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As she came down in her habit, she was met by Frank, returning from his tutor. "Have I made a mistake, Cecil! I thought we were to go out together this afternoon!" "Yes; but Raymond was wanted at Willansborough, and I am going to lunch at Sirenwood. I want to borrow a book." "Oh, very well, I'll come, if you don't mind. Sir Harry asked me to drop in and look at his dogs."
"Shall I drive you down?" she added graciously, according to the fashion of uniting with one sister-in-law against the other; and Rosamond not only accepted, but asked to be taken on to Willansborough, to buy a birthday present for her brother Terry, get stamps for an Indian letter, and perform a dozen more commissions that seemed to arise in her mind with the opportunity.
Duncombe; "but I am afraid your senator will not be as much absorbed in the dogs as my captain." "I did not come with my husband," said Cecil; "he is gone to Willansborough to meet the architect." "Ah, about the new buildings. I do hope and trust the opportunity will not be wasted, and that the drainage will be provided for." "You are longing to have a voice there," said Lady Tyrrell, laughing.
And when she sat down to wait for the others, Mrs. Poynsett ventured on telling her the prescription and her own perplexity, hoping for a voluntary offer to employ Anne at Willansborough; but Cecil only pitied her for having 'no resources'; and when Mrs. Poynsett ventured to suggest finding a niche for her in the work-room, the answer was "Our days are all disposed of." "You have two, I think?"
A good man ther was of religion, That was a poure Persone of a toune; But rich he was of holy thought and work, He also was a learned man a clerk. Autumn came round again, and brought with it a very different September from the last. Willansborough was in a state of commotion.
"Julius and Rosamond by the down train at Willansborough, at 4.50. One of you must drive old Snapdragon in the van for them. They will not mind when they understand; but there's that poor wife of Miles's, I wish she could have come a few days earlier. Her friend, Mrs. Johnson, is to drop her by the express at Backsworth, at 3.30." "Inconvenient woman!" "I imagine that she cannot help it; Mrs.
When Julius joined them he declared it to be at Willansborough, and set off to call up the coachman and despatch the fire-engine, his wife calling after him to send for the soldiers at Backsworth.
It had been an untoward day. He had been striving hard against the stream at Willansborough. The drainage was not only scouted as an absurd, unreasonable, and expensive fancy, but the architect whom he had recommended, in the hope that he would insist on ground-work which might bring on the improvement, had been rejected in favour of a kinsman of Mr.
Charnock had insisted on endowing his daughter as largely as he justly could, to compensate for this change in her expectations, and was in doubt between Swanmore, an estate on the Backsworth side of Willansborough, and Sirenwood itself, to purchase and settle on her.
At last, during the first spring after Raymond Charnock Poynsett, Esquire, had been elected member for the little borough of Willansborough, his mother, while riding with her two youngest boys, met with an accident so severe, that in two years she had never quitted the morning-room, whither she had at first been carried.
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