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'The Northwold baths have been recommended for Louisa, said Fitzjocelyn. 'Before we knew of your objections, we mentioned Miss Faithfull's lodgings. What the Earl was about to utter, he suppressed. 'You cannot look at those girls and name manoeuvring! cried Louis. 'Poor things. After a silence, Lord Ormersfield added, with more anxiety than prudence, 'Set my mind at rest, Louis.
'I confess that I do, for a few months at least, which need interfere neither with Clara nor with you. I have not seen Lord Ormersfield so eager for many years, and I should be very sorry to prevent those two from being comfortably together in the old home 'And can't that be without a chaperon? exclaimed James, laughing. 'Why, his lordship is fifty-five, and she can't be much less.
She is learning far more than at school, and they are so kind! I should hardly know how to accept it, but Jem does not object, and he is really very useful there, spends a great deal of time on the boy, and is teaching the young ladies Latin. 'They are leaving you lonely in the holidays! You ought to come to Ormersfield, your nephews would take better care of you. 'Ah! I have my Marys.
'I hope Cheveleigh is not grander than Ormersfield, said Clara, in an odd sort of voice. The ladies, for the first time, did not sit together this morning. Clara practised, and Isabel took the Chapel in the Valley out of her desk, and began a process of turning the Sir Roland into Sir Hubert.
'I know this, that old Ormersfield has been the curse of my life! and out poured one of those torrents of fierce passion which had been slowly but surely the death of his wife.
The conversation ended with some good auguries as to the effect of Oliver's return to Peru; and Louis went away cheered, bearing the final dismissal better than his father had expected. Lord Ormersfield attributed his tranquillity to having his mind settled; and so it was, though not quite as his lordship imagined. Meantime, there was a lull at Dynevor Terrace.
Had you not heard of his illness? 'I hear nothing, said Clara, sadly, as she held out her hand to Lord Ormersfield, who had also come to meet her; and her uncle, who followed close behind, was full of cordial rejoicings on the encounter. There was Jane Beckett also, whom Louis next intercepted on her way to the bedrooms, laden with bags, and smiling most joyously to see him.
Charlotte escaped to hide her tears; and when, a few minutes after, the Ormersfield carriage arrived, and nurses and babies were packed in, and her master walked feebly and languidly down stairs, and her mistress turned round to say, kindly, 'You will let me know, Charlotte? she just articulated, 'Thank you, ma'am, I will write. Mr. Frost's words had not been news to Charlotte.
'She spoke truly when she told me that he might not be what I then wished to make him, but something far better. Mary looked up with a satisfied smile of approval, saying, 'I am so glad you think so. 'Yes, said Lord Ormersfield, 'I have thought a good deal since. I have been alone here, and I think I see why Louis has done better than some of his elders.
'Don't go on! I was just going to trust to you for a calm, dispassionate statement of his merits, and I shall soon lose all my faith in you. 'My mother began Mary; but just then Lord Ormersfield came forth from one of the cottages, and encountered the young ladies.
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