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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I hope so," said his mother, permitting herself to smile. "Of course he will marry," said the lawyer. "But he had better take his degree first," the cousin added, feeling that he had distinguished himself; "and in the meantime the girls and you will have time to look about you. Highcombe is rather a dull place. And then the house is large.
The post town for the Warren was Highcombe, which was about four miles off. To drive there had always been considered a dissipation, not to say a temptation, for the Warrenders; at least for the feminine portion of the family.
Chatty suffered herself to be taken abroad without any very strong opinion of her own. She would have been content to adopt Minnie's way, to go back to Highcombe and "live it down," though indeed she was unconscious of scandal, or of the necessity of living down anything.
It was arranged for the convenience of everybody that the wedding was to take place in London. Dick's relations were legion, and to stow them away in the Dower house at Highcombe, or even to find room to give them a sandwich and a glass of wine, let alone a breakfast, after the ceremony, was impossible.
It was only when I knew, Miss Chatty, what it would do to you and then it was too late. I went to Highcombe, but you had gone from there; and then when I got to London " A flush came over Chatty's face, as all the extraordinary scene came back to her. "It seems strange that it should be you who were mixed up with all," she said.
By-and-by there was a cricket-match in the farmer's meadow, Highcombe and Huntercombe eleven against the town of Staveleigh. All clubs liked to play at Huntercombe, because Sir Charles found the tents and the dinner, and the young farmers drank his champagne to their hearts' content. Ruperta took her maid and went to see the match. They found it going against Huntercombe. The score as follows
Well, what is it then, if it isn't Dissent?" Then Miss Warrender gave an account of the real state of affairs. "The letter was there on the table, dated the Elms, Underwood, Highcombe, as if as if it was a county family; just as we put it ourselves on our paper." "But far finer than ours, gilt, and paper so polished and shining, and a quarter of an inch thick. Oh, much finer than ours!"
I saw one called 'Woodstock, and another 'Highcombe House. If we took one, we should have to call it 'The Grange." "Helen, you have told me all about those little huts twice already, during the last half-hour. Only, last time you had seen one called 'Runnymead, and another called 'The Limes. Presently, if you like, we will walk along and read all the names.
Warrender drove into Highcombe with Chatty, an expedition which she had made several times of late, as often as the horses could be spared. The house in Highcombe, which was her own, which she was to live in with the girls if Theo married or anything happened, was being put in order, and that too was a gentle interest. Fortunately, upon this afternoon Minnie was occupied in the parish.
"I'll balk them," he said to himself, with fierce satisfaction, as if those respectable imaginary executors of his had been ill-natured gossips bent on exposing him. And he burnt the papers one by one at his candle, watching the last fibre of each fade away in redness and then in blackness, disappearing into nothing. And then he packed his portmanteau and went down to Highcombe.
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