[Phantom Fortune, A Novel by M. E. Braddon]@TWC D-Link bookPhantom Fortune, A Novel CHAPTER XXIV 18/45
And who else is it that you are like? There is some one else, I know.
Yes, some one else! I remember! It is a face in a picture--a picture at Maulevrier Castle.' 'What do you know of Maulevrier Castle ?' asked Mary, wonderingly. Maulevrier was the family seat in Herefordshire, which had not been occupied by the elder branch for the last forty years.
Lady Maulevrier had let it during her son's minority to a younger branch of the family, a branch which had intermarried with the world of successful commerce, and was richer than the heads of the house.
This occupation of Maulevrier Castle had continued to the present time, and was likely still to continue, Maulevrier having no desire to set up housekeeping in a feudal castle in the marches. 'How came you to know Maulevrier Castle ?' repeated Mary. 'I was there once.
There is a picture by Lely, a portrait of a Lady Maulevrier in Charles the Second's time.
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