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But now she asked herself if it were possible for her longer to endure it if she were to be condemned to intercourse with people like that thing down in the garden. If her uncle's other friends in Glenford were of that grade she could not stay here. She smiled in spite of her irritation as she thought of the woman's words "Anywhere where the people had good manners." Good manners, indeed!
Dick Lancaster walked to Broadstone the next morning because Captain Asher was obliged to go to Glenford on business, but the young man did not in the least mind a six-mile walk on a fine morning. All the way to Glenford the captain thought of Olive; sometimes he wished she had never come to him.
But when he gets to Glenford he can find out everything about that young man without asking any questions. He is a very discreet person. And I am also a discreet person," she added, "and you shall have no connection with my messenger's errand." After breakfast the next morning Mrs. Easterfield took Olive aside.
"Now, Olive," said she, for she was now very familiar with her guest, "I will leave the return route to you. Shall we go back by the river road and the scenery will be very different when going in the other direction or shall we drive over to Glenford, and go home by the turnpike? That is a little farther, but the road is a great deal better?" "Oh, let us go that way," cried Olive.
When the captain drove into Glenford on the day when his mind had been so much disturbed by Dick Lancaster's questions regarding a marriage between him and Maria Port, he stopped at no place of business, he turned not to the right nor to the left, but went directly to the house of his old friend with whom he had spent the night before. Mr.
The captain did not wish his old servant to imagine that it was necessary for him to run after his niece, and so he answered rather quickly: "Of course not." Then he set off toward the town. He did not walk very fast, for if he met Olive he would rather have a talk with her on the road than in Glenford.
And at the terrified girl, who tremblingly asked if she wanted any more water, she threw her scissors. The captain and his niece arrived early in the day at Glenford station. The captain engaged a little one-horse vehicle which had frequently brought people to the toll-gate, and informed the driver that there was no baggage.
Oh, I wish we had asked! It was cruel in me not to!" "Now, that is all nonsense," said Mrs. Easterfield. "If anything serious is the matter with your uncle he most surely would have let you know, and, besides, both the doctors in Glenford are elderly men. I do not believe there is the slightest reason for your anxiety.
"No matter what you tell me, I don't believe a word about his ever doin' anything." With this she walked to the little phaeton, into which the captain helped her. "Uncle John," said Olive, a few minutes later, "are there many people like that in Glenford?" "My dear child," said the captain, "the people in Glenford, the most of them, I mean, are just as nice people as you would want to meet.
The people of Glenford will be your everlasting debtors. It might be a good thing to invite Maria Port out here. You could give her the best time she ever had in her life, telling her about the Broadstone people." "Maria Port, indeed!" said Olive. "But we won't talk of her. And you really are willing I should go?" "I speak the truth when I say I want you to go," replied the captain.
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