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Updated: June 21, 2025
He has reasons for wishing to live in the strictest retirement. I answer for his being an honorable man, to whom you can safely let your house. More than this I am not authorized to tell you. My father knows the landlord of Browndown; and that is what the reference said to him, word for word. Isn't it provoking? The house was let for six months certain, the next day. It is wretchedly furnished.
Whether my courage would have held out through the walk from Browndown to the rectory whether I should have shrunk from it when I actually found myself in Lucilla's presence is more than I can venture to decide.
He absolves me from the engagements towards him into which I so rashly entered, at our last interview before I left Browndown. Most generously and amply he has redeemed his pledge to Madame Pratolungo to discover the place of my retreat and to restore me to Lucilla. For the present he remains abroad.
My past suspense in the darkened room with Lucilla seemed to be a mere trifle by comparison with the keener anxieties which I suffered now. I saw Grosse's eyes glaring discontentedly at me through his spectacles. He had good reason to look at me as he did I had never before been so stupid and so disagreeable in all my life. Towards the end of the dinner, there came news from Browndown at last.
The one thing to do, was to follow her as speedily as possible. A pastoral solitude reigned round the lonely little house. I went on beyond it, into the next winding of the valley. Not a human creature was to be seen. I returned to Browndown to reconnoiter. Ascending the rising ground on which the house was built, I approached it from the back. The windows were all open. I listened.
He handed me a letter addressed to me in Oscar's handwriting. "How is your master?" I asked. "Not very well, when I saw him last." "When you saw him last?" "I bring sad news, ma'am. There's a break-up at Browndown." "What do you mean? Where is Mr. Oscar?" "Mr. Oscar has left Dimchurch." The Brothers change Places I VAINLY believed I had prepared myself for any misfortune that could fall on us.
He closed the door again, and came back to me. "You refused to take my hand when you came in," he said. "Will you take it now? I leave Browndown when you leave it; and I won't come back again till I bring Oscar with me. "Both hands!" I exclaimed and took him by both hands. I could say nothing more.
I have another humiliating confession to make I tried to get off going to Browndown. But I had my reason too. If I disapproved of the resolution at which Nugent had arrived, I viewed far more unfavorably the selfish weakness on Oscar's part, which had allowed his brother to sacrifice himself. Lucilla's lover had sunk to something very like a despicable character in my estimation.
When she was told as told she must be of the dreadful delusion into which she had fallen, what would be the result to Oscar? what would be the effect on herself? I own I shrank from pursuing the inquiry. When we reached the turn in the valley, I looked back at Browndown for the last time. The twin-brothers were still in the place at which we had left them.
Certainly. Name of "Browndown." Another ten minutes of walking, involving us more and more deeply in the mysterious green windings of the valley and the great event of the day happened at last. "Here we be!" So this is Dimchurch! I shake out the chalk-dust from the skirts of my dress. We advance along the little road. I smile upon the population. The population stares at me in return.
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