Hereditary
By Mary Fortune
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Hereditary - Mary Fortune
Mary Fortune
Hereditary
EAN 8596547407690
DigiCat, 2022
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Table of Contents
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THE STORY
THE END
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Table of Contents
THE STORY
Table of Contents
THERE wanted but a few days to Christmas, when one morning Archie Hopeton dashed into my office with an open letter in his hand. I say dashed, for scarcely any other word would effectually describe his abrupt and sudden entrance; and, as such a manner was rather unusual with him, I looked up at him in wondering inquiry.
'I've got the invitation for you, Mark. Now, surely you won't refuse to go with me. My aunt, Mrs Thorne, says she will be very much pleased to see you.'
'I'm afraid you've been putting the screw on the old lady, Archie—threatening not to go yourself unless she invited me, or something of that sort?'
''Pon my honour, no. I simply said that I was trying hard to induce you to spend your holidays at Puntwater. You will go, won't you, Mark, out of charity, if for no other reason?'
I looked up from my desk into the young fellow's anxious and pleading face; it was the face of a fair, handsome youth of twenty-two or three, with a pair of fine, brown eyes lighting it up, and beautiful glossy, fair hair waving above it; but at the moment it looked really haggard and careworn.
'I might as well go there as anywhere else, Archie,' I returned, 'that is to say if I get away at all. I'm so used to applying for leave, having it granted, and then cancelled again in consequence of a very particular case,
that I quite expect to stop and work hard during holiday time.'
'Why don't you start at once? Your leave's granted now. Will you come on Monday, Mark?' he asked eagerly.
'If I get through with this business today, I shall certainly take time by the forelock, and go on Monday, my son. But I can't make out your great anxiety to have me go with you.'
'That shows how little attention you've been paying to all my egotistical stories,' he cried, 'and indeed, Sinclair, it is as simple a piece of selfishness for me to wish you with me, I mean, as ever you accused me of; but I am positively afraid to go back to aunt's, afraid is the word.'
'Afraid of your aunt, or cousin? Which?'
'Of both. Oh, I know I'm a soft fellow, Sinclair, but until you have seen them, and known them, you cannot understand. Aunt Thorne has set her very heart on us marrying, and now that I've chosen so differently, she will be wild.'
'And the young lady? Your cousin Hester, what will she say, or do? Is she so infatuated with you that she will never forgive you? What a lady-killer you must be, young chap. It's well to be you.'
'For mercy sake don't chaff, Mark. I can't stand it. Wait till you see them, and you will understand better. I was brought up by Aunt Thorne, and until I went to college, I had no idea that they were so peculiar and different from other people. Well, Mark, you will come, eh?'
'I suppose I must. I suppose, to prove the entire unselfishness of my friendship for a young scatterbrains, I must place myself as a sort of buffer between him and the ladies who are foolish enough to wish to wed him against his will. But I've got a new idea, Archie. I'll pay my addresses to Miss Thorne myself and see if I can't cut you out. You say she has money?'
'Yes, her father settled a tidy little fortune on Hester, but God forbid that you should think of spending your life with such a girl.'
'I wish she heard you—I think she would be disenchanted.'
Archie shook his head with a