White Turrets

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Molesworth Mrs.. White Turrets

Chapter One “Hertha.”

Chapter Two. Black and Pink

Chapter Three. At the Dinner-Table

Chapter Four. A First Step

Chapter Five. Misapprehension and Misgiving

Chapter Six. An Opening

Chapter Seven. At White Turrets

Chapter Eight. An Invitation and a Journey

Chapter Nine. The White Weeper

Chapter Ten. Dreams and no Dreams

Chapter Eleven. A Victory

Chapter Twelve. After all these Years

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Eric Balderson was awaiting his mother – not impatiently, he was never impatient about anything – in the drawing-room, as she had foreseen when they went in. And so was tea, thanks to Eric. He was one of those people in whose case it is not difficult to take the bad with the good, for the latter so decidedly predominated. If slow, tiresomely slow sometimes, he was so considerate; if in a certain sense heavy, he was so entirely to be relied upon, and in unselfish thoughtfulness for others, above all in small matters – for in important ones I cannot endorse the popular axiom that “the best of men are selfish” – he was almost like a woman.

“Now, isn’t that nice?” said his mother, appreciatively. “Tea just ready. You are clever, Eric. Isn’t he a good boy, Winifred? Of course it’s all due to my splendid bringing up, but still he does me credit, doesn’t he?”

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“No, no, I don’t think him the least of a hypocrite,” said Winifred, eagerly. “You don’t understand, Celia. He thinks he does, quite honestly. He’s always been put in the position – not told he must care for me, for, of course, with a man of any spirit or principle that would only drive him the other way. And Lennox has plenty of principle and spirit too, of a kind. But he has been tacitly told he does, and so he has come to believe it.”

Celia looked extremely perplexed. This was a new light indeed upon the subject, but a light which seemed, at first at any rate, only to increase the already existing perplexity.

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