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Their society is unnecessary to me, to say the least, and their curiosity annoys and alarms me: if I gratify it, it may lead to the ruin of my son, and if I am too mysterious it will only excite their suspicions, invite conjecture, and rouse them to greater exertions—and perhaps be the means of spreading my fame from parish to parish, till it reach the ears of some one who will carry it to the Lord of Grassdale Manor.
Hattersley had driven them over to Grassdale in the phaeton, with little Helen and Ralph, and we were all enjoying ourselves in the garden—I had a few minutes’ conversation with that gentleman, while the ladies were amusing themselves with the children. ‘Do you want to hear anything of your husband, Mrs. Huntingdon?’ said he. ‘No, unless you can tell me when to expect him home.’
"Please your honour, it's getting late, we had better be jogging!" "You are right," said Walter spurring his jaded horse, and nodding his adieu to the Gipsy, he was soon out of sight of the encampment. "Sir," said the Corporal joining his master, "that is a man as I have seed afore; I knowed his ugly face again in a crack 'tis the man what came to Grassdale arter Mr.
Walter Lester, I came to Grassdale! the enchanting scenery around the sequestered and deep retirement of the place arrested me at once. 'And among these valleys, I said, 'will I linger out the rest of my life, and among these quiet graves shall mine be dug, and my secret shall die with me!
With those words he turned from the house, and proceeded on foot towards a cottage half way between Grassdale and the Magistrate's house, at which, previous to his return to the former place, he had prudently left the Corporal not willing to trust to that person's discretion, as to the tales and scandal that he might propagate throughout the village on a matter so painful and so dark.
Happily, there were none of Arthur’s ‘friends’ invited to Grassdale last autumn: he took himself off to visit some of them instead. I wish he would always do so, and I wish his friends were numerous and loving enough to keep him amongst them all the year round. Mr. Hargrave, considerably to my annoyance, did not go with him; but I think I have done with that gentleman at last.
The summer visitants among the feathered tribe yet lingered in flocks, showing no intention of departure; and their song but above all, the song of the sky-lark which, to the old English poet, was what the nightingale is to the Eastern seemed even to grow more cheerful as the sun shortened his daily task; the very mulberry-tree, and the rich boughs of the horse chesnut, retained something of their verdure; and the thousand glories of the woodland around Grassdale were still chequered with the golden hues that herald, but beautify Decay.
The hamlet to which I shall here give the name of Grassdale, is situated in a valley, which for about the length of a mile winds among gardens and orchards, laden with fruit, between two chains of gentle and fertile hills.
His forefathers, without pretending to high antiquity of family, had held the dignity of squires of Grassdale for some two centuries; and Rowland Lester was perhaps the first of the race who had stirred above fifty miles from the house in which each successive lord had received his birth, or the green churchyard in which was yet chronicled his death.
‘In —shire,’ was the brief reply; and there was something so cold and dry in the manner of it, that I was effectually deterred from requesting a more definite account. ‘When will she return to Grassdale?’ was my next question. ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Confound it!’ I muttered. ‘Why, Markham?’ asked my companion, with an air of innocent surprise.
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