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One of them is an under-housemaid in the service of Admiral Bartram, at St. Crux-in-the-Marsh. I found that out from Mrs. Attwood's master; and as soon as I arrived at the discovery, I privately determined to make Mrs. Attwood's acquaintance. Stranger still, is it not?" Louisa began to look a little uneasy.
He had been very kindly received by Mr. Bartram; but had been informed by that gentleman that his cousin was not then in a condition to receive visitors. Mr.
"DEAR MR. BARTRAM You only did me justice in supposing that your letter would distress me. If you had supposed that it would make me excessively angry as well, you would not have been far wrong. I have no patience with the pride and perversity of the young women of the present day. "I have heard from Norah. It is a long letter, stating the particulars in full detail.
Kimper," said she after leaving a dainty boot with some instructions about repairs, "Reynolds Bartram came to see you, I suppose, as I warned you he would?" "Yes, ma'am, he came," said the cobbler, selecting some buttons from a box and beginning to affix them to one of the lady's boots. "Did he talk with you on the subject that I supposed he would." "Yes," said Sam, "he did; quite a long time."
In outward appearance Bartram House is a simple gable-roof structure two and a half stories in height, of large, roughly hewn stones with east and west fronts and three dormers lighting the attic.
"No," he resumed; "there's the same danger in leaving it to the admiral that there is in leaving it to George." "There is no danger, Mr. Noel, if you take my advice." "What is your advice?" "Follow your own idea, sir. Take the pen in hand again, and leave the money to Admiral Bartram." He mechanically dipped the pen in the ink, and then hesitated.
"I can't say that he did, ma'am; though he kind o' filled my mind with doubts an' gave me a sort o' sleepless evenin'." "I'm very sorry for that. There's some one else who may trouble you somewhat, and I'm sorry to say that if he does I shall be to blame for it. He is a young lawyer. His name is Reynolds Bartram." "I know him, ma'am; at least, I know him by sight. He's of very good stock, ma'am.
Admiral Bartram only returned to the forbidden subject when he and his nephew parted for the night. "You won't forget to-morrow, George?" "Certainly not, sir. I'll take the dog-cart, and drive myself over after breakfast." Before noon the next day Mr. George Bartram had left the house, and the last chance in Magdalen's favor had left it with him. WHEN the servants' dinner-bell at St.
"It is needless for me to say that I tell you this in the strictest confidence. God knows whether the happy prospect which seems to me to be just dawning will grow brighter or not as time goes on. The oftener I see Mr. George Bartram and he has called on me more than once the stronger my liking for him grows.
Leonard had come up the road from one of the lower fields: he wore neither coat nor waistcoat, and his shirt, open at the throat, showed the firm, beautiful white of the flesh below the strong tan of his neck. Miss Bartram noticed the sinewy strength and elasticity of his form, yet when she looked again at the ferns, she shook her head, and answered: "None, since I cannot have them."
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