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Updated: September 14, 2025
Lucy met me with two letters; the first my own unopened; and the second, this: "'I have left you. You were good to me, but now it is no use. "She told me that a boy had brought a letter for my wife the day before, from a young gentleman in a boat. When Lucy delivered it she asked, 'Who is he, Miss Eilie? What will Mr.
It was like Paradise in that inn though the commissariat, I am bound to say, was limited. The sweethriar grew round our bedroom windows; when the breeze blew the leaves across the opening it was like a bath of perfume. Eilie grew as brown as a gipsy while we were there. I don't think any man could have loved her more than I did.
Well, sir, one day in August, very hot weather, he proposed a run into the country, and who should meet us on the platform when we arrived but Eilie, in a blue sun-bonnet and frock-flax blue, her favourite colour. I was angry with Dalton for not telling me that we should see her; my clothes were not quite my hair wanted cutting.
"As I said, she came back to London to her little room, and in the evenings was always ready with our tea. You mustn't suppose she was housewifely; there is something in me that never admired housewifeliness a fine quality, no doubt, still " He sighed. "No," he resumed, "Eilie was not like that, for she was never quite the same two days together.
We spent many afternoons there, trespassing in the orchard Eilie was fond of trespassing; if there were a long way round across somebody else's property, she would always take it. We spent our last afternoon in that orchard, lying in the long grass. I was reading Childe Harold for the first time a wonderful, a memorable poem!
Can there be anything more odious," he burst out, "than such a self-complacent blindness? There are people who say, 'Poor man, he had such faith! Faith, sir! Conceit! I was a fool in this world one pays for folly.... "The summer came; and one Saturday in early June, Eilie, I, and Francis I won't tell you his other name went riding.
While we were eating our supper a hare came to our clearing a big fellow how surprised he looked! 'The tall hare, Eilie called him. After that we sat by the ashes and watched the shadows, till at last she roamed away from me. The time went very slowly; I got up to look for her. It was past sundown. I called and called.
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