5/23 At any rate she's more of a Beauleigh than any Beauleigh since the flood." "I know," said Lord Crosland, and he nodded gravely with the immeasurable sapience of a boy of twenty-one. She brought thirty thousand a year to the restoration of our dilapidated fortunes; and she did restore them. You know what a County is: well, little by little she got a grip on the County, and now she just runs it. I tell you, the County has taken to spending every bit of the year it can in town or abroad; when it gets within thirty miles of her, it daren't call its life its own." "By Jove!" said Lord Crosland earnestly. |