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Don't you know you have only half-an-hour and you must go to church, or all Kingcombe would be talking." "I meant to go I shall be ready in two minutes." "My patience! ready in such a gown! Come here Nathanael. Are you aware it's indispensable for your wife to appear at church in wedding costume, just as she did on that blissful day, when" "Hush!
Is she risen yet, Eulalie?" Eulalie did not know; but Mary added, that she feared this was one of Elizabeth's "hard days," when she could not talk much to any one till evening. Anne continued, after a pause "I want to drive over to Kingcombe about some business. I have had so much on my hands since poor Mr. Wilson's death." "Anne's steward," whispered the Beauty importantly to her sister-in-law.
"Now, what is to be done to-day?" said she, as she ate the breakfast which Harrie brought her, and looked round the strange bed-room, which made her feel more bewildered than ever. So many phases, so many lives did she seem to have passed through since she was married. "The first thing to be done, my dear, is to take you back to Kingcombe Holm, to do respectful to your papa-in-law.
"Do you see that white house far among the trees? That's where my Duke was born. He lived there in peace and quietness till he got acquainted with Uncle Brian, and came to Kingcombe Holm and fell in love with me." "How did he do it? I want to know what is the fashion of such things in Dorset." "How did Duke fall in love with me? Really I can't tell. I was fifteen or so a mere baby!
You must have missed her a good deal." "No, I did not. I have never been outside the garden." "Was that quite right, my dear? And your sisters-in-law complain bitterly that you will not go to Kingcombe Holm." "They should have taken more trouble in coming to ask me. "Nay, in this world we should not judge too harshly. We cannot see into any one's motives. There may have been reasons.
Miss Bowen's frank gaiety died slowly away, and she fell into more than one long reverie, which did not escape the benign notice of her guardian. He grew serious, and made an attempt to remove from her his own dangerous proximity. "Come, N. L., it is time we vanished. You have never told me the least fragment of news from home that is, from Kingcombe." "You were too much engaged, brother.
He would not close his eyes, but they looked misty and heavy, and his fingers played lazily with one another on the arm of his chair; Agatha laid her own upon them she could not help it. She lost her fear of the repellent Mr. Harper in the old man, so helpless and feeble. She wished she had come oftener to Kingcombe Holm, and been more attentive and daughter-like to Nathanael's father.
At Kingcombe Holm the house had awakened from its sleep of mourning; the shutters were opened, and the sunshine came in familiarly on the familiar rooms where was missed the presence of him who had abided there for threescore years and ten. But what were they? Counted only as "labour and sorrow" they had all passed away, and he was gone. The family met a large table circle.
It was a curious place Kingcombe, or so Agatha thought. "How strange it is," Mr. Harper observed. "All these old spots seem to me like places beheld in a dream. Uncle Brian often used to talk about them. I think to this day he remembers everything and everybody about Kingcombe." "Does he?" "And that some day or other he will come back again I do most firmly believe. Do not you, Anne?" "Yes."
They then drove along a high ridge for a mile or two, till they got quite out of sight of Kingcombe Holm. Miss Valery talked gaily the whole way; and, as though the sea-breeze truly gave her life, was the very first to propose leaving the carriage and walking on, so as to catch the earliest glimpse of the Channel. "There!" she said, breathlessly, and quitting Mr.
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