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Sophia and I were agreeing that it is a long time since you had any of your friends about you." "Very few since your wedding company," observed Sophia. "We remember you had all your acquaintance in the winter, my dear. It was very proper, I am sure, all you did then: but it is now the middle of July, you know; and our neighbours if Deerbrook always expect to be invited twice a year."
Of course, he was asked when he arrived, and had to answer the question, and also the remarks which were made on the length of his absence, and on the expectations of everybody in Deerbrook that he would have visited the old place at Christmas or New Year. He was then pitied on account of the state of his mother's health.
Mrs Grey was sufficiently afraid of her neighbour to confine herself to negative rudeness. She did the most she dared in not looking at Mr Walcot, or asking him to sit down. He did not appear to miss her attentions, but seated himself beside her daughter, and offered remarks on the difference between Deerbrook and Cheltenham.
As for the monument, it never came off: though it was talked about for some thirty years. Mrs. Carlyle's one of the early and, despite complaints, cheerful time, the other later and, despite its resignation, from "the Valley of the Shadow" require no annotation, save in respect of Carlyle's own on Deerbrook.
In such a place as Deerbrook, and with a family of rivals' cousins incessantly before her eyes, to exercise her passions upon, she has ended in being " "What she is," said Margaret, as Hope stopped for a word. "Margaret is less surprised than you expected, is she not?" said Hester. "You did not suppose that she would sit and listen as she does to your analysis of Mrs Rowland.
You say there is no ring in Deerbrook. Not any sort of ring? My dear Miss Grey, if I cannot repair this sort of ring " Sophia was a good deal flurried. She begged he would think no more of the parasol; it was no manner of consequence. "Do not be too good to me," whispered he. "I trust. I know my duty better than to take you at your word.
But I suppose the little gipsy was laughing at us and all Deerbrook all the time; though she kept her gravity wonderfully." Philip was not disposed to throw any light on this part of the affair; and the gentlemen parted at the turnstile. After a few steps, Philip heard himself called.
'I longed inexpressibly, she says, 'for the liberty of fiction, while occasionally doubting whether I had the power to use that freedom as I could have done ten years before. The product of this new mental phase was Deerbrook, which was published in the spring of 1839. Deerbrook is a story of an English country village, its petty feuds, its gentilities, its chances and changes of fortune.
In the milliner's workroom there was a spirited conversation between Miss Nares and her assistant, on the past wedding dresses of Deerbrook, arising out of the topic of the day, the Miss Ibbotsons.
It was necessary that she should earn money; and she had an opportunity now of earning what she needed at Birmingham. The time was come when Morris must go. The family had their sorrow all to themselves that dismal evening; for not a soul in Deerbrook, except Maria, knew that Morris was going at all.
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