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'Oh yes, you are right: we are a proud lot, he observed, as he rose to take leave. 'Well, Miss Garston, after Christmas is over, we shall hope to see you for an evening; but any afternoon you are free they will be glad to see you. Etta makes excellent tea. What a craze five-o'clock tea is with you women!
Good-bye, Miss Garston: we shall look for you soon after six. There was something wistful in her expression; it seemed as though she wanted me to come, and yet I was a complete stranger to her. I felt very reluctant to dine at Gladwyn, but that look overruled me. 'I will try to come early, was my answer, and then I drew back to let them pass.
"So far there doesn't seem to be much difficulty; they seem to go all right of their own accord," she said, after a few minutes. "They are a capital pair; but there is nothing to disturb them." For the rest of the way to Garston, De Burgh only spoke to give the lesson he had undertaken, and Katherine found herself growing interested and pleased.
'That is true, muttered Mr. Hamilton, and then he said, in a business-like tone, 'Now for the patient, Miss Garston'; and as he led the way across the narrow passage we could hear the hard, gasping cough of the sick woman. Peggy, with the baby still in her arms, was trying to stir a black, cindery fire, that was filling the room with smoke.
Tudor addressed me: before he had finished his sentence she had challenged the attention of the table. 'Giles, she said good-humouredly, 'do you know what Mr. Tudor said in the drawing-room just now, that it was the bounden duty of the Heathfield folk to spoil and make much of Miss Garston? Both Mr.
Garston, who came last, had floundered about for a few moments among the closing lines, giving vent to a few incoherent sputterings, and every one was impatiently awaiting the first tinkle of the bell. "Yes, Garston," said Mr. Rowlands, "that's certainly up to your usual form quite a brilliant display; I'll give you naught.
I devise and bequeath all my estate and effects, real and personal, which I may be possessed of or entitled to, unto my sister, Sarah Ellen Hanson, the wife of Matthew Hanson, of 37 Preston Street, Garston, Lancashire, England, absolutely, and failing her to any children she may have had by her marriage with Matthew Hanson, in equal shares.
I never heard him talk better than on this occasion: there were flashes of wit and brilliancy that surprised me: I was almost sorry when I reached the cottage. 'Good-night, Miss Garston, and thank you again for your deed of charity, he said quite heartily, and as though he meant it. Really, I never liked Mr. Hamilton so much before; but then he had never shown himself so genial.
'I do not think Miss Garston will take cold, Etta, and it is very pleasant here'; but, though Miss Darrell retreated from the window, I think we all felt as much constrained as though she had joined us, for not a word could escape her ears if she chose to listen. But this fact did not seem to daunt Lady Betty for long, for she soon began chattering volubly to us both.
Hamilton has gone to Brighton, or I would have sent Flossie in for him to attend to her. 'Will you let me see what I can do, Mrs. Maberley? I said, for I had recognised the pretty old lady at once. 'I am the village nurse, Miss Garston, and I think I can bind up poor Flossie's leg. 'Miss Garston! in quite a different voice; it seemed to have grown rather formal.
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