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William Mohun might be installed as mistress of the New Court before Eleanor's departure, which took place early in October; and shortly after Mrs. Ridley, who had come on a visit to Beechcroft, to take leave of her brother, returned to the north, taking with her the little Harry.
I could read appreciation in your eyes and gesture; such appreciation, as I knew, could only come from an artist. G.W. Barnett helped me in planning this cottage and the garden." "What! Barnett the landscape painter! I am a great admirer of his work. Were you a pupil of his?" "Yes, he was one of the visiting R.A.'s at the Beechcroft Studio in St. John's Wood, where I worked for three years.
She, of course, succeeded to the estates, and decided at once to live at Beechcroft. Does she still live there?" "Yes. I am told she is distinguished for her charity and good works. She is married." "Ah! To whom?" "To an Italian, named Giovanni Capella." "His stage name?" "No; he is really an Italian." Brett's pleasantry was successful in its object.
Various arrangements had to be made, and it was far on in August that the farewells were exchanged with Clipstone and Beechcroft Cottage, where each member of the party felt that a real friend had been acquired. The elders, ladies who had grown up in an enthusiastic age, were even more devoted to one another than were Anna and Mysie.
'Stay, I believe she did break some glass or other, and blurted out her confession in full assembly, but I was over at Beechcroft, and I am happy to say I didn't see her. Mysie's tap came early to her mother's door the next morning, and it was in the midst of her toilette that Lady Merrifield was called on to hear the confession that had been weighing on the little girl's mind.
Maurice lodged in the same house one year when he went to learn German and attend lectures, and he went back again every long vacation. At last came your dear grandfather's death. Maurice hurried away from Beechcroft immediately after the funeral, and the next thing that was heard of him was that he had married Miss Hay.
"What can have become of Capella?" said David Hume, when they were all seated and bowling along the road to Beechcroft. "It is impossible to say what such a mad ass would be up to," commented his cousin. "He has probably gone back to London from some wayside station, and failed to find his servant to tell him before the train moved on." "What do you think, Mr. Brett?" inquired Winter.
What would happen when it became known that the rector's daughter had been attacked by the Squire of Beechcroft in the park meadow, and saved from his embraces only after a vigorous struggle, in which her defender was David Hume-Frazer, concerning whom the villagers still spoke with bated breath? Of course, the girl imagined that many people must have witnessed the occurrence.
Stebbing saw her visitors depart. 'And I hope her husband will give it to her well, said Mr. White, as they left the house. They looked in at Beechcroft Cottage with the tidings. 'All safe, I see! cried Miss Jane. 'Is the money found? 'No; Mrs. Stebbing burnt it, under the impression that it was a love- letter, drily said Sir Jasper.
There was some trouble about a sequestered estate now our place in Scotland which belonged to his wife's brother, a Hume and a rebel. Anyhow, in 1763, he fought a duel with Hume's son, his own nephew by marriage, and was killed." "Really," broke in Brett, "this ancient history " "Is quite to the point. Sir Alan the first fought and died in front of the library at Beechcroft."
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