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At four o'clock he presented himself at the house, and sent in a card to Beatrice. The Baxendales lived in St. Luke's, which we already know as the fashionable quarter of Dunfield. Their house stood by itself, with high walls about it, enclosing a garden; at the door were stone pillars, the lower half painted a dull red. It seemed the abode of solid people, not troubled with scruples of taste.
There had come to live, in one of the smaller houses upon the Heath, a family consisting of a middle-aged lady and her two daughters; their name was Hanmer, and their previous home had been in Hebsworth, the large manufacturing town which is a sort of metropolis to Dunfield and other smaller centres round about. Mr.
If the town were visited by an opera company, or by some dramatic star going the round of the provinces, the Cartwrights were sure to have prominent seats, and to exhibit themselves in becoming costume. If a bazaar were held, their ready-money was always forthcoming. At flower shows, galas, croquet parties, they challenged comparison with all who were not confessedly of the Dunfield elite.
He was not blind to the fact that the tramps might reassemble and rush the wagon, for these vagabonds would want both the peddler's money and what they would consider suitable revenge on the high school boys, for their part in the night's doings. However, the village of Dunfield was reached without further adventure.
His wife had two brothers; one had early gone to America, the other was thriving as a man of business in the town of Dunfield.
'If anyone should call this evening, she said, 'I cannot see them. You will say that I shall not be able to see anyone anyone, whoever it is till to-morrow morning.... At this same hour, Mrs. Baxendale, entering a shop in Dunfield, found Dagworthy making purchases. 'I shall not see you again for a long time, he said, as he was leaving. 'I start to-morrow on a long journey. 'Out of England?
In a week I suppose I shall be looking at some such cloud over Mont Blanc. And you, in Dunfield. 'No, there we have only mill-smoke. She smiled, and passed from the hollow to the road. Midway in breakfast next morning, at a moment when Mrs.
He came thus early because he thought it possible that Emily accompanied her father on his morning's walk into Dunfield; in which case he would follow at a distance, and find his opportunity as the girl returned.
Those elders who knew Dunfield best could not point to a single youth of fair endowments who looked forward to remaining in his native place. The tone of Dunfield society was not high. No wonder that Emily Hood had her doubts as to the result of study taken up by one of the Cartwrights.
Business did not thrive in Dunfield; yet there was more than ever need that it should, for to neglect Emily's education would be to deal cruelly with the child she would have nothing else to depend upon in her battle with the world. Poor Emily A feeble, overgrown child, needing fresh air, which she could not get, needing food of a better kind, just as unattainable.
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