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I can't quite understand how the matter rests.... Ah! Edward, too, who started with such promise; that he should now have become such a careless fellow not a month in one place. There, Mr. Graye, I know what it is mainly owing to. If it hadn't been for that heart affair, he might have done but the less said about him the better.
The carrier paid his dues, came up to Edward, and spoke ten words in a confidential whisper: then sprang upon the shafts of his vehicle, gave a clinching nod of significance to Springrove, and rattled away. Edward turned pale with the intelligence. His first thought was, 'Bring her home! The next did Owen Graye know what had been discovered?
'To get him here without letting him know that I have any other object than that of getting a useful man that's the difficulty and that I think I can master. She rang for the new maid, a placid woman of forty with a few grey hairs. 'Ask Miss Graye if she can come to me. Cytherea was not far off, and came in. 'Do you know anything about architects and surveyors? said Miss Aldclyffe abruptly.
'I don't refer to the houses you have of course the best of all rights to speak of that matter; but you, a stranger to me comparatively, have no right at all to volunteer opinions and wishes upon a very delicate subject, which concerns no living beings but Miss Graye, Miss Hinton, and myself.
She begged him not to follow her, and the most bewildering point was that her father and mother appeared, from the tone of a letter Graye received from them, as vexed and sad as he at this sudden renunciation. One thing was plain: without admitting her reason as valid, they knew what that reason was, and did not intend to reveal it.
Graye did not object to occupy such an inferior position as these duties would entail, and to accept weekly wages which to one with his expectations would be considered merely nominal, the post would give him an opportunity for learning a few more details of the profession.
Gradfield stated that he was not in want of a pupil who would serve the remainder of his time on the terms Mr. Graye mentioned. But he would just add one remark. He chanced to be in want of some young man in his office for a short time only, probably about two months to trace drawings, and attend to other subsidiary work of the kind. If Mr.
But it contained absolutely nothing more. 'Disappointed again, he said, flinging down the box, the bit of paper, and the withered twig that had lain with it. Yet valueless as the new acquisition was, on second thoughts he considered that it would be worth while to make good the statement in his late note to Graye that he had sent everything the box contained except the sewing-thread.
Young Graye concluded that his Cytherea had forgotten him and his love. But he could not forget her. Eight years later, feeling lonely and depressed a man without relatives, with many acquaintances but no friends Ambrose Graye met a young lady of a different kind, fairly endowed with money and good gifts.
They had reached the Cove, and had walked landward for nearly an hour over the hill which rose beside the strand, when Graye recollected that two or three miles yet further inland from this spot was an interesting mediaeval ruin.
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