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"Miss Ellen Elmour, you know: she was " "Very true, I saw her marriage in the papers, I remember, some time ago," replied Miss Turnbull; "a year, if I'm not mistaken." "Two years ago, madam," said Mrs. Wynne. "Was it two? I dare say it might you know it is so impossible to keep a register of deaths and marriages in one's head. Pray, are you at all acquainted, Mrs.
Wynne, "to my certain knowledge, Miss Turnbull was, from her infancy, always the greatest favourite at Elmour Grove, the pupil of the good old gentleman, and the intimate friend of the daughter. During that odd Hodgkinson's lifetime, Almeria was always with Miss Ellen Elmour, who treated her quite like a sister.
Elmour would always permit her to consider him as her best friend, to whose advice she should have recourse in preference to that of any person upon earth;" recovering her assurance as she went on speaking, and recollecting some of the hints Lady Stock had given her, about the envy and jealousy of the Elmours, and of their scheme of monopolizing her fortune; she added a few commonplace phrases about respectability gratitude and great obligations then gave a glance at Lady Stock's handsome carriage, which was waiting at the door then asked for Miss Elmour and hoped she should not be so unfortunate as to miss seeing her before she left the country, as she came on purpose to take leave of her then looked at her watch: but all this was said and done with the awkwardness of a novice in the art of giving herself airs.
Elmour certainly was upon the spot, and a very fit guardian; but that if she meant to appear, as doubtless she would, in town, she would of course want another conductor. "To cut the matter short at once, my dear," said Lady Stock, "you must come to town with me next winter, and choose Sir Thomas for your guardian.
Elmour was a country gentleman of a moderate fortune, a respectable family, and of a most amiable character: between his daughter Ellen and Miss Turnbull there had subsisted an intimacy from their earliest childhood. The professions of this friendship had hitherto been much the warmest on the part of Almeria; the proofs were, perhaps, the strongest on the side of Ellen.
Come, here is a pen and ink and gilt paper; write to old Elmour this minute, and let me have you all to myself."
Ingoldsby, in order to leave the pair, whom she had destined to be friends, at perfect liberty to talk over "old times." Mrs. Henry Elmour naturally spoke of the happy days which they had spent together at Elmour Grove; but Miss Turnbull was so much occupied in clasping one of her diamond bracelets, that half of what was said to her seemed not to be heard, and the other half to create no interest.
Wynne she was delighted to hear she was so suitably married in point of understanding and temper, and all that sort of thing and besides, to a gentleman of a reasonable fortune, which she was happy to hear Mr. Charles Wynne possessed. Here she was interrupted in her speech the door opened, and the Duchess of A , Mr. and Mrs. Elmour, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wynne, were announced.
She was shown into the same parlour where she had but a few weeks before taken leave of Ellen. The maid rolled forward the great arm-chair, in which old Mr. Elmour had been seated; and as she moved it, a gold-headed cane fell to the ground.
I heard it said yesterday, that she had refused Sir Thomas Stock's eldest son, and my Lord Bradstone, and some others; now it is plain she would not marry merely for money or title. My nephew, who is so amiable and sensible, is just the man for her, and he had used to admire her very much in former times, when he met her at Elmour Grove." Mrs.
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