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But her husband and Miss Valery took everything easily they were used to the ways at Kingcombe Holm. "Oh, if your sister Harriet would but come in, or Mr. Dugdale!" she whispered to her husband, "surely they would settle something." "Not at all; they would only make matters worse. And, look! 'speaking of angels, one often sees their wings. Is that you, Marmaduke?" "Ay." Mr.
Keep yourself quiet, do. See, there's its husband coming down the street to comfort it. He is looking up here, too. Run down, do'ee now; and if she'll be a good girl she shall have the neatest household and the best husband in Kingcombe always excepting mine."
What will they all say at Kingcombe Holm?" "Nothing that I cannot combat. My father will be glad of our settling near him in Dorsetshire." "In Dorsetshire!" echoed Mrs. Harper dolefully; and thereupon fled her last visions of a gay London home. Yet she already liked her husband's county and people well enough to bear the sacrifice with tolerable equanimity.
She was quite content to keep him talking about things and people in whom her interest was naturally growing; of Kingcombe Holm, the old house on the Dorset coast, where the Harpers had dwelt for centuries; of its present owner, Nathanael Harper, Esquire, of that venerable name so renowned in Dorsetshire pedigrees, that one Harper had refused to merge it even in the blaze of a peerage.
Stay now. Wait till the horse is quiet, and I'll take a leap down just like a person leaping into" "Hold, Agatha" and she felt her arm caught by her husband. It was the first time he had touched or addressed her since they left Kingcombe. "Don't spring down it is not safe. Stay till I lift you." "I do not want your help." "Excuse me, you do; you are not used to this sort of carriage.
Tell my old friend Duke that I congratulate him on having given up merchandising, so that my brother at Kingcombe Holm can no longer reproach him with being the only one of the Harper connection who earns a livelihood."
Whatever the good Kingcombe people thought, He to whom the whole earth is a temple, and all time a long Sabbath of praise would forgive her that she did not go to church that day. She heard a foot on the stairs, and ran thither like lightning. Nathanael appeared.
"Because papa abhors a gay 'vagabondising' life, and always wished his eldest son to settle down in the county. I know though he says nothing that this has been a sore point between them for nearly twenty years." "And I know," added Eulalie, mysteriously, "that papa was going to make a last effort, and have Frederick proposed as member for Kingcombe.
"Oh!" she sighed, as she sat, with the letters on her lap, listening to what her lover said of his sisters and his family "oh! that we could do as your father seems to wish, and go and live in Dorsetshire, near Kingcombe Holm." "I wish it too, if it would please you, dear; but it seems impossible.
Either by necessity or design, he had been almost constantly away; at Thornhurst, arranging business for Miss Valery, who had gone home; sometimes at Kingcombe, in his own house his lonely house; and for two days and nights, to the astonishment and slight scandal of his sisters, he had been absent in Cornwall.
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