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Updated: June 17, 2025
She wants to write important letters. You sit still." And Irene went off to intercept the Miss Abercrombie her father had married all those years ago instead of Gwen's mother. She does not come much into this story, but its reader may be interested to know that she was an enthusiastic Abolitionist, and a friend of the Duchess of Sutherland.
Gwen's absorbing letter was from Irene, incorporating dictation from Adrian. The writer had found the accepted Official form: "I am to say," convenient in practice. Thus, for instance, "I am to say that he is not counting the hours till your return, as it seems to him that the total, when reached, will be of no use to him or anyone else.
I only wanted just to tell you something that the dear old Admiral has just told me." She sat down in her favourite position on the arm of his chair, her arm about his neck. Her eyes were shining. Carey looked up at her. "Well?" he said. "Has he plucked up courage at last to ask for what he wants?" "Yes; he actually has." There was a purr of content in Gwen's voice.
However, with Miss Darrow's permission, I shall go back to the starting point and begin all over again." "You are making me your debtor," Gwen replied slowly, "beyond my power ever to repay you." "It is in the hope that no payment may ever be demanded of you," he rejoined, "that I am busying myself in your affairs." The colour sprang to Gwen's cheeks, but she only replied by a grateful glance.
I could see the pale face, with its golden aureole, light up and glow, as they sat before the window while Lady Charlotte would tell her how Gwen's Canyon looked to-day and how in her own bleak canyon there was the sign of flowers. The building of the Swan Creek Church made a sensation in the country, and all the more that Bronco Bill was in command.
Gwen's last letter said we might expect a descent from her mamma. But I had no idea she was going to be so prompt." "She sent over to tell us, this morning. They took the letter up to your mother. I had gone over to the Hanger, to prevent Akers cutting down a tree. Man's a fool! I rather got let in for seeing her ladyship. Your mother arranged it." "I didn't hear of it. I should have stopped.
"Isn't it funny, this whim of Gwen's, about the old lady you carried upstairs?" "What whim of Gwen's?" "Oh, don't you know. Of course you don't! Gwen's fallen in love with her, and means to take her to the Towers with her when she goes back." "Very nice for the old girl. What's she doing that for?" "It's an idea of hers. However, there is some reason in it.
Old Maisie said again: "The darling children!" and kept on looking at the letter. Gwen's satisfaction at this was to be dashed slightly. For she found herself asked, to her surprise, "Who is Granny Marrowbone?" She replied: "Of course Dave wants his other Granny, from the country." She waited for an assent, but none came.
"Suppose, my dear, I don't get better, will Dave and Dolly come all the same; for Phoebe and my Ruth, the same as if I was here?" It was a sore tax on the steadiness of Gwen's voice, but she managed her assent. Yes even in the improbable event of old Maisie's non-recovery, Dave and Dolly should visit Granny Marrable.
To Gwen's thought, the miraculous news that had been broken to her so suddenly might easily have prostrated many a younger person, even without that mysterious unknown factor, the twinship, the force of which could only be estimated by the two concerned.
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