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The Mertons seemed pleased with the river, and, having a fresh southerly wind in our favour, with a strong flood-tide, we actually landed at the mill the same afternoon. Everything is apt to be agreeable when the traveller gets on famously; and I thought I never saw Emily in better spirits than she was when we first reached the top of the ascent that lies above the landing.
I don't quite see my way clear yet. It's sort of sharp and sudden. I cannot get the poor Mertons out of my head people that have been accustomed to their carriages and all. It's hard for them! You see, what they say is that their financial facilities have been withdrawn, and I dare say nobody is to blame. It is just what they call the hand of God, in a bill of lading just the hand of God."
And whom have we to consult but ourselves? I know you have no near relations. As for cousins, it doesn't take long to write them a few notes, and ask them to the wedding." Diana sighed. "My only cousins are the Mertons. They are all in Barbadoes but Fanny." Her tone changed a little. In her thoughts, she added, hurriedly: "I sha'n't have any bridesmaids!" Marsham, discreetly, made no reply.
"Come, Ernest, you must not cut these unfortunate Mertons any longer. If you continue to do so, do you know what Mrs. Hare and the world will say?" "No what?" "That you have been refused by Miss Merton." "That would be a calumny!" said Ernest, smiling. "Or that you are hopelessly in love with Miss Cameron."
I had invited the Mertons to pass part of the summer at the farm, moreover, and it was time the invitation should be renewed, for the Major's physicians had advised him to choose some cooler residence than the streets of a hot close town could furnish, during the summer months.
'Oh! half the rooms can be made Knight's Templar's horses and carry double, said Elizabeth; 'Mrs. Hazleby and both the girls may very well be in the blue room. 'And there is the best room for the Mertons, and Horace's for Rupert, said Katherine. 'Poor Horace! it is a shame that he, who laid the first stone, should not be at the Consecration, said Elizabeth.
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