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We must respect your wish to remain here, though the thought will make me unhappy to-night, said the kind woman. 'You will promise to come to us immediately all is over? 'If you still wish it; only there is poor Walter. It will be so dreadful for me to leave him quite alone. Mrs. Fordyce could not restrain a smile. The child-heart still dwelt in Gladys, though she was almost a woman grown.
Fordyce this morning, said the little spinster, with the most unsophisticated candour, 'and really, from it one might think your new protégée quite an objectionable person. Gladys looked distinctly annoyed. She had a very sweet disposition, but was a trifle touchy regarding her own independence. Sundry rather sharp passages which had occurred between Mrs.
And here he was sleeping in her castle not she sleeping in his! And he was conforming to her lead not she following his. And the only thing for a gentleman to do under the complicated circumstances was to speedily divorce her according to the Scottish law and let her marry his friend, Henry Fordyce give them his blessing and lend them Arranstoun for the honeymoon!
The warmth of the greeting accorded to her made the lovely colour flush high in her cheek, and her eyes sparkle with added brilliance. 'Yes, I came up only at noon. I have been in the city since then, she replied, in answer to many questions. 'Oh, how do you do, Mr. Fordyce? I did not expect to see you. 'Nor I you, said George Fordyce impressively.
'But can you tell me what is your objection? 'I want to come here and live just as soon as it is possible, said Gladys, looking round the dismantled house with wistful, affectionate eyes. 'I want to have my very own house; I can never feel that it is mine until I live in it; and I have many plans. 'Would you mind telling me some of them? said Mrs. Fordyce rather anxiously.
She wished she knew how much or how little George Fordyce was to Gladys Graham, yet dared not to ask the question. But so great was the absorbing desire of Gladys to find means of communication with Liz that she would not let the matter rest.
Mine told me himself that Frank Fordyce was so much displeased with Griffith's conduct that he had declared that the engagement could not continue with his consent. This from good-natured, tender-hearted Parson Frank! I cried out hotly that 'those Lesters' had done this. They had always been set against us, and any one could talk over Mr. Frank. My father shook his head.
At least so my sister tells me, though at the time all the difference I saw was that Miss Fordyce had the most originality, and unconsciously became the leader. The bookroom was given up to us, and there in the morning we drew, worked, read, copied and practised music, wrote out extracts, and delivered our youthful minds to one another on all imaginable topics from 'slea silk to predestination.
While you were bear-fighting with the Twins after lunch, Adrian, I said to him: 'Pity me, Mr Fordyce!
In one of our varieties of Waverley discussions the crystal hardness and inexperienced intolerance of youth made Miss Fordyce declare that had she been Edith Plantagenet, she would never, never have forgiven Sir Kenneth. 'How could she, when he had forsaken the king's banner? Unpardonable!
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