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We haven't got any Princes down at Sutton to marry her; and I say it's a shame that she should go on living on her friends, a girl without a penny! when she might marry a respectable man, and have a home of her own." And then even Marion said that, if Vera could be brought to like Mr. Gisburne, it might possibly be happier for her to marry him.
"I thought it seemed to me by what I overheard," he said, hesitatingly, "that they were tormenting you persecuting you, perhaps into a marriage you do not wish for." "They have wished me to marry Mr. Gisburne," Vera admitted, in a low voice, rustling the fallen brown leaves with her foot, her eyes fixed on the ground.
It was in consequence of these and sundry subsequent stormy conversations that Mr. Herbert Pryme suddenly discovered that he had a very high regard and affection for Mr. Albert Gisburne, the vicar of Tripton, the same to whom once Vera's relations had wished to unite her. The connection between Mr.
"Because it is the right thing to do, I hope; and for the sake of doing good," she answered, sedately; and Sir John felt immediately reproved and rebuked, as though by the voice of an angelic being. "Tell me," he said, presently, "is it true that they want you to marry that parson Gisburne, of Tripton? Forgive me for asking." Vera coloured a little and laughed.
I do not think, however, that it can be what I feel." "My child, no union can be hallowed without love. Vera, you will not run into so great a danger?" he said anxiously. She looked up at him smiling. "I like him better than any one else, at all events. Better than Mr. Gisburne, for instance. And I think, I do really think, Eustace, it will be for my happiness." The vicar looked grave.
Gisburne need not say how delighted he would be, etc., etc. It is not too much to say that the friend jumped at it.
Who can resist Vera, when she looks gentle and humble, with that rare light in her dark eyes? "Vera, why don't you look like that at Mr. Gisburne?" he says, smiling. "Oh, Eustace! am I indeed a burden to you, as your mother says?" she exclaims, evasively. "No, no, my dear, but it seems hard for you here; a home of your own might be happier for you; and Gisburne is a good man."
Gisburne, with some diffidence, for Tripton Rectory was neither lively nor remarkably commodious, suggested how great the pleasure would be were his friend to run down to him for a couple of days or so; he had nothing, in truth, to offer him but a bachelor's quarters and a hearty welcome; there was next to no attraction beyond a pretty rural village and a choral daily service; but still, if he cared to come, Mr.
He was a precocious child; he did not quite understand, and yet he understood partly. He knew that his grandmother was scolding Vera, and telling her she was to go away and marry Mr. Gisburne. That Vera should go away! That, in itself, was sufficiently awful. Tommy adored Vera with all the intensity of his childish soul; that she should go away from him to Mr.
It seemed to be generally acknowledged by the Daintree family that if Vera would only consent to yield to the solicitations of the Reverend Albert Gisburne, and transfer herself to Tripton Rectory for life, it would be the simplest and easiest solution of a good many difficult problems concerning her. In point of fact, Vera Nevill was an incongruous element in the Daintree household.
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