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"I was thinking," he went on slowly, "about Mad about Lady Croston." "Oh!" "I went to see her this afternoon, and I think, I hope, that I am going to marry her." If Bottles expected that this great news would be received by his elder brother as such news ought to be received with congratulatory rejoicing he was destined to be disappointed.
Of all the worthless women that I know, I think Madeline Croston is the most worthless. Look how she treated you." "Eustace," broke in his brother almost sharply, "if you don't mind, I wish you would not talk of her like that to me. I can't in short, I don't like it." Sir Eustace's eyeglass dropped out of Sir Eustace's eye he had opened it so wide to stare at his brother.
You'll find the cut over Croston Heath shorter than the road we've come by.
Preston once, that evening when you put me down to walk over Croston Heath, and there was another person with him. I met him a second time and that time by appointment nobody but our two selves, in the Towers' Park. That is all. Papa, you must trust me. I cannot explain more. You must trust me indeed.
"I hardly know how to tell the miserable story," went on the letter, "but as it must be told I suppose I had better begin from the beginning. A month ago I went with my father and my aunt to the Hunt Ball at Atherton, and there I met Sir Alfred Croston, a middle-aged gentleman, who danced with me several times.
Yet the desperate necessity of saying something forced itself upon him. "How do you do?" he ejaculated with a jerk. "It it's very cold, isn't it?" This remark was such an utter and ludicrous fiasco that Lady Croston could not choose but laugh a little. "I see," she said, "that you have not got over your shyness." "It is a long while since we met," he blurted out.
For a few minutes Lady Croston contemplated the possibility of existing on eighteen hundred a year, and what Chancery would give her as guardian of her children in a poky house somewhere down at Kensington. Soon she realised that the thing was not to be done. "Unless Sir Eustace will do something for him, it is very clear that we cannot be married," she said to herself with a sigh.
"Well, George," he said to his brother at breakfast, "so you are going to marry Lady Croston?" Bottles looked up surprised. "Yes, Eustace," he answered, "if she will marry me." Sir Eustace glanced at him. "I thought the affair was settled," he said. Bottles rubbed his big nose reflectively as he answered, "Well, no. I don't think that marriage was mentioned. But I suppose she means to marry me.
It lay behind the stump of the amputated cervix, in the culdesac of Douglas. The patient died of hemorrhage. Croston reports a case of Cesarean section on a primipara of twenty-four at full term, with the delivery of a double female monster weighing 12 1/2 pounds.
To get to Croston Heath, Molly had to go down a narrow lane overshadowed by trees, with picturesque old cottages dotted here and there on the steep sandy banks; and then there came a small wood, and then there was a brook to be crossed on a plank-bridge, and up the steeper fields on the opposite side were cut steps in the turfy path, which ended, she was on Croston Heath, a wide-stretching common skirted by labourers' dwellings, past which a near road to Hollingford lay.
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