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'Now, Cousin Monica, is this fair? You and Doctor Bryerly both talk in the same awful way to me; and I assure you, you don't know how nervous I am sometimes, and yet you won't, either of you, say what you mean. Now, Monica, dear cousin, won't you tell me? 'You see, dear, it is so lonely; it's a strange place, and he so odd. I don't like the place, and I don't like him.
But cheerful wintry suns and frosty skies, long nights, and brilliant starlight, with good homely fires in our snuggery gossipings, stories, short readings now and then, and brisk walks through the always beautiful scenery of Bartram-Haugh, and, above all, the unbroken tenor of our life, which had fallen into a serene routine, foreign to the idea of danger or misadventure, gradually quieted the qualms and misgivings which my interview with Doctor Bryerly had so powerfully resuscitated.
Ruthyn's: does he talk of furnishings and making things a little smart? No! Well, I must say, I think he might. Here there was a little silence, and Doctor Bryerly, with his accustomed simultaneous glance at the door, said in low, cautious tones, very distinctly 'Have you been thinking at all over that matter again, I mean about getting your uncle to forego his guardianship?
It is nearly six months since Miss Ellerton left you too long without a teacher. Then followed an interval. 'Dr. Bryerly will ask you about that key, and what it opens; you show all that to him, and no one else. 'But, I said, for I had a great terror of disobeying him in ever so minute a matter, 'you will then be absent, sir how am I to find the key?
Bryerly, telling him to pay sixteen hundred pounds of poor Austin's legacy to him, and saying that he has paid debts of the young man, and holds his acknowledgments to that amount? He won't have a guinea in a year if he stays here.
Lady Knollys, starting up, raised her head, so as to see over Mr. Sleigh's shoulder, and biting her pale lip, she cleared her voice and demanded 'Doctor Bryerly, pray, sir, is the reading concluded? 'Concluded? Quite. Yes, nothing more, he answered with a nod, and continued his talk with Mr. Danvers and Abel Grimston.
'It appears to have been the will of Heaven hitherto, said Doctor Bryerly I could not see with what expression of face, but he was looking down, and drawing little diagrams with his stick on the dark carpet, and spoke in a very low tone 'that your uncle should suffer under this ill report.
He was not shown up to my uncle's room; on the contrary, Milly, who was more actively curious than I, ascertained that our tremulous butler informed him that my uncle was not sufficiently well for an interview. Whereupon Dr. Bryerly had pencilled a note, the reply to which was a message from Uncle Silas, saying that he would be happy to see him in five minutes.
Indeed I don't know what to make of him; but I am sure when you have thought it over, you will agree with me and Doctor Bryerly, that you must not stay here. It was vain trying to induce my cousin to be more explicit. 'I hope to see you at Elverston in a very few days. I will shame Silas into letting you come. I don't like his reluctance.
It is a solitude its master an outcast, and it has been the repeated scene of all sorts of scandals, and of one great crime; and Lady Knollys thinks your having been domesticated there will be an injury to you all the days of your life. 'So I do, Maud, said Lady Knollys, who had just entered the room unperceived, 'How do you do, Doctor Bryerly? a serious injury.
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