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But the result was that the young doctor one day informed himself, as he was riding back to Guestwick, that much of his happiness in this world would depend on his being able to marry Mrs Dale's eldest daughter.
Dr Crofts had now been practising in Guestwick nearly seven years, having settled himself in that town when he was twenty-three years old, and being at this period about thirty.
When Bernard should come to be the squire, then indeed there might be cordial relations between Guestwick Manor and Allington; unless, indeed, the earl's heir and the squire's heir should have some fresh cause of ill-will between themselves. They found Lady Julia sitting in her drawing-room alone, and introduced to her Mr Crosbie in due form.
Dr Crofts had been found to be away from Guestwick, and word had been sent on his behalf that he would be over at Allington early on the following morning. Mrs Dale had almost made up her mind that the malady of her favourite maid was not scarlatina, but had not on that account relaxed her order as to the absence of her daughters from the maid's bedside.
"Mary," he said, "I must insist upon getting to the bottom of this. As for your leaving the house, it is out of the question. Where can you be better off, or so well? As to going into Guestwick, what sort of life would there be for the girls? I put all that aside as out of the question; but I must know what has induced you to make such a proposition.
Of course I knew he would come, and I shall be very glad to see him." Then Mrs Dale went round to the other room, and admitted her visitor through the window of the drawing-room. "We are in terrible confusion, John, are we not? "And so you are really going to live in Guestwick?" "Well, it looks like it, does it not?
Can you tell me how soon I shall have a new pair of Balmoral boots because of this money? If that were brought home to me I think it would enliven my gratitude." The squire, as he rode back to Guestwick, fell again from that animation, which Mrs Dale had described, into his natural sombre mood.
Nothing on earth should keep her from the bedside of her betrothed. If she did not get an answer from her beloved John by return of post, she would be down with him at Guestwick by the express train. Here was a position for such a young man as John Eames!
"I suppose you haven't seen Bell yet?" "I only got to Guestwick yesterday afternoon," said he. "And it will be so nice our having Grace at the Small House; won't it? Uncle Christopher has quite taken a passion for Grace, so that I am hardly anybody now in the Allington world." "By-the-by," said Johnny, "I came down here with a friend of yours, Grace." "A friend of mine?" said Grace.
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