sent again. Now carriages and carriage-horses
were not numerous at Carbury. The squire kept
a waggonette and a pair of horses which, when not
wanted for house use, were employed about the farm.
He himself would walk home from the train, leaving
the luggage to be brought by some cheap conveyance.
He had already sent the carriage once on this day,—and
now sent it again, Lady Carbury having said a word
which showed that she hoped that this would be done.
But he did it with deep displeasure. To the mother
her son was Sir Felix, the baronet, entitled to special
consideration because of his position and rank,—because
also of his intention to marry the great heiress of
the day. To Roger Carbury, Felix was a vicious
young man, peculiarly antipathetic to himself, to
whom...