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A word from me at this moment would be an effective kindness. Abbots' House was vacant, with a garden so extensive that the ladies would not miss the country. Another party was after it, but 'Say no more, I cried; 'no party but my dear old friend Anne Ashleigh shall have Abbots' House. So that question is settled. I dismissed Mr. Vigors, sent for my carriage, that is, for Mr.
I asked them to meet you all here to-night; but Mrs. Ashleigh was tired. The last of the furniture was to arrive today; and though dear Mrs. Ashleigh is an undecided character, she is not inactive. But it is not only the planning where to put tables and chairs that would have tried her today: she has had Mr.
I do not wonder that Miss Ashleigh rejected him." I said this, for I was nettled, as well as surprised, at the coolness with which a lady who had professed a friendship for me mentioned that fortunate young gentleman, with so complete an oblivion of all the antecedents that had once made his name painful to my ear. In turn, my answer seemed to nettle Mrs. Poyntz.
I then went up-stairs to join my daughter, and to my terror found her apparently lifeless in her chair. She had fainted away." I interrupted Mrs. Ashleigh here. "Has Miss Ashleigh been subject to fainting fits?" "No, never. When she recovered she seemed bewildered, disinclined to speak. I got her to bed, and as she then fell quietly to sleep, my mind was relieved.
Vigors had sought Lilian in that nook, and Mrs. Ashleigh then detected, with a mother's eye, some change in Lilian which alarmed her. She seemed listless and dejected, and was very pale; but she denied that she felt unwell. On regaining the house she had sat down in the room in which we then were, "which," said Mrs.
Kirby Hall passed to Ashleigh Sumner, the male heir, a cousin. And the luckiest of cousins! He died years ago, leaving an only son, Sir James, who was killed last winter, by a fall from his horse. And here, again, Ashleigh Summer proved to be the male heir-at-law. During the minority of this fortunate youth, Mrs. Ashleigh had rented Kirby Hall of his guardian.
She finished the careful folding of her work, and then laid it at rest in the drawer of the table at which she sat. Having so done, she turned to me, and said, "By the way, I ought to have introduced to you my young guest, Mr. Ashleigh Sumner. You would like him. He has talents, not showy, but solid. He will succeed in public life." "So that young man is Mr. Ashleigh Sumner?
"Did she never, then never suffer him even to take her hand?" "Never. Do not think so meanly of her as to suppose that she could be caught by a fair face, a graceful manner. Reflect: just before she had refused, for your sake, Ashleigh Sumner, whom Lady Haughton said 'no girl in her senses could refuse; and this change in Lilian really began before we returned to L , before she had even seen Mr.
Although she was sorry to lose her dear Miss Lucy, she was much interested in the circumstance that she was going to Ashleigh, and sent many grateful messages to Mrs. Ford and Bessie. To the latter she sent a present of a little silk necktie, bought, with great satisfaction, out of her first wages.
Vigors in excluding me from the house; aid me in suppressing a presumptuous, visionary passion. I cannot enter that house without love and hope at my heart; and the threshold of that house I must not cross if such love and such hope would be a sin and a treachery in the eyes of its owner. I might restore Miss Ashleigh to health; her gratitude might I cannot continue.
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