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Updated: May 25, 2025
There was something so frank, and at the same time so thoroughly courteous, about the old gentleman's address that Miss Stansfield could not be offended with him; while his age and bearing prevented her feeling that there was any impropriety in her permitting him to be her companion on the public road till she should reach the drive-gate leading up to her home.
The voice was the coachman's, and came apparently from somewhere near the drive-gate, which was about a couple of hundred yards from the front door of the house. The evening had been dark and stormy; and it was in a lull of the tempest that the ominous sounds of distress reached the ears of the inmates of Flixworth Manor.
I've had no coming-out like other girls." "That's why you are so much jollier than most of them," said Paul, betrayed into a compliment. From the moment they entered the drive-gate, and began the ascent to the house, Sally looked about her with eager interest, breaking into exclamations of delight as each step revealed some fresh beauty to her eyes.
In a few moments all was bustle and excitement lights flashing; feet hurrying; voices shouting; and then a rush for the scene of danger and trouble. Outside the grounds in which the Manor-house stood were extensive grass lands on either side of the public road. In the field nearest to the drive-gate, and on the left as you entered it, was a deep and precipitous chalk-pit, now disused.
Gyp was sleeping when he stole up at ten o'clock. He, too, turned in, and slept like a child. Returning the next afternoon from the first ride for several days, Winton passed the station fly rolling away from the drive-gate with the light-hearted disillusionment peculiar to quite empty vehicles. The sight of a fur coat and broad-brimmed hat in the hall warned him of what had happened. "Mr.
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