[Mrs. Warren’s Daughter by Sir Harry Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookMrs. Warren’s Daughter CHAPTER II 2/13
I guess he was, from this and that, from what Mrs.Legg told me, and what I overheard at the Sterns'.
If he wasn't, then he has only himself to thank for the wrong assumption: I mean, from his goings-on. Then again, the Clementses, who live at the Grange.
I feel instinctively they are _nice_ people, but I haven't the least idea who _she_ was and how _he_ made his money, though from his acreage and his motors I am entitled to assume he has a large income.
She seems to know a lot about Spain; but I don't feel encouraged to ask her: "Was your father in the wine trade? Is _that_ why you know Xeres so well ?" Clements himself has in his study an enlarged photograph of a handsome woman with a kind of mourning wreath round the frame--beautifully carved.
Is it the portrait of a former wife? Or of a sister who committed suicide? Or was it merely bought in Venice for the sake of the carving? Perhaps I shall know some day--if it matters.
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