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They soon reached the quiet old inn, which had been selected for them by the forethought of the man who loved her well. Here they installed themselves for the night, arranging to go to Budmouth by the first train the next day. At this hour Edward Springrove was fast approaching his native county on the wheels of the night-mail. Manston had evidently resolved to do nothing in a hurry.
Loveday drew from his pocket a paper, and said, as they slowly walked on, 'Here's something to make us brave and patriotic. I bought it in Budmouth. Isn't it a stirring picture? It was a hieroglyphic profile of Napoleon.
You have bought a practice at Budmouth. I don't blame you. Nobody can live at Hintock least of all a professional man who wants to keep abreast of recent discovery. And there is nobody here to induce such a one to stay for other reasons. That's right, that's right go away!" "But no, I have not actually bought the practice as yet, though I am indeed in treaty for it.
Farfrae he remembered had gone to the stable and put the horse into the gig; while doing so Whittle had brought him a letter; Farfrae had then said that he would not go towards Budmouth as he had intended that he was unexpectedly summoned to Weatherbury, and meant to call at Mellstock on his way thither, that place lying but one or two miles out of his course.
Taking from his coat a creased and pocket-worn envelope containing Cytherea's letter to himself, Springrove opened it and read it through. He was upbraided therein, and he was dismissed. But though he accused her of fickleness, he would not doubt the genuineness, in its kind, of her partiality for him at Budmouth.
Anne looked startled. 'He's up to the gunnel in love! We must try to help him on in it, or I fear he'll go melancholy-mad like. 'We help him? she asked faintly. 'He's lost his heart to one of the play-actresses at Budmouth, and I think she slights him. 'O, I am so glad! she exclaimed. 'Glad that his venture don't prosper? 'O no; glad he's so sensible.
He alighted, the Mayor advanced, the address was read; the Illustrious Personage replied, then said a few words to Farfrae, and shook hands with Lucetta as the Mayor's wife. The ceremony occupied but a few minutes, and the carriages rattled heavily as Pharaoh's chariots down Corn Street and out upon the Budmouth Road, in continuation of the journey coastward.
"I don't wish to be more humiliated. If I have anything to bear I can bear it in silence." "But, my dear maid, you are too young you don't know what the present state of things may lead to. Just see the harm done a'ready! Your husband would have gone away to Budmouth to a bigger practice if it had not been for this. Although it has gone such a little way, it is poisoning your future even now. Mrs.
She inclined her head, and swept round so that her eyes rested in the misty vale beneath them. "And in my travels I go near Budmouth.
'Well; he will take that letter as an encouragement. Can't you see that he will, you foolish girl? Anne did see instantly. 'Of course! she said. 'Tell Robert that he need not go. She went to her room to secure the letter. It was gone from the mantelpiece, and on inquiry it was found that the miller, seeing it there, had sent David with it to Budmouth hours ago.
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