McClintock laughed as he gave the letter to Ruth. Mrs. She had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. "Thank Heaven! I'm not basely born. I mean that it doesn’t interest you in itself. He did like her, anyhow; he was always pleased to be with her. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:— "Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand, Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. Babies and females have got to keep hold of somebody or go under—anyhow, for the next few generations. If you don't conquer this disgraceful propensity in time, you'll soon come to want; and then nothing can save you. ’ Gerald opened his eyes at her.
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