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At Valparaiso, he had a touch of fever; I went ashore to nurse him, to a merchant's, who took us in for love of our Scottish blood. Mr. Ernescliffe made a will there, and left it in his charge." "Do you think he made Dr. May my guardian?" "He asked me whether I thought he would dislike it, and I told him, no." "That's right!" cried Hector. "That's like dear old Alan!
"Margaret, see here." The doctor threw into her lap a letter, which made her cheeks light up. Mr. Ernescliffe wrote that his father's friend, Captain Gordon, having been appointed to the frigate Alcestis, had chosen him as one of his lieutenants, and offered a nomination as naval cadet for his brother.
"But all your school-fellows aren't like these? You have Hector Ernescliffe." "He's a nice fellow enough, but he is little, and down in the school. 'Twould be making a fourth form of myself to be after him.
Ernescliffe, as much as to say, "Now I have him, I don't want you." Norman alone was missing; but he was in his place at church among the boys. Again, in returning, he slipped out of the party, and was at home the first, and when this recurred in the afternoon Ethel began to understand his motive.
With the Christmas holidays, Hector Ernescliffe came from Eton, as to a home, and was received by Margaret as a sort of especial charge. It was pretty to see how he turned to her as something peculiarly his own, and would sit on a footstool by her, letting himself be drawn into confidence, and dwelling on his brother's past doings, and on future schemes for Maplewood.
She clasped her hands, absolutely bounded with transport, then grasped both Harry's hands, and then Norman's, her whole countenance radiant with joy and sympathy beyond expression. "Dear, dear Dr. May!" was her first exclamation. "Oh, how happy you must all be! And Margaret?" She looked up at Norman, and came nearer. "Is not Mr. Ernescliffe come?" she asked softly, and trembling.
She went to London for a week about it. 'Mrs. Rivers! Oh, how good! said Averil, flushing with surprise; then raising herself, as her coffee was brought in a dainty little service, she exclaimed, 'And oh, if it were possible, I should say that was my dear old piano! 'Yes, said Ethel, 'we thought you would like it; and Hector Ernescliffe gave Mrs. Wright a new one for it.
"Was it not that we were taught to-day what is enduring, and gives true permanence and blessedness to such to what there was between Ernescliffe and Margaret?" Her dewy eyes, and face of deep emotion, owned that he had interpreted her thought. "Theirs would, indeed, be a disheartening example," he said, "if it did not show the strength and peace that distance, sickness, death, cannot destroy."
May, in a voice above the tumult, was telling "Maggie," as he always called his wife, some piece of news about Mr. Rivers, who had bought Abbotstoke Grange; and Alan Ernescliffe, in much lower tones, saying to Margaret how he delighted in the sight of these home scenes, and this free household mirth.
Tom looked unutterable things at Ethel, who replied with a glance between diversion and dismay. 'Who is the lady? said Blanche. 'She assaulted me in the street with inquiries and congratulations about Harry, declaring she had known me as a child, a thing I particularly dislike: and Mrs. Ernescliffe looked like a ruffled goldfinch.
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