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Updated: June 19, 2025
Often a square foot of ground presented me with enough of beauty and variety in colour and form to criticise and contemplate for a full hour. My human interests were not extensive. Sometimes the Enderley villagers, or the Tod children, who were a grade above these, and decidedly "respectable," would appear and have a game of play at the foot of the slope, their laughter rising up to where I lay.
"Nevertheless, you must have a change. Doctor Jessop insists upon it. Here have I been beating up and down the country for a week past 'Adventures in Search of a Country Residence' and, do you know, I think I've found one at last. Shouldn't you like to hear about it?" I assented, to please him. "Such a nice, nice place, on the slope of Enderley Hill.
However, this feeling shortly passed away, as must needs be; and we all three began to converse together. While he talked, something of the old "Anselmo" came back into Lord Ravenel's face: especially when John asked him if he would drive over with us to Enderley. "Enderley how strange the word sounds! yet I should like to see the place again. Poor old Enderley!"
John laughed merrily. "No, as I told you before, I like Enderley Hill. I can't tell why, but I like it. It seems as if I had known the place before. I feel as if we were going to have great happiness here." And as he spoke, his unwonted buoyancy softened into a quietness of manner more befitting that word "happiness." Strange word! hardly in my vocabulary.
"I think so, unless you will consent to let me go alone to Enderley." She shook her head. "What, with those troubles at the mills? How can you speak so lightly?" "Not lightly, love only cheerfully. The troubles must be borne; why not bear them with as good heart as possible? They cannot last let Lord Luxmore do what he will.
These, when John's fortunes grew rapidly as many another fortune grew, in the beginning of the thirty years' peace, when unknown, petty manufacturers first rose into merchant princes and cotton lords these gentry made a perceptible distinction, often amusing enough to us, between John Halifax, the tanner of Norton Bury, and Mr. Halifax, the prosperous owner of Enderley Mills.
"Perhaps, as the reward of forbearance, the money will come some day when we least expect it; then John shall have his heart's desire, and start the cloth-mills at Enderley." John smiled, half-sadly. Every man has a hobby this was his, and had been for fifteen years.
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