Maulever Hall
“I shall wear you away with my moods and exhaust you with my tempers.” Her laugh belied her words. “But, look, there is poor Jim Barnes with the hangdog air of a man condemned. Tell him he is not dismissed.”“Your first command?”“My first petition, my darling.”He jumped from his horse and turned to hand her down, then called to Jim Barnes who was being very busy with his back to them in a corner of the yard. “You—Jim—here a moment.”“Yes, sir?” The groom came forward reluctantly and Marianne suspe...cted she could detect the traces of tears on his grimy and weather-beaten face.“You have served me how long?” Mauleverer had kept Marianne’s hand in his and now pulled her gently to his side. She saw Jim Barnes’s faded blue eyes flicker with sudden comprehension before he answered: “Twenty years, sir, and your father thirty before that.”“Too long to be learning new tricks, eh? Well, Miss Lamb here says it was all her fault and I must forgive you. Indeed, I do not see how I can help it, since she has merely had her way with you, as she does with the rest of us.MoreLess
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