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It would be a great fall in a worldly point of view, from the Allington Small House to an abode in some little street of Guestwick. At Allington they had been county people, raised to a level with their own squire and other squires by the circumstance of their residence; but at Guestwick they would be small even among the people of the town.
I shall perhaps best describe a little incident that had occurred in Burton Crescent during the absence of our friend Eames, and the manner in which things were going on in that locality, by giving at length two letters which Johnny received by post at Guestwick on the morning after Mrs Dale's party. One was from his friend Cradell, and the other from the devoted Amelia.
He was got by Lambkin, you know." "Lambkin," said Johnny, who had not as yet been able to learn much about the Guestwick stock. "Yes, Lambkin. The bull that we had the trouble with. He has just got his sire's back and fore-quarters. Don't you see?" "I daresay," said Johnny, who looked very hard, but could not see.
Peter's, Northgate, Guestwick; the fault of which little advertisement was this, that as none of the readers of the paper had patience to get beyond the Reverend John Joseph Jones, the fact of Bell's marriage with Dr Crofts was not disseminated as widely as might have been wished. The marriage went off very nicely.
But the matter was going on, and he knew it. Dr Crofts was already in treaty on their behalf for a small furnished house at Guestwick. The squire was very sad about it, very sad indeed.
"Did you hear that young Eames is staying at Guestwick Manor?" As these were the first words which the squire spoke to Mrs Dale as they walked together up to the Great House, after church, on Christmas Day, it was clear enough that the tidings of Johnny's visit, when told to him, had made some impression. "At Guestwick Manor!" said Mrs Dale. "Dear me! Do you hear that, Bell?
If you will tell him that from me, it is all that I will ask you to do." "But you will see him yourself?" "No, mother; not till I have been to Allington. Then I will see him again or not, just as he pleases. I shall stop at Guestwick, and will write to you a line from thence.
"This is Allington," said the squire; and as he spoke, Lily Dale and Grace Crawley turned a corner from the Guestwick road and came close upon them. "Well, girls, I did not expect to see you," said the squire; "your mamma told me you wouldn't be back till it was nearly dark, Lily." "We have come back earlier than we intended," said Lily.
He walked off by himself across Guestwick Common, and through the woods of Guestwick Manor, up by the big avenue of elms in Lord De Guest's park, trying to resolve how he might rescue himself from this scrape.
He lets her have that house because he is anxious that the Dales should seem to be respectable before the world; and she lives in it, because she thinks it better for us that she should do so. If I had my way, she should leave it to-morrow or, at any rate, as soon as Lily is married. I would much sooner go into Guestwick, and live as the Eames do." "I think you are ungrateful, Bell."
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