United States or Monaco ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And then I was just sure you'd be the last person in the world, if you knew, to stand in young people's way! 'I! cried poor Mrs. Leyburn 'I stand in the way! She was getting tremulous and tearful, and Mrs. Thornburgh felt herself a brute. 'Well, she said, plunging on desperately, 'I have been thinking over it night and day.
In 1837, Mr. Houston, with the Rev. George W. Leyburn, who had been sent out to join him, made a tour of observation in Máne, the ancient Sparta, to see if a station ought not to be formed there, in compliance with repeated solicitations from Petron Bey, the hereditary chief in that region.
If there was good news, it was presented in its most sugared form to Mrs. Leyburn; but the moment any element of pain and difficulty cropped up in the common life, it was pounced upon and appropriated by Catherine, aided and abetted by the girls, and Mrs. Leyburn knew no more about it than an unweaned babe.
Leyburn; but the plaintive invalid was immediately seized with terror of her voice and appearance, and was infinitely grateful to Robert for removing her as promptly as possible to a chair on the border of the two rooms where she could talk or listen as she pleased.
'Not that I was annoyed Heavens! what does that matter? but that you and your mother and sister were very near an unpleasant scene. You will not take advice, Miss Leyburn, you will take your own way in spite of what any one else can say or hint to you, and some day you will expose yourself to annoyance when there is no one near to protect you!
Thornburqh! And not a word for him, for him to whom she had given her promise? She had gone to Whinborough to avoid him, and she had gone in the brusquest way, that it might be unmistakable. The young man stood with his hands thrust into the pockets of his long coat, hearing with half an ear the remarks that Mrs. Leyburn was making to him about the picnic.
And she left him, settling herself by the side of Mrs. Leyburn. He had a momentary sense of rebuff. The man, quick, sensitive, sympathetic, felt in the woman the presence of a strength, a self-sufficingness which was not all attractive. His vanity, if he had cherished any during their conversation, was not flattered by its close.
Rose wrote asking to be allowed to go with them to Algiers; and after a little consultation it was so arranged, Mrs. Leyburn being tenderly persuaded, Robert himself writing, to stay where she was. The morning after the interview with Edmondson, Robert sent for Murray Edwardes. They were closeted together for nearly an hour.
Three of Leyburn's sons were there: two of them farmers like himself, one a clerk from Manchester, a daughter married to a tradesman in Whinborough, a brother of the old man, who was under the table before supper was half over, and so on. Richard Leyburn wrote to ask me to come, and I went to support his cloth.
'And I count for nothing to you, mother! her deep voice quivering. 'You could put me aside, you and the girls, and live as though I had never been! 'But you would be a great deal to us if you did marry, Catherine! cried Mrs. Leyburn, almost with an accent of pettishness. 'People have to do without their daughters. There's Agnes I often think, as it is, you might let her do more.
Word Of The Day