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Updated: June 22, 2025
There, among old Wylder and Brandon tombs some painted stone effigies of the period of Elizabeth and the first James, and some much older stone and marble knights praying on their backs with their spurs on, and said to have been removed nearly three hundred years ago from the Abbey of Naunton Friars, when that famous monastery began to lose its roof and turn into a picturesque ruin, and by-gone generations of Wylders and Brandons had offered up their conspicuous devotions, with judging from their heathen lives I fear no very remarkable efficacy.
But the lady on one side was as inflexible as the lady on the other, and the engagement was definitely and absolutely ended. Mr Brandon considered all this as stuff and nonsense. He could not deny that his branch of the Brandons had certainly got a good deal out of Mrs Keswick's family.
'I lighted on him in the village; and I knew Miss Brandon would not forgive me if I allowed him to go away without coming here. I'm bad at genealogies. My mother could tell us all about it we, Brandons, Lakes; Wylders, and Chelfords. At this moment Miss Brandon entered, with her brilliant Cousin Rachel. The blonde and the dark, it was a dazzling contrast.
A few days before Evans was due with the beef herd she rode Papoose away from the ranch, intending to make a long-deferred visit to the Brandons. After covering two-thirds of the distance along the foot of the hills to the V L she saw a rider dip over a ridge two miles away. She unslung Harris's glasses and dismounted to watch for his reappearance.
She was bound by her promise to Percy, and she could only trust that no harm would ensue. 'If it should, thought poor Violet, 'I may honestly hope it is in the way of what I believe my duty; so it would be a cross, and I should be helped under it. And if the Brandons blame me that is a cross again.
The five Brandons had cut across the shoulder of the mountain. The girl wondered at this visit as she heard Lafe Brandon, the father and head of the tribe, ask Harris to put them up for the night. An hour later Harris and Lafe came to her door and she let them in. "The Brandons are riding down to file on a quarter apiece," Harris said.
Soon, after gently smiling at the parlourmaid, who was an old friend of hers because she had once been in service at the Brandons, she found herself standing, a little lost and bewildered, at the corner of Green Lane and Orange Street. Lost and bewildered because one emotion after another seemed suddenly to have seized upon her and taken her captive.
"Besides," added Joe, "Sybil will be here in a little while." "You need not offer me Miss Brandon as an inducement to stay with you, Joe, if you really want me. Twenty Miss Brandons would not make any difference!" "Really?" said Joe smiling. "You are a dear good boy, Ronald, when you are nice," she added presently. "Sit down again."
'Ah, you will enjoy it, said her ladyship, graciously regarding her folly. 'Oh, yes, thank you, said Violet, eagerly. 'Have you been to many balls? 'Only to one; and she blushed deeply, and cast down her eyes. 'And so the Brandons are coming to stay! For how long, mamma? proceeded Theodora. 'From Wednesday to Saturday, said Lady Martindale.
A plain private or hired carriage drove up to the door, and, after ascertaining that the Brandons lived at the house, a business-like looking, elderly gentleman stepped out, paid every demand immediately, and ordered my best clothes on. When I was thus equipped, my nurse was told that she was perfectly welcome to the remainder of my effects, and that I must get into the carriage.
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