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'Please kiss my words and forgive me, as you read this, dear mamma; I never guessed I was going to be so like Dolores. 'Kitty has come to my door to ask if I should like to come and read something nice and Sundayish with them in her grandmamma's dressing- room. -So no more from your loving GILL.
They are rather new baronets, created by George II. However, I believe grandmamma's scheme is for us to become acquainted with them, and for me to marry whichever of them is the right age. The present baronet's name is Sir Antony; it is a pretty name, I think. How this is to come about I do not know, and of course I dare not question grandmamma. How I wish it was summer again!
"Not so; but it hath been the longest night That e'er I watched, and the most heaviest." I am writing four days later than my last sentence, and I wonder whether things have finished beginning to happen. Grandmamma's Tuesday was the day after I writ. The Newtons were there, at least Mrs Newton and Miss Theresa, and ever so many people whom I knew and cared nothing about.
"It's not that, thank you," said Babie, laying her head on the kind shoulder, "for I don't think it was my fault; but mother will be so sorry for her key. It is the key of her davenport, and father's picture is there, and grandmamma's, and the card with all our hairs, and she will be so sorry."
There is a pretty house looking like a hotel, an apartment house, very moderate since it only accommodates three families. Joseph, the eldest son, who should have been a doctor, but is a fine architect, is married, and with his wife and two babies, and a dear friend who is an artist, has one side, and the other is grandmamma's.
And the next day, when my Uncle Charles said he would show us some of the fine things in the City, and we were driving in Grandmamma's coach towards Newgate, my Aunt Kezia wanted to know what the open space was; and my Uncle Charles told her, "Smithfield." "Smithfield!" cried she. "Pray you, Mr Desborough, bid your coachman stop. I would liever see this than a Lord Mayor's Show."
One day, when they had been at grandmamma's only a fortnight, Nelly saw a neighboring farmer drive up to the front gate, and ran gladly to meet him, for farmer Dale was a cheery old man, who had always seemed very fond of the child.
"I'm sure there was a storm the time he was walking on the water, too," said Duke; "there's the picture of it. When us goes in, sister, us'll get Grandmamma's picture-Bible and look" but suddenly his voice fell, his eager expression faded.
She said she could only be sorry for grandpapa and grandmamma's sake, but that for herself it was great happiness to have been to Knight Sutton Church once more; and she was most thankful that she had come to die in my father's home, after seeing us well settled here, instead of leaving us to come to it as a strange place." "How little we guessed it was for that," said Henrietta.
She was full of excitement at the return of the owners of Ledstone, and gave us a quantity of information about them in spite of grandmamma's aloofness from all gossip. It appears, even in the country in England, Mrs. Gurrage is considered quite an oddity, but every one knows and accepts her, because she is so charitable and gives hundreds to any scheme the great ladies start.
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