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The date of the note was "Woodbridge," and it contained a few lines only. Mr. Bygrave mentioned that his niece was better, and that she sent her love as before. He proposed returning to Aldborough on the next day, when he would have some new considerations of a strictly private nature to present to Mr. Noel Vanstone's mind. In the meantime he would beg Mr.
Lecount before I put you and that woman on speaking terms with each other." "Wait till to-morrow," she broke out impatiently. "Don't madden me by talking about it to-night." The captain said no more. They turned their faces toward Aldborough, and walked slowly back. By the time they reached the houses night had overtaken them. Neither moon nor stars were visible.
The day after is the seventh day since we sent the letter to Zurich. On the seventh day decline to go out walking as before, from dread of the annoyance of meeting me again. Grumble about the smallness of the place; complain of your health; wish you had never come to Aldborough, and never made acquaintances with the Bygraves; and when you have well worried Mrs.
Aldeburgh or as it came to be more commonly spelled in modern times, Aldborough is to-day a pleasant and quiet watering-place on the coast of Suffolk, only a few miles from Saxmundham, with which it is connected by a branch line of the Great Eastern Railway.
At Chillesford, between Woodbridge and Aldborough in Suffolk, and Aldeby, near Beccles, in the same county, there occur stratified deposits, apparently older than any of the preceding drifts of Yorkshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. They are composed at Chillesford of yellow sands and clays, with much mica, forming horizontal beds about twenty feet thick. Messrs.
In a minute more, Captain Wragge's own observation informed him that one among the passengers who left Aldborough that morning was Mrs. Lecount. The main uncertainty disposed of, a serious question suggested by the events of the morning still remained to be solved. Which was the destined end of Mrs. Lecount's journey Zurich or St. Crux? That she would certainly inform her master of Mrs.
Lecount laid down the opera-glass, through which she had been closely investigating these proceedings, with a feeling of helpless perplexity which she was almost ashamed to acknowledge to herself. The secret of Mr. Bygrave's object in suddenly emptying his house at Aldborough of every living creature in it was an impenetrable mystery to her.
When morning rose over Aldborough, the sun was master in the blue heaven, and the waves were rippling gayly under the summer breeze. At an hour when no other visitors to the watering place were yet astir, the indefatigable Wragge appeared at the door of North Shingles Villa, and directed his steps northward, with a neatly-bound copy of "Joyce's Scientific Dialogues" in his hand.
If it had been Vanstone, my father's son might have had a chance of making acquaintance with her." He stopped, and looked back in the direction of Aldborough. "What a fool I am!" he burst out suddenly, striking his stick on the ground. "I was forty last birthday."
My caprices are at an end, and my violent temper has tried your forbearance for the last time. From Captain Wragge to Magdalen. "North Shingles Villa, Aldborough, Suffolk, July 22d. "MY DEAR GIRL Your letter has charmed and touched me. Your excuses have gone straight to my heart; and your confidence in my humble abilities has followed in the sa me direction.
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