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She would probably go to Cairo for the winter with young Lady Tobermory grandniece by marriage of her late godmother and benefactress whose lungs were pronounced to be badly touched. Might she, therefore, come to Brockhurst to say good-bye? And to this proposed visit Richard offered no opposition, though he received the announcement of it without any marked demonstration of pleasure.
As Julius rose his knees gave under him. He rested both hands heavily on the table, looked down, saw the unsightly packet of dirty chap-books. Again, and almost with a cry, he prayed that things might continue as they were at Brockhurst. "Give peace in my time, oh Lord!" he said. Then he wrapped up the little bundle carefully, sealed and labelled it, and locked it away in one of the table-drawers.
At Brockhurst I could fancy myself to have found the Fortunate Isles of which you spoke just now. I have been very happy there too happy, perhaps, and therefore, to-day, the whip has come down across my back, just to remind me." "Ah! now you say the painful things," Dick interrupted. "Pray don't I I don't like them."
Regardless of the slightly flustered remonstrances of his wife and daughters, he lingered, expending himself in innocently confused compliment, supplemented by prophecies regarding the blessings destined to descend upon Brockhurst and the mother parish of Sandyfield in virtue of Lady Calmady's advent. But at length he also was gone. Katherine waited, her eyes full of laughter, until Mr.
"Here, my dearest," she said, "at home, at Brockhurst, with me." "Ah yes!" he said, "of course, I remember, I'm dying." He waited a little space, and then, turning his head on the pillow so as to have a better view of her, spoke again: "I was floating right out the under-tow had got me it was sucking me down into the deep sea of mist and dreams. I was so nearly gone and you brought me back."
When, with a diplomatic ingenuity upon which I cannot but congratulate myself, I suggested the advisability of a return to Brockhurst, in the civilest way in the world he showed me the door. Impertinence is not my forte. I am by nature humble-minded. But, I give you my word, that was a little episode of which I do not crave the repetition."
Declaring, moreover, that as judgment on his perfidy and lust, no owner of Brockhurst should reach the life limit set by the Psalmist, and die quiet and Christianly in his bed, until a somewhat portentous event should have taken place namely, until, as the jingling rhyme set forth:
How the brother of the said Zachary, a gallant young soldier, was killed at the battle of Ramillies in 1706. Dueling, lightning during a summer storm, even the blue-brown waters of the Brockhurst Lake in turn claim a victim.
Chief among the latter was Ludovic Quayle, a younger son of Lord Fallowfeild whom that kindly if not very intelligent nobleman had long ago proposed to export from the Whitney to the Brockhurst nursery with a view to the promotion of general cheerfulness. Mr.
Thus did Marie de Mirancourt, for love's sake, condemn herself to exile, thereby rendering possible among other things Julius's continued residence at Brockhurst.
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