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'I don't think I have provided we can give him an education such as I failed to make proper use of, or Annaple might be luxuriating at Pera at this moment. 'Well! said May, pausing as she looked up the vista of trees at the great house; 'I can't bear it to go out of the old name. 'Names may be taken! 'You don't mean that there's any chance of Oh! not that horrid Mr. Fane? 'Certainly not.
It seems as if the world swam round with wonder and happiness, and she held his hand as if to steady herself, starting however as Annaple opened the door saying, 'We've been sending telegrams with the good news. Then an arch light came into her bright eyes, but the others were behind her, and she said no more.
Mark understood nothing, but Annaple exclaimed, 'Is it his ship? 'Yes, I could swear to it, for see, and he pointed to some grimed, almost effaced, but still legible capitals, which, however, scarcely any one but himself could have read as "Ursula." 'I guided his hand to make those the evening before he was lost, said Mr. Dutton. 'Dear little man! And where did you find it?
'It will save her youth, perhaps her life, whispered Mark, lifting Nuttie's hand to his lips for a moment, and then vanishing, while Annaple recovered enough to say, 'I'm tougher than that, sir. But little Jenny! Oh, Nuttie, I believe it has come in time. I've known all along that one straw more might break the camel's back.
Annaple remembered at last that she ought to go and look after her guests, assisted therein by the pleasure of giving May a hearty kiss and light squeeze, with a murmur that 'all was right. She brought them downstairs just as the gong was sounding, and the rush of girls descending from the schoolroom, and Lady Ronnisglen being wheeled across the hall in her chair.
Dutton showed his wife his old haunts in France, returning to Springfield House, where there was plenty of room for Mr. Egremont to make his home with them. Said Annaple to Miss Nugent, 'I never saw Nuttie so youthful and bright. She is more like a girl than I ever saw her since the first. 'Yes, said Mary, 'she has some one to rest on now. Mr.
So soon as Hobbie recognised the figure of Annaple, in her red cloak and black hood, he could not help exclaiming to himself, "What ill luck can hae brought the auld nurse sae far frae hame, her that never stirs a gun-shot frae the door-stane for ordinar?
'Oh! dear, gasped Annaple, 'I wanted you to be Lord Mayor, and now you'll only be a stupid old country squire. No, no, Nuttie, it's it's it's the sort of thing that one only laughs at because otherwise one would have to do the other thing! And she gripped Nuttie tight round the waist, and laid her head on her shoulder, shaking with a few little sobs, which might be one thing or the other.
'But I've got a hundred a year, charged on poor old Ronnisglen's estate, said Annaple. 'All the others gave theirs up when they married, and I wanted to do so, but my dear mother would not let me; she said I had better try how I got on first. Think of that, Mark, a hundred a year!
'Billy! was the one word Annaple said. 'Yes, Billy and Jenny and all, said Nuttie, 'before you've all died of your horrid place Oh! you haven't heard that part of it. Of course Mark will have to go down to Bridgefield and look after the place, and live like a gentleman. 'Eight hundred a year, murmured Mark, 'and the house at the Home Farm.
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