She and Joey had from the first developed an
instinct for hunting with the hounds, and now these two had fairly
identified themselves with the older generation- that is to say as
against Ernest. On this head there was an offensive and defensive
alliance between them, but between themselves there was subdued but
internecine warfare.
This at least was what Ernest gathered, partly from his
recollections of the parties concerned, and partly from his
observation of their little ways during the first half-hour after
his arrival, while they were all together in his mother's bedroom- for
as yet of course they did not know that he had money. He could see
that they eyed him from time to time with a surprise not unmixed
with indignation, and knew very well what they were thinking.
Christina saw the change which had come over him- how much firmer
and more vigorous both in mind and body he seemed than when she had
last seen him. She saw too how well he was dressed, and, like the
others, in spite of the return of all her affection for her
first-born, was a little alarmed about Theobald's pocket, which she
supposed would have to be mulcted for all this magnificence.
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