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He was thinking of what Levi had said to him a few weeks before as he was ending his visit in Bretherton. "Son" he was "son" to the old brother and sister after that trip abroad "son, go back to your hills and see in every ragged boy Sandy Morley! In every little lass your sister Molly! Gather them in, son, gather them in, and let us help them as we helped you to come out cleaner and better.
The servant who opened the door demurred to his request to see Miss Bretherton. 'The doctor says, sir, that at home she must keep quiet; she has not seen any visitors just lately. But Kendal persisted, and his card was taken in, while he waited the result.
But there is one thing, I think, that would make me happier than a hundred Elviras, and that is to see Isabel Bretherton the wife of a man she loved! Then a smile broke over her face as she looked at her brother. 'Do you know, Eustace, I quite made up my mind from those first letters of yours in May, in spite of your denials, that you were very deeply taken with her?
The delightful "Courier François" published by Bretherton at 134 New Bond St. belongs surely to this period; and Thomas Wright, in his valuable "History of Caricature," seems to bear this out when he says of Bunbury that his earlier prints were etched and sold by James Bretherton, who published also the works of James Sayer an artist whom we shall meet in our next chapter.
Another clever print shows the rider of a pulling animal with a mouth of cast-iron just clearing an old woman's barrow; while among the larger prints we have "Richmond Hill," "Hyde Park," "Coxheath Ho," and "Warley Ho," and his inimitable print of a "Riding House," published by Bretherton in 1780.
But in vacation they have the colleges and the parks and the Bodleian to themselves, and you may study their ways, and their spectacles, and their umbrellas, under the most favourable conditions. 'Oh yes, said Miss Bretherton, with a little scorn, 'people always make fun of what they are proud of.
From that time, as the precious bundle of his letters shows, he became the friend of all of us myself, my husband, and the children; though with an increased intimacy from the 'nineties onward. In a subsequent chapter I will try and summarize the general mark left on me by his fruitful and stainless life. His letter to me about Miss Bretherton is dated December 9, 1884.
Poor Wallace threw himself into his seat, looking the picture of misery so far as his face, which Nature had moulded in one of her cheerfullest moods, was capable of it. 'My dear Madame de Châteauvieux, I have no more notion than the man in the moon. Miss Bretherton is an angel, and without Forbes we should have collapsed a hundred times already, and that's about all I know.
For, as Kendal emerged with his sister, his attention was perforce attracted by the little crowd of persons already assembled round the figure of Isabel Bretherton, and, as his eye travelled over them, he realised with a fresh start the full compass of the change which had taken place.
The servant hurried along the ground-floor passage, knocked at the door at the farther end, went in for a moment, and came out beckoning to him. He obeyed with a beating heart, and she threw open the door for him. Inside stood Isabel Bretherton, with eager surprise and pleasure in her whole attitude.
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