25/31 It would come better from you." "I will tell her." Colonel Bellairs was beginning late in life to lean on Magdalen. She was fond of him in a way, and never yielded to him. _On ne peut s'appuyer que contre ce qui resiste._ Though Colonel Bellairs did not know it, he was always wanting to _s'appuyer_. He had found in his daughter something solid to lean against, which he had never found in his wife, who had not resisted him. I had a letter from your Aunt Mary this morning, a long rigmarole. |