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And Muriel assures me she doesn't mind." "Isn't it at Brethaven that Nick Ratcliffe owns a place?" asked Grange. "Yes. Redlands is the name. I went there once with Will. It's a beautiful place on the cliff quite thrown away on Nick, though, unless he marries, which he never will now." Grange looked uncomfortable. "It's not my fault," he remarked bluntly.
If only I could have some fun in Paris now and then, while you played the house-mother at La Crampade! such is the name of our grange. Poor M. de l'Estorade, who fancies he is marrying one woman! Will he find out there are two? I am writing nonsense now, and as henceforth I can only be foolish by proxy, I had better stop.
'A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses: somebody must go, murmured Mrs. Heathcliff, more kindly than I expected. 'Not at your command! retorted Hareton. 'If you set store on him, you'd better be quiet. 'Then I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr. Heathcliff will never get another tenant till the Grange is a ruin, she answered, sharply.
"I knew he would come before long if he were a wise man," she said. But when her cousin wanted to know what she meant, she would not tell him. "No, I can't, Blake," was her answer. "I once promised Muriel never to speak of it. She is very sensitive on the subject." Grange did not press for an explanation. It was not his way.
We shall try to sell the Grange, but shall, of course, come back for a few weeks after the New Year to pack up and make final arrangements, if, as I think probable, our plans are settled by that time." The letter went on to discuss other subjects, but I could not bring my mind to attend to them. I just sat staring at that one paragraph, and reading it over again and again and again.
The couch was close to the open window, where he could feel the warm sunshine, and old Hannah had left him for a short time alone to go and finish packing his little bag, while Daniel Barnett in his best was waiting to see James Ellis, when he came from the house, receive his final instructions, and then have the fly brought to the garden-door for John Grange.
Mamma has just written to say that she cannot possibly have him until Saturday week." Bessie felt a pang of disappointment; she was going home on the Thursday, and would just miss him. What a pity! He had been so kind and friendly to her during her visit at The Grange, and she would have liked to have seen him. She wondered vaguely if he would be disappointed too when he heard that she had gone.
Our journey was ten times more delightful than we had expected it would be, and successful in every way; and yet, although we enjoyed every hour of the trip, we were no sooner fairly on our way home than we became so wildly anxious to get there, that we reached Rudder Grange on Wednesday, whereas we had written that we would be home on Thursday.
Thomas Dawson was head gardener at "The Grange," Sir Henry Weston's beautiful country-house, which lay a little distance beyond Springbrook station. Just outside the station were four cross-roads with a signpost in the middle of them to tell you where each one led.
I went under cover of this escort to the end of their march, and the next morning proceeded to La Grange with no convoy but the few cavalry men I had with me. From La Grange to Memphis the distance is forty-seven miles. There were no troops stationed between these two points, except a small force guarding a working party which was engaged in repairing the railroad.
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