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There are old complications with our affairs at Ashcombe. Money matters are at the root of it all. Horrid poverty do let us talk of something else! Or, better still, let me go and finish my letter to Roger, or I shall be too late for the African mail! 'Is it not gone? Oh, I ought to have reminded you! It will be too late.
For instance, her relations with Mr. Preston were often very puzzling to Molly. She was sure that there had been a much greater intimacy between them formerly at Ashcombe, and that the remembrance of this was often very galling and irritating to Cynthia, who was as evidently desirous of forgetting it as he was anxious to make her remember it.
We shall all be down at the Towers; and it will be a nice amusement for the children to go over to Ashcombe, and see you married. 'I think I am afraid I don't believe Mr. Gibson will like waiting so long; men are so impatient under these circumstances. 'Oh, nonsense! Lord Cumnor has recommended you to his tenants, and I'm sure he wouldn't like them to be put to any inconvenience.
Then there was the contrast between the dinners which she had to share with her scholars at Ashcombe rounds of beef, legs of mutton, great dishes of potatoes, and large barter-puddings, with the tiny meal of exquisitely cooked delicacies, sent up on old Chelsea china, that was served every day to the earl and countess and herself at the Towers.
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