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It was characteristic of her that no call for affection went disregarded that the sensitive fibres of her nature quivered beneath any caressing hand. "Do you really like me best?" she asked. "Don't I?" He laughed his impulsive, boyish laugh "I'll prove it by letting you go in for the mail this afternoon. I detest Kingsborough!" "Oh! No, no, I love it, but I suppose it is dull for you."
Her governors were no longer royal, nor did she feast them; her races were run by fleet-footed coloured urchins on the court-house green; her powder-magazine had evolved through differentiation from a stable into a church; but Kingsborough clung to her amiable habits.
Her sister had been driven mad by the ill-treatment of a man to whom she was bound by legal, but not by natural ties. Lady Kingsborough, giving to dogs the love which neither her coarse husband nor her children by him could evoke, was not a brilliant example of conjugal pleasure. Probably in London other cases had come within her notice.
Here we dined at a publick house, I believe the only inn of the island, and having mounted our horses, travelled in the manner already described, till we came to Kingsborough, a place distinguished by that name, because the King lodged here when he landed at Port Re. We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr.
On the western side of the house there was a spreading mimosa tree, its sensitive branches brushing the green shutters of a window in the second story. The Hall had been built by the general's father when, because of family dissensions, he had decided to move from a central county to the more thinly settled country surrounding Kingsborough.
"If I can find time, with all my other duties, don't you think that you might be able to do so?" Eugenia was baffled. "Of course I love Kingsborough," she said, "and I'd preserve every inch of it with my own hands if I could but I can't bear meetings and and things." Mrs. Webb took a careful stitch in the damask.
Her surroundings were uncongenial, her duties distasteful, and she was disapproved of by her employer. This she before long found when, Mary being temporarily separated from her pupils, Margaret showed more regret than her mother thought the occasion warranted. Lady Kingsborough seized the opportunity to give the governess her dismissal.
But, whatever might be said of places that shall be nameless, it was otherwise with Kingsborough. Kingsborough was the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. She who had feasted royal governors, staked and lost upon Colonial races, and exploded like an ignited powder-horn in the cause of American independence, was still superbly conscious of the honours which had been hers.
To the materials derived from these sources, I have added some manuscripts of an important character from the library of the Escurial. These, which chiefly relate to the ancient institutions of Peru, formed part of the splendid collection of Lord Kingsborough, which has unfortunately shared the lot of most literary collections, and been dispersed since the death of its noble author.
The children are, literally speaking, wild Irish, unformed and not very pleasing; but you shall have a full and true account, my dear girl, in a few days.... I am your affectionate sister and sincere friend, It was at least fortunate that she escaped, with Lady Kingsborough, the indignities which she had feared she, as governess, would receive.
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