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On coming home, she met him on the stairs; and he spoke with a sad softness and tone of pardon that alarmed her so much, that she hastened to ask her mother whether Louis had really avowed an attachment. 'Oh no, said Mrs. Ponsonby; 'he has written a very right-minded letter, on the whole, poor boy! though he is sure the Conways have only to be known to be appreciated. Rather too true!
Though warmly invited by the Conways, and fondly entreated by her grandson, she shook her head, and said she was past those things, and that the old mother always stayed at home to cook the wedding dinner.
Frank and Charlie, Edna's brothers, were almost too large for Uncle Justus' school, where only little fellows went, so they went elsewhere to the school which Roger and Steve Porter attended. It was Cousin Ben's first year at college, and he was housed at the Conways, his mother being an elder sister of Edna's mother.
"If I had but left him then, this hour would never have come to me; but I listened, and when he told me that a handsome, healthy child would be more acceptable to the Conways than a weakly, fretful one when he said that Hagar Warren's grandchild had far better be a lady than a drudge that no one would ever know it, for none had noticed either I did it, Maggie Miller; I took you from the pine-board cradle where you lay I dressed you in the other baby's clothes I laid you on her pillow I wrapped her in your coarse white frock I said that she was mine, and Margaret oh, Heaven! can't you see it?
The plaything of the whole house, she was greatly petted by the servants, who vied with each other in tracing points of resemblance between her and the Conways; while the grandmother prided herself particularly on the arched eyebrows and finely cut upper lip, which she said were sure marks of high blood, and never found in the lower ranks!
"Now, look aheah it's this way," went on Jud "you're gettin' along in age and you need res'. You've been wuckin' too hard. I tell you, Majah, sah, you're dead game no other man I know of would have stood up under the burdens you've had on yo' shoulders." The Major drew himself up: "That's a family trait of the Conways, suh." "Wal, it's time for you to res' awhile.
"Of course, they are, suh," snapped their father "they are Conways." "Ever think of it, sah," went on Jud, "that they could make you a livin' in the mill?" Conway was silent. In truth, he had thought of that very thing. To-day, however, he was nerved and desperate, being more besotted than usual.
Ponsonby observed a tremulousneas in Mary's hand, and a willingness to keep her face turned away; and, on more minute glances, a swelling of the eyelids was detected. 'My dear, said Mrs. Ponsonby, 'you should take a walk to-day. Pray go out with the Conways. 'Oh no, thank you, mamma. 'If the cousins come in from Ormersfield, I shall tell Louis to take you to look at his farm.
In the mean time, there are but dark news from the Havannah; the Gazette, who would not fib for the world, says, we have lost but four officers; the World, who is not quite so scrupulous, says, our loss is heavy. But what shocking notice to those who have Harry Conways there! The Gazette breaks off with saying, that they were to storm the next day!
Each lady then proceeded to unfold a pink sheet of note-paper, containing an original copy of verses, each labelled, 'On a hair of . Then came a scented shining note, requesting to be informed whether the right construction had been put on some words that had dropped from the Miss Conways, and if it were true that the reverend and respected Mr. F. Dynevor had come into a large fortune.
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