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Hubert had been worried and overworked of late; it had appeared to him a good thing that he should spend a few of the spring days at Beechfield, and try to recover in the society of his sister and his betrothed the serenity that he had lost. But this seemed after all no easy thing to do.
And I shall pray God night and morning as long as the breath is in my body to punish him, and to bring shame and sorrow on himself and all that he loves, as he has brought shame and sorrow on me and mine." Then he turned his face to the wall and would say no more. Beechfield Hall was the name of the old manor-house in which the Vanes had lived for many generations.
The answer came at once, in the deep, resonant, once familiar voice the voice no one had heard in Old Place for nine years nine years with the war having happened in between. "Indeed no, Janet! I've only been back a very short time." I hope you and Mr. Tosswill will believe me when I say it wasn't my fault that I didn't come to Beechfield last year. I hadn't a spare moment!"
Sabina found little to report to Mrs. Vane, who had now returned to Beechfield. Cynthia went nowhere, and received neither visitors nor letters. She had been interviewed by the police-officials; but they had not been able to get any information from her.
Forget her; and rest assured that when Hubert is better he will dismiss her with thanks if thanks are necessary and that we shall soon see him here at Beechfield again. And, my dear, when he is better, I will put no further obstacle in your way, if you still desire the the engagement to go on." "You forget, uncle Richard," said Enid very quietly, "that there was no real engagement."
I think that's what first started this queer reputation of his among the village folk. I tell you he's anything but a welcome guest in the cottages people with evil consciences, you know!" The doctor laughed. "They're afraid of Master Timmy, that's what the bad folks in Beechfield are they think he can 'blight' them, bring ill-luck on them.
Piper," he exclaimed, "perhaps I ought to tell you frankly that my name is Radmore. I no longer call myself 'Major Radmore. My address for the present is Old Place, Beechfield. But Beechfield alone would find me, and I hope your husband will let me know if I can do anything for him." "There now! Could one ever hope for such a thing coming to pass as my meeting you, sir, accidental like?" Mrs.
"Nine years have made an awful difference to me nine years and the war! But Beechfield, from what I've been able to see of it, seems exactly the same not a twig, not a leaf, not a stone out of place!" "We didn't expect you for another hour at least," said Betty, in her quiet, well-modulated voice.
But, with the faults of its orthography corrected the letter finally stood thus "MADAM I thought you might like to know as how there is a gentleman, named Reuben Dare, lodging here at my aunt's, as seems to have a secret interest in Beechfield. I think, but I am not quite sure, that he spent a few days at the Beechfield inn not long ago.
These were the folk, idle people most of them, and very well-to-do, who, having made fortunes in London, now lived within a radius of five to ten miles round Beechfield. Miss Pendarth was on excellent terms with what one must call, for want of a better name, the cottage class.
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