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Muriel endeavored to render herself an agreeable companion during the remainder of the drive; but her guardian, despite his efforts to become interested in her conversation, was evidently distrait, and both felt relieved when they reached Grassmere, where Miss Jane and the governess welcomed their return. Dr.
The old farmer sat open-mouthed, transfixed with interest, listening to his friend's clear, intelligent and masterly descriptions of this wonderful land. At last the clock struck nine; he started up in astonishment. "I shall get a scolding if I stay later," said he, and off he went to Grassmere. "Have you nothing else to say to me?" asked Meadows, as the farmer put his foot in the stirrup.
I wish I could have stopped her, but it was too late. I heard her clear voice suddenly exclaiming from easy speaking distance, "How do you do, Mrs. Sewall." "Ah! how do you do!" the lady condescended to reply. There was chilliness in the voice. Edith continued. "We're so delighted," she went on bravely, "to have Grassmere occupied again.
I don't know what to do, I'm sure." "Stay at home and till the land," replied Isaac, somewhat dryly. "I will go to Grassmere Farm." "You going to leave us, Mr. Eden, and going to live in a jail? Oh! Mr. Eden, I can't bear to think of it. You to be cooped up there among thieves and rogues, and perhaps murderers?" "They have the more need of me."
Here she built a small but tasteful cottage orné on the spot where her father had died, and here, with Jessie and Stanley, she proposed to spend her winters; while Mark and Joel were placed at the "Grassmere Farm," a mile distant, and entrusted with its management until the younger children should attain their majority. Too proud to accept the home which Dr.
It needed but a look at Susan Merton, as she sat moaning and quivering from head to foot in George's kitchen, to see that she was in no condition to walk back to Grassmere Farm to-night. So as she refused almost violently refused to stay at "The Grove," William harnessed one of the farm-horses to a cart and took her home round by the road.
"Now, Crawley, go and get some sleep. A cold bath for me and then on horseback. I must breakfast at Grassmere." "Great man, sir! great man! You will beat them yet, sir. You have beat Mr. Levi. Here we are in his house; and he driven away to lay his sly old bones at the Antipodes. Ha! ha! ha!"
What! had she shut herself from the world, and put on mourning and been seen in mourning for one who was not dead, but well and happy and married to another! An agony of shame rushed over the wronged, insulted, humiliated beauty. She longed to fly from the world. She asked her father to leave Grassmere and go to some other farm a hundred miles away.
"A pair of friends, though I was young, And he was seventy-four." From the rear of his court-yard he showed me Rydal Water, a little lake about a mile long, the beautiful church, and beyond it, Grassmere, and still further beyond, Helvelyn, the mountain-king with a retinue of a hundred hills.
Through Keswick he had passed in the middle of the night, taking on the post-horses which he had brought with him from Grassmere, so that no one in the town should see him and his companion. But it was soon known that he was there, and known also that he had a companion. For months he resided thus, and no one saw him but the domestics who waited upon him.