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He had seen the old mill his grandfather had built almost a hundred years before, and in the churchyard he had found the graves and read the inscriptions that recorded the virtues of certain dead and gone Carringtons. It had all seemed a very respectable link with the past.
In a moment Miss Chris's large figure appeared in the doorway, and she handed a brimming mint julep to the general. "I don't know what Eugie can be made of," she remarked. "Amos Burr was overseer for the Carringtons before he got that place of his own, and I remember just as well as if it were yesterday old Mr.
You thought mischievous was meant in Hannah's sense, when she complains of Master Reginald being very mischie-vi-ous. Ada now succeeded in saying, 'The Carringtons' governess called me Lady Ada. 'How could she bring herself to utter so horrid a sound? said Claude. 'Ada is more cock-a-hoop than ever now, said Reginald; 'she does not think Miss Weston good enough to speak to.
The men can bring the boat back to-night, and Major Carrington will send me home on a pillion to-morrow." "Have you forgotten that to-morrow is Sunday?" said the overseer severely, and with a new-born anxiety for the proper observance of the holy day. "Will you have the Colonel pay a fine for you?" "I will go to service with the Carringtons then, and come home on Monday," said the lady serenely.
Perhaps she was remembering all that had been good in him, perhaps all that had been evil in herself; her lips quivered, and her eyes filled. But it was hard to pity one who was at rest, hard for her with the world to face afresh that night, without a single friend. The Carringtons? Well, she would see; and now she had a very definite point upon which to consult Mr. Carrington.
The marriage took place almost at once, for the Captain's regiment was ordered on foreign service, and Evelyn went away to regions where it was not possible for Henrietta to visit her. But if she had lived in England, Henrietta would not have felt herself at liberty to go away for long. After she got home, she felt glad she had not extended her visit to the Carringtons, for Mrs.
'I think he has some scheme for this vacation, said Claude, 'and I suppose he means to crowd all the Beechcroft diversions of a whole summer into those few days. 'Emily, said Mr. Mohun, 'I wish him to know the Carringtons; invite them and the Westons to dinner on Tuesday. 'Oh don't! cried Reginald.
"Are you a a Broadway Don Juan, or are you a respectable lawyer with a glimmering sense of common decency and an intention to keep a social engagement at the Carringtons' to-day?" And Smith drew out his timepiece and flourished it furiously under Brown's handsome and sun-tanned nose.
Hold up some fingers, Brown, and let me guess how many you hold up, and if I guess wrong I'm home in bed asleep and the whole thing is off." Beekman Brown patted his friend on the shoulder. "You take a cab, Smithy, and go somewhere. And if I don't come go on alone to the Carringtons'.... You don't mind going on and fixing things up with the Carringtons, do you?"
The Carringtons had not been able quite to forgive the rejection of Herbert's suit, and since his death there had been a slight coolness between the two families, and the girls had seen much less of each other than in earlier days; their intercourse being confined to an occasional exchange of formal calls, except when they met at the house of some common acquaintance or friend.
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