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Updated: May 15, 2025
Then came a letter with the Amber Guiting post-mark, and in a handwriting he did not know a funny little, clear, square handwriting with character in every stroke. He opened it and read: "DEAR MR. LEDGARD, "It is just possible you may have heard of me from Mrs.
Where are you going? May I get in here?" "Aren't you travelling first?" "Not a bit of it. Sure you don't mind? How jolly to have met you!" Miles looked so smiling, so big and well turned out, and pleased with life, that Meg's severe expression relaxed somewhat. "I suppose," she said, "you're just going to the junction. But why come to Guiting Green?"
In fact, he wrote almost as much about the habits of trout as about wrens. James Ross, the gallant who carried off the second Tranquil, had been fishing at Amber Guiting when he first saw her. Anthony's father fished and so did Anthony; and Jan, herself, could throw a fly quite prettily.
This proved not a bad investment, for they had let it every winter since to Colonel Walcote for the hunting season, as three packs of hounds met within easy reach of it; and although the stabling accommodation at Wren's End was but small, plenty of loose boxes were always obtainable from Farmer Burgess quite near. Amber Guiting is a big village, almost a little town.
When Hugo reached the window of the ticket-office Tony heard something about Paddington. That decided him. Nothing would induce him to go to Paddington. He pushed his way among the crowd and ran for dear life up the stairs, and over the bridge to the other platform where the train for Amber Guiting was still waiting, lonely and deserted. He knew that train.
"He'd want to paint you now," Meg insisted obstinately. "I know the sort of person he liked to paint." "He never would paint people unless he did like them," Jan said, smiling as at some recollection. "Do you remember how he utterly refused to paint that rich Mr. Withells down at Amber Guiting?" "I remember," and Meg laughed. "He said Mr. Withells was puffy and stippled."
Jan seriously considered a barbed-wire entanglement for the outside edge of her staircase after that. While Meg rested in the hammock Jan spent a strenuous morning in Guiting Woods with the children and William.
Meanwhile, on that same Sunday morning, Captain Middleton, at Amber Guiting Manor, was trying to screw his courage up to the announcement that he did not intend to accompany his aunt and uncle to church. Lady Mary Walcote was his mother's only sister, and Mrs.
There were many "nice places" round about, and altogether the inhabitants of Amber Guiting prided themselves, with some reason, on the social and æsthetic advantages of their neighbourhood. Moreover, it is not quite three hours from Paddington. You catch the express from the junction. Notwithstanding all these agreeable circumstances, William Bloomsbury was very lonely and miserable.
The station at Amber Guiting is seldom crowded; it's on a shuttle line, and except on market-day there is but little passenger traffic. Therefore a small young lady with rather conspicuously red hair, a neat grey coat and skirt, a shady grey straw hat trimmed with white clover and green leaves, and a green parasol, was noticeable upon the platform out of all proportion to her size.
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