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Albinia sometimes thought of going to find her out at Genoa; but this was too utterly wild and impossible, and nothing could be done but to write letters of affectionate inquiry, enclosing them to Lord Belraven. Algernon's answer was solemn, and as brief as he could make anything.
He favoured the University of Oxford by going up with Gilbert for matriculation, when, to the surprise of Mr. Hope, he was not plucked. They were to begin their residence at the Easter term. Mrs. Dusautoy did not confess even to Albinia how much she looked forward to Easter.
Not that your father desires it, but because I have been indulging in a wrong feeling. 'I'm sure you needn't, cried Gilbert. 'It is very impertinent of Mrs. Osborn. Why, if he is an admiral, she was the daughter of an old lieutenant of the Marines, and you are General Sir Maurice Ferrars' first cousin. 'Hush, hush, Gilbert! said Albinia, blushing and distressed. 'Mrs.
Now, this is the last time we will mention the subject! Albinia obeyed, but still hoped. It was well that hope remained, for her task was heavier than ever; Mrs. Meadows was feebler, but more restless and wakeful, asking twenty times in an hour for Mrs. Kendal.
'I don't know what you mean, Aunt Gertrude. 'Don't you remember that boy, that Mrs. Dusautoy Cavendish's son, whom that poor little companion of hers used to call l'Enfant prodigue. I did not know he was a neighbour of yours, as I find from Lucy. 'What did Lucy tell you about him? She did not meet him! cried Albinia, endeavouring not to betray her alarm. 'I mean, did she meet him?
'Oh! as far as we can go on the Woodside road, said Albinia. 'I think the prescription I used to inflict on poor Sophy will not be thrown away here. I always fancy there is a whiff of sea air upon the hill there. Ulick smiled at such a fond delusion, bred up as he had been upon the wildest sea-coast, exposed to the full sweep of the Atlantic storm!
She was too much shocked to find an answer, and Gilbert went on, 'Watched and examined wherever I go not a minute to myself nothing but lessons at Tremblam, and bother at home; driven about hither and thither, and not allowed a friend of my own, nor to do one single thing! There's no standing it, and I won't! 'I am very sorry, said Albinia, struggling with choking tears.
'How long ago was the date of her last letter? 'Nearly three weeks, said Albinia. 'Poor child, how could she write with the catalogue raisonnee of the Louvre to learn by heart? The Dusautoys yearly gave a Christmas tea-party to the teachers in the Sunday-school, who had of late become more numerous, as Mr. Dusautoy's influence had had more time to tell. Mrs.
'I saw nothing of him, said Albinia. 'Perhaps he was looking for Gilbert. 'No, said Lucy, looking up from her work, with a slight blush, and demure voice of secret importance; 'he had only stepped in for a minute, to bring me a new fern. 'Indeed, said her father; 'I was not aware that he took interest in your fernery. 'He knows everything about ferns, said Lucy. 'Mrs.
That moment of parting, though acknowledged to be expedient, did not approach. Gilbert, could not be sent to a public school without risk and anxiety which his father did not like, and which would have been horror to his grandmother; and Albinia herself did not feel certain that he was fit for it, nor that it was her part to enforce it.
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