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He came near her and extended his arms. One glance at the smiling Lady Houstoun showed Lucy that her interdict was removed, and the next instant she lay in speechless joy once more upon her lover's bosom. We were within three days of the New Year. Mr. Arlington, who was quite learned on the subject, had been amusing us with an account of its various modes of celebration in various countries.
Lucy's pale face became crimson, and she bent her eyes to the ground without speaking the lady continued "I scarcely think that you could yourself have believed that Edward Houstoun intended to dishonor his family by a legal connection with you."
"If your determination were, as you say, to separate yourself from Mr. Houstoun, it is unfortunate that you should have taken up your residence so near us." "I knew not until this morning that I was near you." "If you are sincere in what you say, you will have no objection now to leave New-York." "I have no objection to go to any place in which I can support myself in peace."
If our time was short, the greater the necessity for crowding enjoyment into its every moment, he said: we could spare none of it for lamentations. "Now, Aunt Nancy," he continued, "if I am not mistaken, you can match Mr. Arlington's story with one quite as romantic, of an extraordinary marriage in high life. Do you remember Lady Houstoun and her son Edward Houstoun " "Oh, yes!"
Edward Houstoun shook his head "Even had I an author's gifts, Lucy, that would not do for me I must have action in my life " "What say you to the pulpit?" "The noblest of all employments, Lucy but it is a heavenly employment and needs a heavenly spirit. I would not dare to think of that. Try again " "The law? Ah! now I see I have chosen rightly you will be a lawyer a great lawyer, like Mr.
She is no doubt lurking about Liberty county, at which place she has relatives. EDWARD HOUSTOUN, of Florida" "$20 Reward will be paid for the apprehension and delivery, at the workhouse in Charleston, of a mulatto woman, named Ida. It is probable she may have made her way into Georgia, where she has connections.
All else was his mother's, and though it would doubtless be his at her death, the Lady Houstoun was not one to relinquish the reins of government before that inevitable hour should wrest them from her hand.
Among the latter was that for which I was searching, and which Annie insists that I shall give to the reader, under the title of A proud and stately dame was Lady Houstoun, as she continued to be called after the independence of America had rendered such titles valueless in our land.
Before it appeared Edward Houstoun was far away. He was travelling to recruit his exhausted powers to Niagara, perhaps into Canada, and in the then slow progress of news he was little likely to be recalled by any intelligence from the city. His mother was one of the first who had sickened.
Turning forcibly from such thoughts, he sprang down the steps, and pursued a path leading by the orchard and through a flowery lane, towards the dwelling of the farmer to whom the management of the Glen had been intrusted, first by Sir Edward and afterwards by Lady Houstoun.
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