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Gibson, or I should certainly have called to pay my respects sooner. 'I know you are very busy at Ashcombe. I did not expect you to call. Is Lord Cumnor at the Towers? I have not heard from her ladyship for more than a week! 'No! he seemed still detained at Bath. But I had a letter from him giving me certain messages for Mr. Sheepshanks. Mr. Gibson is not at home, I'm afraid? 'No.
'Why, that's Cynthia Kirkpatrick! said Miss Hornblower, taking up a ponderous gold eyeglass to make sure of her fact. 'How she has grown! To be sure it is two or three years since she left Ashcombe she was very pretty then people did say Mr. Preston admired her very much; but she was so young! 'Can you introduce me? asked the impatient young surgeon.
A year or two ago he had heard that she had taken the good-will of a school at Ashcombe; a small town close to another property of Lord Cumnor's, in the same county. Ashcombe was a larger estate than that near Hollingford, but the old Manor-house there was not nearly so good a residence as the Towers; so it was given up to Mr. Preston, the land- agent, for the Ashcombe property, just as Mr.
I shall give Clare something towards her rigging out, and they shall have a breakfast at Ashcombe Manor-house. I'll write to Preston about it. When did you say they were to be married? 'I think they'd better wait till Christmas, and I have told them so.
'Lady Harriet's always full of fancies: she likes persons to-day, and dislikes them to-morrow, said Mrs. Gibson, who was touched on her sore point whenever Molly quoted Lady Harriet, or said anything to imply ever so transitory an intimacy with her. 'You must know a good deal about Mr. Preston, my dear? I suppose you saw a good deal of him at Ashcombe? Mrs.
'How can I help it? said Cynthia impatiently. Then recovering herself she added: 'We knew him so well at Ashcombe, and he's not a man to be easily thrown off, I can tell you. I must be civil to him; it's not from liking, and he knows it is not, for I've told him so. However, we won't talk about him.
'No, said Cynthia; 'it's best to destroy them. We don't want them; and I can't bear to be reminded of that man. 'It was an impertinent familiar note, said Molly. 'What right had he to express himself in that way no beginning, no end, and only initials. Did you know him well when you were at Ashcombe, Cynthia? 'Oh, don't let us think any more about him, replied Cynthia.
I saw the Bristol Channel beneath me as I broke from the clouds, but, having still some petrol in my tank, I got twenty miles inland before I found myself stranded in a field half a mile from the village of Ashcombe.
It is not to be supposed that such an encounter as Mr. Preston had just had with Roger Hamley sweetened the regards in which the two young men henceforward held each other. They had barely spoken to each other before, and but seldom met; for the land-agent's employment had hitherto lain at Ashcombe, some sixteen or seventeen miles from Hamley.
Preston a carte-blanche order for the wedding-breakfast in the old hall in Ashcombe Manor-house. Lady Cumnor a little put out by the marriage not being deferred till her grandchildren's Christmas holidays had nevertheless given Mrs.
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