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Do you love me well enough to find me a better place, if you get me turned out of Huntercombe Hall?" "Yes, I will; a much better." "That is a bargain." Mary Wells was silly in some things, but she was very cunning, too; and she knew Richard Bassett's hobby.
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
The hall door of Huntercombe was approached by a flight of stone steps, easy of ascent, and about twenty-four feet wide.
You are the right sort: but they tormented me so with their books and their dark rooms. It is very unfortunate to be a boy. When I am a man, I shall be too old to be tormented, and then I will come back. "Your dutiful son, Lady Bassett telegraphed Sir Charles, and he returned to Huntercombe, looking old, sad, and worn.
Oh, it was a master-stroke, clapping him in that asylum! All we have got to do now is to let well alone. When she is over head and ears in love with Angelo she will come to easy terms with us, and so I'll move across the way. I shall never be happy till I live at Huntercombe, and administer the estate." The maid-servant brought him a note, and said it was from her mistress.
She deserved this at his hands, for she assisted him there where his heart was fixed; she aided his hobby; did more for it than any other creature in England could. To return to Huntercombe Hall: the loving couple that owned it were no longer happy. The hope of offspring was now deserting them, and the disappointment was cruel.
He used to sit by the fire and mutter, "Blow upon blow, blow upon blow. My poor boy will never be lord of Huntercombe now!" and so on. Wheeler pitied him, but could not rouse him. At last a person for whose narrow attainments and simplicity he had a profound, though, to do him justice, a civil contempt, ventured to his rescue. Mrs.
At nine next morning the four-in-hand came round, and they started for the asylum coachman and two more in brave liveries; two outriders. Twenty miles from Huntercombe they changed the wheelers, two fresh horses having been sent on at night.
Now a wealthy and popular baronet could not thus immure himself for any length of time without exciting curiosity, and setting all manner of rumors afloat. Visitors poured into Huntercombe to inquire. Lady Bassett excused herself to many, but some of her own sex she thought it best to encounter. This subjected her to the insidious attacks of curiosity admirably veiled with sympathy.
No, if a sick woman called me to her bedside this week, I'd go, whether she wrote from Huntercombe Hall or the poorest house in the place; else how could I hope my Saviour would come to my bedside at my last hour?"
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