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Updated: May 31, 2025
Mr Robins Village Choirs Edith An Elopement A Father's Sorrow An Unhappy Pair The Wanderer's Return Father! A Daughter's Entreater No Favourable Answer A Sleepless Pillow The organist of Downside, Mr Robins, lived in a little house close to the church.
It was a glorious day; they enjoyed all Fernhurst's privileges with its restrictions removed, and when the notes of Land of Hope and Glory proclaimed that the corps was marching up Cheap Street, they considered the return to realities to be almost an intrusion on their isolated peace. In the last week of the term the Colts played Downside, and Gordon was still young enough to play for them.
I'm more ill than you think I am I should have no strength to struggle with her." Not again that day did Mike succeed in speaking alone with Lily, and the next day she and her mother and Major Downside, her uncle, went to spend the day with some friends who had a villa in the environs of the town. The day after he met mother and daughter out walking in the morning.
It then occurred to me that in every case where I had observed a clump of elder bushes on the bare downside, it grew upon a village or collection of rabbit burrows, and it is probable that in every case the clump owed its existence to the wheatears who had dropped the seed about their nesting-place.
"We had no design when we expressed our pleasure at seeing Harry at Downside, nor did we think of his falling in love with our young friend." "May I ask whether she is a relation, or to what family she belongs?" asked Sir Ralph, abruptly. "She is no relation, though we love her as one," said Miss Jane. "Has not your son told you her history?" "Not a word; he declined doing so," said the baronet.
She did her utmost to comfort her cousins, while she faithfully delivered the Gospel message to poor Algernon, wondering that he should be so utterly ignorant of its tenor and object. Lady Castleton again wrote to Sir Ralph, but when he arrived Algernon had ceased to breathe. Miss Jane had returned to Downside in the morning. Brave as she was, she did not wish to encounter Sir Ralph.
Some of the girls had left school and gone to service; some of the lads had developed into hobbledehoys and came to church with walking-sticks and well-oiled hair; one or two of the old folks had died; one or two more white-headed babies crawled about the cottage floors; but otherwise Downside was just the same as it had been five years before, when, one June morning, a self-willed girl had softly opened the door under the honeysuckle porch and stepped out into the dewy garden, where the birds were calling such a glad good-morning as she passed to join her lover in the lane.
She, at all events, had promised to take Maiden May up to them, and Adam could not prohibit her doing so. On Miss Pemberton's return to Downside, while seated at their tea-table, Miss Mary gave her a description of her young visitor of the morning, and told her of the proposal she was anxious to make about her. "I should just like to see the little girl," said Miss Pemberton.
The smuggler folded his arms and stood watching the young man as he trudged sturdily over the sands. "I will win him over yet, though his father may be too obstinate to move," he muttered to himself as he made his way up the cliff to the mill. Jacob carried his basket of shells to Downside and deposited them with Susan, for the ladies were at tea, and they did not hear of his coming.
"He would be at Downside the next day, or in two days at furthest. He had met with many adventures. He knew that she must have been anxious at his not writing, but it had been impossible. He had been wrecked, and lived long on a desert island, and finally made his escape on board a slow sailing merchantman, which, after running many risks of capture, had safely reached England.
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