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Updated: June 15, 2025
But here they were in Kingcombe streets very quiet, sleepy streets, which seemed to have taken an undisturbed doze for a few centuries, to atone for the terrible excitements there created successively by Danish, Roman, Saxon, and baronial ruffians.
But we have plenty of time." "Kingcombe; is that the place your father lives at?" said Mrs. lanson, who took a patronising interest in the young man. "What a pretty name! Were you aware of it, Miss Bowen?"
He would not let his woman-kind depart. He had many toasts to give, and various old reminiscences to unfold to his daughter-in-law. She heard all in a misty dream, and kept on vaguely smiling. At last the purgatory was ended, and they rose. Nathanael held the door open for his wife and sisters to retire things went on so formally even in the every-day life at Kingcombe Holm.
The question was from Anne. "Elizabeth hopes so. He surely will not disappoint Elizabeth. And he must come to see Uncle Brian; they were such friends, you know. All the middle-aged oddities in Kingcombe are on the qui vive to see Uncle Brian and Fred. They two were the finest young fellows in the neighbourhood, people say, and to think they should both come back miserable old bachelors!
And Harrie kissed the little fellow passionately, with something more even than a mother's love. Agatha could have lifted up her arms and shrieked with misery. It was a strange long day at Kingcombe Holm; many things to be arranged, many questions to be parried, many prying eyes to be avoided.
Her anger faded she was near bursting in tears. In a little while she had taken the good man's arm which Eulalie pointedly informed her was not the fashion at Kingcombe and was walking with him to meet her husband. Marmaduke talked but little; marching on leisurely in a meditative mood, and leaving his young sister-in-law to follow his example.
While they all thus stood, there came a light foot and a flutter of draperies to the door. "My patience! what are you all doing here? So, Agatha Anne! How d'ye do, my worthy brother? Why didn't you all come to our house?" "We were coming directly," Agatha said. "But how did you find out we were at Kingcombe?" "You little London-lady!
There could be no doubt it was done immediately before the paralytic attack, when he was perfectly in his senses; indeed, he could not be said ever to have lost them. The family sat, awed by their father's deed; to question which never struck them for a moment legal chicanery was not rife at Kingcombe Holm.
Quiet! It was like enjoining stillness to a corpse! Agatha shuddered when she had used the word. For a moment the dread of her position rose upon her. In that lonely house, at night too, with no help nearer than Kingcombe: and even then no husband, no friend for she dared not send to poor, sick Anne Valery! And she so young, so inexperienced. But no matter!
You shall be patient, in every sense, for a little while longer, and then we'll all be very happy all, I say, next year." With this declaration she made ready to carry her friend off to Kingcombe to her own little house where she was bent on detaining Anne prisoner. Miss Valery declared herself quite willing to be thus bound for a day or two, until she was strong enough to go to Kingcombe Holm.
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