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I had nearly finished the work I had undertaken, and was intending to come to Liverpool direct at the end of the following week, when my design was frustrated by a curious and most unexpected circumstance. About three miles from Upholland there is a very high hill called Ashurst.
Pretty maid an' gude maid she was, though they wouldn't burry 'er up to th' church, nor where she wanted to be burried neither." The old labourer paused, and put his hairy, twisted hand flat down on the turf beside the bluebells. "Yes?" said Ashurst. "In a manner of speakin'," the old man went on, "I think as 'twas a love-story though there's no one never knu for zartin.
But pshaw! as for that every mother is ambitious for her daughter. Why, my mother left no stone unturned until she had married Edith to Lord Ashurst, and I must admit that I was easily led by my mother. Why, I've been out for a rich wife ever since I left school; but, Ethel, I've changed.
All day Ashurst rested his knee, in a green-painted wooden chair on the patch of grass by the yew-tree porch, where the sunlight distilled the scent of stocks and gillyflowers, and a ghost of scent from the flowering-currant bushes. Beatifically he smoked, dreamed, watched.
Jack gave a little gulp, but went on manfully, "Well, never mind, we'll find something else that we can do." "Mr. Ashurst says Jack is the 'handiest' boy he ever saw, Papa," put in Arthur eagerly. "Well, handiness is a capital stock-in-trade. Now, dears, one thing, be as good and gentle as possible with Mamma, and don't trouble her a bit more than you can help."
Conversation of any sort, and with any person, was a necessity to this young man, and Mr. Dale was better than no one. "I've just been to the rectory," he said, as he reached the older man's side. "I suppose so," Mr. Dale answered shortly. Perhaps he was the only person in Ashurst who was not blinded by the glamour of that World which Mr.
So, Edna felt she had made quite a discovery, and planned all sorts of times with Nettie when the winter was over. Matters went on at school uninterruptedly, until just before Christmas, when it was suddenly made known that Miss Ashurst was to be married, and that another teacher would take her place after the holidays.
Ashurst as he spoke was evidently becoming weaker and weaker, and although Owen would gladly have obtained more information from him, yet he had not the heart to do so. He had very little hope indeed that Ashurst would recover, but still was unwilling to tell him how ill he was, lest it should lower his spirits and do harm.
And then she tried to disguise her thought by saying to herself that there were no girls in Ashurst who were not "suitable." "Good-evening," some one said gayly. It was Mr. Forsythe, who had come so quietly along the path, dark with its arching laburnums and syringas, she had not heard him. "Oh," she said, with a little start of surprise, "I did not know we were to see you to-night.
Narracombe nodded sagely. The parlour, brick-floored, with bare table and shiny chairs and sofa stuffed with horsehair, seemed never to have been used, it was so terribly clean. Ashurst sat down at once on the sofa, holding his lame knee between his hands, and Mrs. Narracombe gazed at him.
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