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Updated: June 21, 2025
Still a little higher than where they stood was situated the mansion, called Knapwater House, the offices gradually losing themselves among the trees behind.
The small gentry about Knapwater seemed unpractised to Miss Aldclyffe, Miss Aldclyffe herself seemed unpractised to Mr. Nyttleton's experienced old eyes. 'Now then, the lady said, when she was alone with the lawyer; 'what is the result of our advertisement? It was late summer; the estate-agency, building, engineering, and surveying worlds were dull.
I considered also, though not in any detailed manner, that the event, by attracting the attention of the village to my former abode, might set people on my track should they doubt my death, and a sudden dread of having to go back again to Knapwater a place which had seemed inimical to me from first to last prompted me to run back and bribe the porter to secrecy.
Not being able to endure the notion of his living a minute longer in the belief he was then holding, she took her pen and wrote to him also: 'KNAPWATER HOUSE September 20th. 'I find I cannot meet you at seven o'clock by the waterfall as I promised. The emotion I felt made me forgetful of realities. A great statesman thinks several times, and acts; a young lady acts, and thinks several times.
The envelope contained another envelope in Cytherea's handwriting, addressed to Manston, Esq., Old Manor House. Inside this was the note she had written to the steward after her detention in his house by the thunderstorm 'KNAPWATER HOUSE, September 20th. 'I find I cannot meet you at seven o'clock by the waterfall as I promised. The emotion I felt made me forgetful of realities.
So at his request I yielded her up to him, and meditated on several schemes for enabling me to claim the woman I had a legal right to claim as my wife, without disclosing the reason why I knew myself to have it. 'I went home to Knapwater the next day, and for nearly a week lived in a state of indecision. I could not hit upon a scheme for proving my wife dead without compromising myself. 'Mr.
Well, it ended in this way. Mr. Raunham took it: young Springrove was had as agent and steward, and put to live in Knapwater House, close here at hand just as if 'twas his own. He does just what he'd like Mr. Raunham never interferen and hither to-day he's brought his new wife, Cytherea.
At that moment the last low rays of the sun touched the head and shoulders of a man who was approaching, and showed him up to Owen's view. It was old Mr. Springrove. They had grown familiar with each other by reason of Owen's visits to Knapwater during the past year. The farmer inquired how Owen's foot was progressing, and was glad to see him so nimble again.
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