews with THAT THE EARL WOULD NOT SEE HER.
her, that though she had
a passionate temper, and a coarse, insolent manner, she was neither so
clever nor so bold as she meant to be; she seemed sometimes to be
almost overwhelmed by the position in which she had placed herself.
It was as if she had not expected to meet with such opposition.
“She is evidently,” the lawyer said to Mrs. Errol, "a person
from the lower walks of life. She is uneducated and untrained in