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I dare say!" said Miss Raeburn, stitching away with fiery energy, "but since then a poacher has murdered one of our gamekeepers, which makes all the difference." "What do you mean, Agneta?" "What I say, my dear. The poacher was Marcella's friend, and she cannot now distract her mind from him sufficiently to marry Aldous, though every plan he has in the world will be upset by her proceedings.
But the fact was he had his cowardice, like other men, and he had been trusting to the girl herself, to this beauty he heard so much of, to soften the first shock of the matter to the present mistress of the Court. "We will hope not, Agneta," he said gravely. "We will hope not. But you must remember Aldous is no boy. I cannot coerce him. I see the difficulties, and I have put them before him.
"We must all remember," said Lord Maxwell, getting up and beginning to walk up and down beside them, "that Aldous is in no way dependent upon me. He has his own resources. He could leave us to-morrow. Dependent on me! It is the other way, I think, Agneta don't you?" He stopped and looked at her, and she returned his look in spite of herself.
Why, she laid down the law to you, Henry, as though you had nothing to do but to take your opinions from a chit of a girl like her. Oh! no, no; I really can't; you must give me time. And her father the disgrace and trouble of it! I tell you, Henry, it will bring misfortune!" Lord Maxwell was much troubled. Certainly he should have talked to Agneta beforehand.
It was reopened in 1851 with the 'Court of Oberon: or The Three Wishes, by the Dowager Countess of Hardwicke, with Viscount Royston, the Hon. Eliot Yorke, Mr. Sydney Yorke, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the Hon. John Manners Yorke, Lady Agneta Yorke, the Hon. Victor Yorke, and the Hon. Alexander Yorke in the caste, and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, M.P., as stage manager.
'Don't show my letters to any but the family Pray! 'You will be amused to hear I wear the Turkish dress on these excursions. 'Your most afftn. Son 'PS. Affectionate Love to U. K. and Agneta an affectionate Embrace to H. Y., E. Y. and G. Y. ALEXANDRIA: Dec. 27, 1825.
Give my kindest love to Lady Clanricarde, Urania, and all the boys, not forgetting little Agneta, who by this time must be grown and improved much. 'I remain, my dear Father, 'Your most affectionate son, Admiralty. H.M.S. 'LEANDER, HALIFAX HARBOUR: Aug. 8, 1817.
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