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When all four were once more assembled together, they took breath, and began to converse. 'Upon my word, I really do think this is a better room than our Ashcombe Court-house! 'And how prettily it is decorated! piped out Miss Piper. 'How well the roses are made! But you all have such taste at Hollingford. 'There's Mrs.
She says she was advising you to have Molly as a visitor at Ashcombe until we are married. Mrs. Kirkpatrick's countenance fell. If only Molly would be so good as to testify again, as she had done before Lady Cumnor! But if the proposal was made by her father, it would come to his daughter from a different quarter than it had done from a strange lady, be she ever so great.
So piety demanded a new bonnet, or a new gown; and was barely satisfied with an Easter pair of gloves. Miss Rose was generally very busy just before Easter in Hollingford. Then this year there was the charity ball. Ashcombe, Hollingford, and Coreham were three neighbouring towns, of about the same number of population, lying at the three equidistant corners of a triangle.
'She has been accustomed to housekeeping economical housekeeping, too for of late years she has had a school at Ashcombe, and has had, of course, to arrange all things for a large family. And last, but not least, she has a daughter about your age, Molly who, of course, will come and live with us, and be a nice companion a sister for you. Still she was silent. At length she said,
It was the holidays, and mamma was away visiting, and the Donaldsons asked me to go with them to the Worcester Festival. You can't fancy how pleasant it all sounded, especially to me. I had been shut up in that great dreary house at Ashcombe, where mamma had her school; it belonged to Lord Cumnor, and Mr.
I'd have told him if he'd been at home; but you say he was obliged to go to Ashcombe on business. 'Quite obliged. He was so sorry to miss you. But, papa, he will be so angry! You don't know how mad he is against Osborne. Molly dreaded the squire's anger when she gave him her father's message. She had listened, day after day, to Mrs.
I could not have planned it better myself! I shall go down with you on Wednesday in time for the jollification on Thursday. I always enjoy that day; they are such nice, friendly people, those good Hollingford ladies. Then I'll have a day with Sheepshanks, and perhaps I may ride over to Ashcombe and see Preston Brown Jess can do it in a day, eighteen miles to be sure!
Dempster, cried Miss Hornblower; 'she said she and her two daughters were asked to stay at Mr. Sheepshanks'. Mr Preston was to be there, too; but I suppose they could not all come at once. Look! and there is young Roscoe, our new doctor. I declare it seems as if all Ashcombe were here. Mr. Roscoe! Mr.
'Why can't she say at once that Cynthia is here now? asked Molly to herself, yet glad that Mr. Preston's curiosity was baffled. He still smiled; but this time he looked up at Mrs. Gibson, as he asked, 'You have good news from her, I hope? 'Yes; very. By the way, how are our old friends the Robinsons? How often I think of their kindness to me at Ashcombe!
And I know she'd her silk gowns turned and dyed and cleaned, and, for aught I know, turned again, while she lived at Ashcombe. Keeping a school, too, and so near akin to this Queen's counsel all the time! Well, to be sure, it was not much of a school only ten young ladies at the best o' times; so perhaps he never heard of it.
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