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Now it is a disagreeable thing to think you will starve if you leave, and be shot if you remain at your work; but I hear that the "herd" has asked for protection and will try to weather it out. His master, Mr. Barbour, and Mr. Mitchell hold each about half of the great farm formerly held of Lord Sligo by Captain Houstoun, the husband of the well-known authoress.
"But who is she, Mrs. Pye?" "Who is she? Why, sure, and did you never hear of Lucy Watson? Oh! here's Mr. Pye." Edward Houstoun was too much interested in learning something more of Lucy Watson, not to find a sufficient reason for lingering behind the farmer, who was impatient to be in his hay-field. Mrs.
We will not linger to describe the emotion with which Lady Houstoun, awakening from this long and tranquil slumber, exhausted, but no longer delirious, first recognised her nurse.
During the three years which had passed since that event, neither Lady Houstoun nor her son had visited the Glen, and it was not without emotion that she heard him name his intention of taking a party thither; but she offered no opposition to the plan, and in a little more than a week he was established in the comfortable dwelling-house there, with Walter Osgood; Philip Van Schaick, and Peter Schuyler, companions who were soon persuaded to leave the somewhat formal circles of the city for a few days of adventure in the country.
"As to supporting yourself, that is of no consequence. I will " "Pardon me, Lady Houstoun, it is of the utmost consequence to me. I cannot again live a dependent on your bounty." "What can you do? Has your education been such that you can take the situation of governess?" "Mr. Merton was a highly educated man, and Mrs.
This was that of the simple soldier whose gallantry under William the Conqueror had laid the foundation of his family fortunes and honors. "Dear mother," said he one day, "what proof have we that those other fine gentlemen and ladies deserved the wealth and station which, through his noble qualities, they obtained?" "Sir James Houstoun, my son, who devoted life and fortune to his king "
She made her son a very handsome allowance, however, and, with a higher degree of generosity than any pecuniary grant could evince, she never attempted to control his actions, suffering him to enjoy his sports in the country and amusements in the city without constraint. The Lady Houstoun was a wise woman, as well as an affectionate mother.
I shall have to scold my sister," said Edward Houstoun. "What complaint can you make now that I have found you a brother?" Lucy laughed, but soon her face grew grave, and, after a thoughtful pause, she said, "I believe those cannot be quite happy who feel that they have nothing to do in the world.
As soon as Lady Houstoun could be removed with safety, she went, by the advice of her physician, to her country-seat.
Edward Houstoun held a book in his hand, but it had long been closed, while he was engaged in a far more interesting study. He had with a delicate tact won his companion to speak as she had never spoken before of herself not of the few events of her short life, for these were already known to him, but of the influence of those events on feeling and character.
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