Tifto accepted the gratuity, and ultimately became an annual
pensioner on his former noble partner, living on the allowance
made him in some obscure corner of South Wales.
CHAPTER 76
On Deportment
Frank Tregear had come up to town at the end of February. He
remained in London, with an understanding that he was not to see
Lady Mary again till the Easter holidays. He was then to pay a
visit to Matching, and to enter it, it may be presumed, on the
full fruition of his advantages as accepted suitor. All this had
been arranged with a good deal of precision,--as though there had
still been a hope left that Lady Mary might change her mind. Of
course there was no such hope. When the Duke asked the young man
to dine with him, when he invited him to drink that memorable
glass of wine, when the young man was allowed, in the presence of
the Boncassens, to sit next to Lady Mary, it was of course
settled. But the father probably found some relief in yielding by
slow degrees. 'I would rather that there should be no
correspondence till then,' he said both to Tregear and to his
daughter.
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