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He had been out continually, coming home to dinner tired and exhausted, though afterwards he always tried to talk and be cheerful. To her surprise, Major Harper never again called, nor, except in the brief answer to her question, "that Frederick was gone from home," did Nathanael ever mention his brother's name. "This is Kingcombe," said Mr.
On the morning her first morning at Kingcombe Holm Mrs. Harper woke refreshed to a bright day. All the terraced outline of the hills was pencilled distinctly against the bluest of blue skies, which hung like a tent over the shut-up valley.
A little wiry shrimp of a fellow who seemed to know all about our family, Fred included; so Duke, in his ultra hospitality, took the creature in for the night, and this morning drove him over to Kingcombe Holm. There, don't let us bother ourselves about him. How do you feel now, Anne? Quite well, eh?" "Quite well," Anne echoed in her cheerful voice that never had a tone of pain or complaining.
We are a terribly inquisitive town; and weddings are scarce at Kingcombe. Take your wife, Nathanael. There you go a very handsome, interesting young couple. Nay, don't cheat the townsfolk by taking the garden way." "Do, pray?" entreated Agatha of her husband. "Don't let the people see us."
God bless you!" The "God bless you!" was added hastily in less neat writing, as if the letter had been broken open to do it. The signature was merely his initials, "N. L. H.," and the date "Kingcombe Holm," which Agatha supposed was his father's house in Dorsetshire. Then, even there, amidst his dear home circle, he had thought of her!
It was doubtless one of Miss Valery's numerous anonymous charities, which fell as abundant and unnoticed as rain. "Now" and Anne startled her godchild Brian by turning up his little rosy chin and kissing him "now, who will come back with us to that grand family-dinner which the Squire has set his heart upon, and Aunt Mary is so busy-about to-day at Kingcombe Holm?"
As Nathanael had taken for granted the same thing, and as Mary Harper had likewise communicated her opinion, that it was against all etiquette for her poor father's only brother to be welcomed anywhere but at Kingcombe Holm, there seemed likely to be a tolerable family fight over the possession of the said Uncle Brian.
The street was very dark, for Kingcombe people were economisers in gas; and besides kept such primitive hours, that at ten o'clock you might walk from one end of the town to the other and not see a light in any house. There was not a soul abroad except these two, and their feet echoed loudly along the pavement.
But Agatha fled on and on, noticing nothing, except once, when with a start she saw the great black outline of Corfe Castle looming against the night-sky. When she reached Kingcombe, it was still dark. She could not even have found her way, save for the faint sky brightness lent by the overcast moon; and the distance she had traversed was all but miraculous.
Uncle Brian talked, though in a rather fragmentary and brief fashion, of Kingcombe and of the changes he found. He never by any chance mentioned any other place than Kingcombe, until Nathanael happened to ask him where Duke was this morning? "He has ridden out." "But I wanted to see him, and thank him for being so kind to my poor little wife. Where has he gone?" "To Thornhurst."
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