[Mrs. Warren’s Daughter by Sir Harry Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookMrs. Warren’s Daughter CHAPTER XI 38/39
Their names were changed respectively from Hotel Leopold II to Hotel Edouard-Sept, from The Homestead, Roquebrune, to Hotel du Royaume-Uni.
Mrs.Warren or Mme.
Varennes retired completely from the management, but arranged to retain for her own use the magnificently furnished _appartement_ on the first floor of the Hotel Edouard-Sept at Brussels, where Vivie had seen her in the late spring of 1909.
She still continued to receive a certain income from these two admirably managed hostelries. Constrained by Vivie she bestowed large donations on charitable and educational institutions affecting the welfare of women and established a fund of Ten thousand pounds for the promotion of Woman Suffrage in Great Britain, which fund was to be at Vivie's disposal.
But even with these sacrifices to _bienseance_ she remained a lady of considerable fortune. She resisted however all invitations to make her home in England. "No, dear; I've got used to foreign ways.
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