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And I can tarry Your love's protracted growing: June reaped that bunch of flowers you carry From seeds of April's sowing." Saint Bede's is one of the most ancient of the minor colleges of Avonsbridge. Its foundress's sweet, pale, suffering face, clad in the close coif of the time of the wars of the Roses, still smiles over the fellow's table in hall, and adorns the walls of combination-room.
"Oh, Henrietta!" expostulated Aunt Maria, "when it is so nicely furnished with the pretty little green-house that dear Arnold built for us too!" "Don't tell me of green-houses! I say it is only a hole. And I to settle down in it to exile myself from Avonsbridge society, that Mrs.
Anstruther, whom Christian well knew by report; an old man, who for forty years had been the depository of the sicknesses and the sorrows of half Avonsbridge. "Go, then, tell your master I think Barker ought to be sent for him at once; and say to Dr. Grey only don't frighten him, for it may be a mere trifle after all that I am afraid he will have to dine out without me today.
But there was no likelihood of using it against Sir Edwin, for Barker brought word that he was absent from his lodgings, and his return was quite indefinite. So in some other way must be inquired into and met this cruel gossip which had been set afloat, and doubtless was now swimming about every where on the slow current of Avonsbridge society.
The apparition before them tall, graceful, and dignified could by no means be mistaken for any thing but a lady such a lady as Avonsbridge, with all its aristocracy of birth and condition, rarely produced. She would have been the same even if attired in hodden gray, but now she was well-dressed in silks and furs. Dr.
To be stared at by cold, sharp, Avonsbridge eyes, or pointed at as "the governess" whom Dr. Grey had married worse, perhaps, as Edward Oakley's daughter, the Edward Oakley whose failings every body knew "Yes," she added, quickly, "I would much rather decline." "Decline! when I have taken so much trouble bought a new dress expressly for these parties! They are bridal parties, Mrs.
"It is no effrontery in a gentleman of his rank and fortune, a visitor at Avonsbridge, to pay a call at Saint Bede's Lodge. Besides, I gave him permission to do so. He was exceedingly civil to me last night, and I must say he is one of the pleasantest young men I have met for a long time. What do you know against him?" "What do I know?" echoed the master, and stopped.
The thrust was so unexpected, unmistakable in its meaning, that Christian, in her startled surprise, said the very worst thing she could have said to the malicious ears which were held open to every thing and eager to misconstrue every thing, "Who told you that?" "Told me! Why all Avonsbridge is talking about it, and about you."
Grey looked up at the exclamation; he never seemed to hear much of what passed around him except when his wife spoke, and then some slight movement often showed that though, silent, he was not an unobservant man. "Invitations!" cried Miss Gascoigne; "the very thing I was expecting. And to the best houses in Avonsbridge, too. This is the result of your At home.
He looked at her eagerly, then shook his head and sighed. "No, my child, you can not help me. It is other people's business, which I am afraid I have no right to tell even to you. It is only that a person has come back to Avonsbridge, who, if I could suppose I had an enemy in the world But here I am telling you."
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