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Vermilye is not saved from arrest by being placed in Parliament, he will be outlawed and driven safe out of the country. You see?" Ay, I did, only too well. Though I foresaw that whatever John was about to do, it must necessarily be something that would run directly counter to Lord Luxmore and he had only just signed the lease of Enderley Mills.
John invited him to ride over with him to Enderley. "Enderly? How strange the word sounds! Yet I should like to see the place again," said Ravenel, who decided to accompany John Halifax and Phineas Fletcher in their drive back to Beechwood. He inquired kindly for all the family, and was told that Guy and Walter were as tall as himself, while the daughter
Tod's: John riding thrice a-week over to Norton Bury to bring news of me, and to fulfil his duties at the tan-yard. One could see plain enough and very grateful to me was the sight that whether or no Abel Fletcher acknowledged it, his right hand in all his business affairs was the lad John Halifax. On a lovely August day we started for Enderley.
"You mean, when, yesterday, he offered me, by your lordship's express desire, the lease, lately fallen in, of your cloth-mills at Enderley?" Now, John had not told us that! why, his manner too plainly showed. "And all will be arranged, I trust? Brown says you have long wished to take the mills; I shall be most happy to have you for a tenant." "My lord, as I told your agent, it is impossible.
All that day we sat in our parlour Mr. March's parlour that had been where, through the no longer darkened casement, the unwonted sun poured in. We tried to settle to our ordinary ways, and feel as if this were like all other days our old sunshiny days at Enderley. But it would not do. Some imperceptible but great change had taken place.
His sudden end was so great a shock to the frail life of Ursula, that when they buried John Halifax in the pretty Enderley churchyard they laid to rest with him his wife of three-and- thirty years, who had been a widow but for a few hours. Salathiel, or Tarry Thou Till I Come!
A cottage Rose Cottage for it's all in a bush of cluster-roses, up to the very roof." "Where is Enderley?" "Did you never hear of Enderley Flat, the highest tableland in England? Such a fresh, free, breezy spot how the wind sweeps over it! I can feel it in my face still." And even the description was refreshing, this heavy, sultry day, with not a breath of air moving across the level valley.
For all Enderley, following the master's example, took an interest, hearty even among hearty hard-working England, in the Emancipation of the Slaves. We had our own young people round us, and the day was a glorious day, they declared one and all. John was happy too infinitely happy.
Thus I pondered, until I heard the church bells ring out merrily. The marriage was over. I was just in time to meet them at the front gates, which they entered our Edwin and his wife through a living line of smiling faces, treading upon a carpet of strewn flowers. Enderley would not be defrauded of its welcome all the village escorted the young couple in triumph home.
Thus we were the very best of friends, my sister Ursula and me. John and I talked a little about her of her rosy looks, which he hoped would not fade in their town dwelling and of good Mrs. Tod's wonderful delight at seeing her, when last week they had stayed two days in the dear old cottage at Enderley.
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