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Updated: June 27, 2025
On the morning of the 23d, when Robert, sitting at his work, was looking at Burwood through the window in the flattering belief that Catherine was the captive of the weather, she had spent an hour or more with Mary Backhouse, and the austere influences of the visit had perhaps had more share than she knew in determining her own mood that day.
'My guardian and director, cried Rose, 'must not begin his functions by misleading and sophistical quotations from the classics! He did not answer for a moment. They were at the gate of Burwood, under a thick screen of wild-cherry trees. The gate was half open, and his hand was on it.
And she walked on homewards meditating, her thin fingers clasped before her, the wind blowing her skirts, the blue ribbons on her hat, the little gold curls on her temples, in a pretty many-coloured turmoil about her. When she got to Burwood she shut herself into the room which was peculiarly hers, the room which had been a stable.
And never had he seemed to bring with him such an atmosphere of cool pleasant strength. 'I have slain so much since the first of July that I can slay no more. I am not like other men. The Nimrod in me is easily gorged, and goes to sleep after a while. So this is Burwood?
'You are angry, he said, 'because I make comparisons. You are wholly on a wrong scent. I never saw a scene in the world that pleased me half as much as this bare valley, that gray roof' and he pointed to Burwood among its trees-'and this knoll of rocky ground. His look traveled back to her, and her eyes sank beneath it. He threw himself down on the short grass beside her.
But as usual she was unapproachable about her own affairs, and the state of her mind could only be somewhat dolefully gathered from the fact that she was much less unwilling to go back to Burwood this summer than had ever been known before. Meanwhile, Mr. Flaxman left certain other people in no doubt as to his intentions.
He went out with his son and lanterns, intending to ask the old shepherd at the Bridge Farm to help them in their expedition to find and fold the sheep. Meanwhile, in the little sitting-room at Burwood Catherine Elsmere and Mary were sitting, the one with her book, the other with her needlework, while the snow and wind outside beat on the little house.
Rose at last was safely settled in her longed-for London, and an artistic company, of the sort her soul loved, was coming to tea with her. Of Rose's summer at Burwood very little need be said. She was conscious that she had not borne it very well. She had been off-hand with Mrs. Thornburgh, and had enjoyed one or two open skirmishes with Mrs. Seaton.
She had asked them, however; and with a pleasing sense of conspiracy they complied. It was late on Thursday afternoon when Mrs. Thornburgh, finding the Burwood front door open, made her unchallenged way into the hall, and after an unanswered knock at the drawing-room door, opened it and peered in to see who might be there. 'May I come in? Mrs.
We could still be some months of the year at Burwood. Now she had said it out. But there was something else surely goading the girl than mere intolerance of the family tradition. The hesitancy, the moral doubt of her conversation with Langham, seemed to have vanished wholly in a kind of acrid self-assertion. Catherine felt a shock sweep through her.
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