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Updated: June 26, 2025
All day long, as I've been walking alone on those high grey moors at Dunbude, I've been thinking of you; and at last I made up my mind that I MUST come and ask you to be my wife some time whenever we could afford to marry.
Walsh, is going to leave us at Christmas, and she thinks it just possible that one of your two brothers at Oxford might like to come down to Dunbude and give us their kind aid in taking charge of Lynmouth. He's a dreadful pickle, as you know; but we are very anxious to get somebody to look after him in whom mamma can have perfect confidence.
I shall choose for myself, and marry a man for the worth that's in him, I assure you it's a positive fact, I've been proposed to by no fewer than six assorted Algies and Berties and Monties in a single season; besides which some of them follow me even down here to Dunbude. Papa and mamma are dreadfully angry because I won't have any of them: but I won't.
'Well, you know, she is sure to be so handsome, and so accomplished, and to have had so many advantages that I have never had. I was afraid I should seem so very simple to you after Lady Hilda. 'Oh, Edie! cried Ernest, stopping a moment, and gazing at the little light airy figure. 'I only wish you could know the difference. Coming from Dunbude to Calcombe is like coming from darkness into light.
Their politics are just a selfish calculation of their own prospects land, Church, capital, privilege. From the time I went to Dunbude to this day, I've never heard a single word about any higher thought of any sort I don't mean only about the troubles or the aspirations of other people, but even about books, about science, about art, about natural beauty.
And so, though most young men would have found the Dunbude tutorship the very acme of their wishes plenty of amusements and nothing to do for them Ernest Le Breton found it to the last degree irksome and unsatisfactory.
Miss Merivale was a rector's daughter an orphan, and a very nice girl in her way; and Ernest had often thought to himself while he lived at the Exmoors', 'With just the slightest turn of Fortune's wheel that might be my own Edie. Now, for himself he had never felt any sense of social inferiority at all at Dunbude; he was an Oxford man, and by the ordinary courtesy of English society he was always treated accordingly in every way as an equal.
'No; he's down in Devonshire, my brother Ernest writes me. 'What, at Dunbude? What's Oswald doing there? 'Oh dear no; not at Dunbude: the peerage hasn't yet adopted him at a place called Calcombe Pomeroy, where it seems he lives. Ernest has gone down there from Exmoor for a fortnight's holiday.
Do you remember, I met you twice last year, once at the Dolburys', and once somewhere else; and I thought you'd be a very good sort of person for Dunbude, you know, and about as much use to Lynmouth as anybody could be, which isn't saying much, of course, for he's a dreadful pickle. But you remember him at Marlborough, of course; he was only a little fellow then, but still a pickle.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places. From Calcombe Pomeroy Ernest had returned, not to Dunbude, but to meet the Exmoor party in London. There he had managed somehow he hardly knew how himself to live through a whole season without an explosion in his employer's family.
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