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I asked her what people they had known and she said, Oh! very nice ones the Cavaliere Bombicci and the Contessa Altemura, with whom they had had a great friendship. Also English people the Churtons and the Goldies and Mrs. Stock-Stock, whom they had loved dearly; she was dead and gone, poor dear.
For some mysterious reason, or for no reason, Miss Starbrow resolved to close at once with the Churtons; and as if fearing that her mind might alter, she immediately tore up the other letters, although in some of them greater advantages had been held out, lower terms, and the companionship of girls of the same age as Fan.
Fan knew very well that she might not accept this offer; she knew that the Churtons were poor and burdened with debt; and that even if it had not been so, after taking up an independent position in opposition to Mrs. Churton, she had no right to remain a day beyond the time for which payment had been made. All this in a faltering way she tried to explain to her kind friend, and Mrs.
When I said that I meant a lady friend.... That is such a different kind of friendship. And and you could never be like one of the two friends I have lost." "Two, Miss Affleck! I did not know that you had had the misfortune to lose more than one." "The first was the lady I lived with in London before I went to the Churtons'." "Oh, yes, I see what you mean.
Fan did not quite understand all this; her mistress was always mocking at something, she knew; she only asked if it was really in the country where she would live. Miss Starbrow took up the letter and read the remaining portion, which contained a description of Wood End House the Churtons' residence and its surroundings.
He shook hands with the Churtons, and then with Fan, to whom he was introduced as Mr. Northcott. A large and rather somewhat rough- looking young man was Mr. Northcott, in a clerical coat, for he was curate of the church at Eyethorne.
First there had been a pleasant fortnight at Eyethorne; and during those days of close intimacy in the Churtons' small house and out of doors, the kindly feelings Mary and Constance had begun to experience towards each other in London had ripened to a friendship so close that Fan might very well have been made a little jealous at it if she had been that way predisposed.
Eyethorne took her some distance out of her way; and at the small country station where they alighted, which was two and a half miles from the village, she found from the time-table that her interview with the Churtons would have to be a short one, as there was only one train which would take her to Salisbury so as to arrive there at a reasonably early hour in the evening.
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