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He had lost his second wife, Emily Dean. He was about to sail for America, and should bring his two youngest children, little girls, aged respectively six and eight, whom he hoped Althea would make room for in her new home. He was unable to embark as soon as was intended, and arrived six weeks later than was designed. Philip St. Leger, then, arrived once more at Kennons.
During the few months remaining of her school-life, she should divide her time at the houses of her elder aunts. After that, she should take up her abode with her uncle, Duncan Lisle, at Kennons. This latter arrangement, which had been always understood, seemed now to all parties doubly desirable. She would be removed even from the city where Juliet Temple lived.
And as both parties hold the Holy Father in most grateful and loving remembrance, and their most cherished design is to make him a visit at his prison in the Vatican, it is probable that a dispensation from Rome severed the last link of obstruction, and permitted Father Ryan, willingly at last, to tie the Gordion Knot. Arriving at Kennons, Althea, of course, paid her respects to Mrs.
I have charged Juliet to see that no influence is ever brought to bear upon the mind of my child as she advances in years but I have still grave fears. Possibly the time may come when you can remove her to Kennons, say, for a year or so, at a time; it would be a source of pleasure to me to have Althea beneath the roof under which her excellent mother was reared."
Being unable to reënter the service, after several weeks recruiting in the hospital, he was permitted to visit Kennons. That was a harder place for him than Salisbury.
The marching of soldiers came even upon the grounds of Kennons. At times the noise and smoke of battle filled the atmosphere, as had the direful cholera thirty years before. Rusha Lisle would have turned Kennons into an hospital for Southern soldiers.
Ere that cruel curtain of gloom should shut from the dreamer's eye his pleasant fancies, and with them the dying flames, the loud barking of dogs, soon succeeded by hurried steps and voices, aroused the half-conscious master of Kennons to the stern reality of the present moment.
He hated Hubert Lisle. To thwart him he would have circumvented heaven and earth. With Thornton Rush this consideration weighed even more than Althea's promised dowry. Spite, revenge, avarice, every worst passion should be gratified in the accomplishment of a union with Althea. Unfortunately, the situation of things at Kennons favored this wretched wooing.
Moreover, she disdained answering his letter, even had she not destroyed his written, but unread address and fictitious name. Hubert Lisle, too, had volunteered, but it was to his country, and he was contending bravely, steadfastly, in the Northern ranks. Only good reports came back to Kennons of Ellice's brave son.
But the baker's widow went on with her story, enjoying it for its own sake. "You know, Mr. Richlin' he told me finfty dtimes, 'Misses Reisen, doant kif up te pissness! Ovver I see te mutcheenery proke undt te foundtries all makin' guns undt kennons, undt I choost says, 'I kot plenteh moneh I tdtink I kfit undt go home. Ovver I sayss to de Doctor, 'Dte oneh dting vot Mr.
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