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A SURVEY OF THE RIDE OF THE WELSH CAVALIERS ESCORTING THE.
COUNTESS OF FLEETWOOD TO KENTISH ESSLEMONT A formal notification from the earl, addressed to the Countess of Fleetwood in the third person, that Esslemont stood ready to receive her, autocratically concealed her lord's impatience to have her there; and by the careful precision with which the stages of her journey were marked, as places where the servants despatched to convey their lady would find preparations for her comfort, again alarmed the disordered mother's mind on behalf of the child she deemed an object of the father's hatred, second to his hatred of the mother.

But the mother could defend herself, the child was prey the child of a detested wife was heir to his title and estates.

His look at the child, his hasty one look down at her innocent, was conjured before her as resembling a kick at a stone in his path.

His indifference to the child's Christian names pointed darkly over its future.
The distempered wilfulness of a bruised young woman directed her thoughts.