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Why, you've eaten nothing, I'm sure.... Well, now, it is rather inconvenient that the other maid is not here to show you the ways of the house a little, but she left last Saturday, and Miss Aldclyffe has been making shift with poor old clumsy me for a maid all yesterday and this morning. She is not come in yet. I expect she will ask for you, Mrs.
'Here it is, madam, he replied, politely handing her a pamphlet containing the names. Miss Aldclyffe turned the leaves till she came to the letter M. The name she hoped to find there was there, with the address appended, as was the case with all the rest. The address was at some chambers in a street not far from Charing Cross.
Miss Aldclyffe went out of doors, and down the steps to the lawn: then turning to the left, through a shrubbery, she opened a wicket and passed into a neglected and leafy carriage-drive, leading down the hill. This she followed till she reached the point of its greatest depression, which was also the lowest ground in the whole grove.
The small gentry about Knapwater seemed unpractised to Miss Aldclyffe, Miss Aldclyffe herself seemed unpractised to Mr. Nyttleton's experienced old eyes. 'Now then, the lady said, when she was alone with the lawyer; 'what is the result of our advertisement? It was late summer; the estate-agency, building, engineering, and surveying worlds were dull.
The death of a wife, and such a death, was an overwhelming matter in her ideas of things. 'Is it a man or woman? she said, quite innocently. 'Mr. Manston, said Miss Aldclyffe quietly. 'Mr. Manston attracted by me now? said Cytherea, standing at gaze. 'Didn't you know it? 'Certainly I did not. Why, his poor wife has only been dead six months. 'Of course he knows that.
Miss Aldclyffe had possibly recognized him, but Manston had not, and feeling that it was indispensable to keep the purport of his visit a secret from the steward, he thought it would be as well, too, to keep his presence in the village a secret from him; at any rate, till the day was over.
Miss Aldclyffe and Manston were both standing; Manston with his back to the window, his companion facing it. The lady's demeanour was severe, condemnatory, and haughty. No more was to be seen; Anne then turned sideways, leant with her shoulder against the shutters and placed her ear upon the hole. 'You know where, said Miss Aldclyffe. 'And how could you, a man, act a double deceit like this?
To hearts in a despairing mood, compulsion seems a relief; and docility was at all times natural to Cytherea. She promised, and sat down. Miss Aldclyffe shut the door upon her and retreated. She sewed, stopped to think, shed a tear or two, recollected the articles of the treaty, and sewed again; and at length fell into a reverie which took no account whatever of the lapse of time.
To his surprise, Miss Aldclyffe did not put it. The man thought her object in altering an old house must have been an unusually absorbing one not to prompt what was so instinctive in owners as hardly to require any prompting at all. 'Thank you: that's sufficient, Strooden, she said.
Morris in her letter said that Miss Aldclyffe prayed for me yes, she heard her praying for me, and crying. Miss Aldclyffe did not mind an old friend like Mrs. Morris knowing it, either. Yet in opposition to this, notice her dead silence and inaction throughout this proceeding. 'It is a mystery; but never mind that now, said Owen impressively. 'About where Mrs. Manston has been living.
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