United States or Barbados ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Dutton in the very uttermost astonishment and bewilderment, and set Miss Headworth down in an easy-chair, where she recovered herself, under Mary's soothing care, enough to tell her story in spite of Nuttie's exclamations. 'Wait! wait, Nuttie! You mustn't burst in on them so! No, you need not be afraid. Don't be a silly child! He won't hurt her! Oh no! They are quite delighted to meet.
He is so excitable and vehement. 'Yes, said Miss Headworth. 'I don't understand the kind of thing. In my time a steady young clerk used to be contented after hours with playing at cricket in the summer, or learning the flute in the winter and a great nuisance it was sometimes, but now Gerard must get himself made a sort of half clergyman. 'A reader, suggested Mary. 'Minor orders.
'Then he comes with with favourable intentions, said Mary, putting as much admonition as she could into her voice. 'Oh! no doubt of that, said Miss Headworth, drawing herself together. 'He spoke of the long separation, said he had never been able to find her, till the strange chance of his nephew stumbling on her at Abbots Norton. 'That is possib probably true, said Mr. Dutton.
They wanted it, for they were shivering with anxiety. Canon Egremont came out to the front hall to meet them, and put his arms round Nuttie tenderly, saying, 'My poor dear child! then as he saw he had frightened them, 'No, no! She is alive conscious they say, only so very weak. Then with something of his usual urbane grace, he held out his hand, 'Miss Headworth, it is very good in you to come.
He shook the hands of mother and daughter heartily, promised to 'look after' Miss Headworth, and bore off in his train young Gerard, looking the picture of woe, and muttering 'I believe he has got it up on purpose; while mother and daughter thought it very odd, and rather unkind. 'And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare. Old Ballad.
'Perhaps if you heard of me then, said the latter, 'it was as Lady Margaret Kerr. 'Yes, said Miss Headworth, then pausing, she collected herself and said in an anxious voice, 'Do I understand that your ladyship is come to inquire for my niece, being aware of the circumstances. 'I only became aware of them yesterday, said Lady Kirkaldy.
The sound of the front door was heard, for the visitor had been watched away and Miss Headworth was returning to her own house to be there received with another fervent gush of happiness, much more trying to her, poor thing, than to Nuttie. There was evensong imminent, and the most needful act at the moment was to compose the harmonium-player sufficiently for her to take her part.
Egremont submitted, allowing that she had not asked for Nuttie since the morning, and then had smiled and squeezed his hand when he said she was coming with her aunt; but he walked up and down in direful restlessness, his whole mind apparently bent on extracting from Miss Headworth that she had been as ill or worse at Dieppe. Alas! when Mrs.
And while Miss Headworth, over her evening toilette, was coming to this resolution in one bedroom, Nuttie, in another, was standing aghast at her mother's agitation, and receiving a confession which filled her with astonishment.
'I was in Turkey at the time, and no particulars were given to me; but my nephew, Mark Egremont, your niece's old pupil, came to consult us, having just discovered among his uncle's papers evidence of the marriage, of which of course he had been ignorant. 'Then, exclaimed Miss Headworth, holding her hands tightly clasped, 'Shall I really see justice done at last to my poor child?
Word Of The Day