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You will find students there from the lower towns, now and then an artist, or a geologist absorbed in construing the ancient strata of the hills. A few quiet families spend the summers there; and often one or two tired members of that patient sisterhood known to Lakelands as "schoolmarms."
The Lakelands boys proudly took turns at pumping it for her at each Sunday's service. The Rev. Mr. Banbridge was the preacher, and rode down from Squirrel Gap on his old white horse without ever missing a service. And Abram Strong paid for everything. He paid the preacher five hundred dollars a year; and Miss Phoebe two hundred dollars.
'My girl will have ten thousand a year settled on her the day of her marriage. Choice of living at Lakelands was offered. It helped him over the unpleasant part of that interview. At the same time, it moved him to a curious contempt of the youth. He had to conjure-up an image of the young man in person, to correct the sentiment: and it remained as a kind of bruise only half cured. Mr.
Nesta's never speaking of Lakelands clouded him a little, as an intimation of her bent of mind. 'And does my girl come to her dada to-day? he said, on the fifth morning since her return; prepared with a villanous resignation to hear, that this day she abstained, though he had the wish for her coming. 'Why, don't you know, said she, 'we all meet to have tea in Mr.
It's a place for being quite independent of neighbours, free as air. 'Oh! bravo! 'And Fredi will have her horse, and mama her pony-carriage; and Fredi can have a swim every Summer morning. 'A swim? Her note was dubious. 'A river? 'A good long stretch fairish, fairish. Bit of a lake; bathing-shed; the Naiad's bower: pretty water to see. 'Ah. And has the house a name? 'Lakelands.
The reasoning went and it somewhat affected the mansion as well as the cottage, that if he had become popular in this astonishing fashion, after making one of the biggest fortunes of modern times, he might, he must, have secret gifts. 'You can't foretell weather! cried a pothouse sceptic. But the workmen at Lakelands declared that he had foretold it.
These were matters going on behind the curtain; as wholly vital to her, and with him at times almost as dominant, as the spiritual in memory, when flesh has left but its shining track in dust of a soul outwritten; and all their talk related to the purchase of furniture, the expeditions to Lakelands, music, public affairs, the pardonable foibles of friends created to amuse their fellows, operatic heroes and heroines, exhibitions of pictures, the sorrows of Crowned Heads, so serviceable ever to mankind as an admonition to the ambitious, a salve to the envious! in fine, whatsoever can entertain or affect the most social of couples, domestically without a care to appearance.
He appeared to be appreciating her, to have suffered stings of pain; he offered himself; he made but one stipulation. Victor regretfully assured him, he feared he could do nothing. The thought of his entry into Lakelands, with Nesta Victoria refusing the foundation stone of the place, grew dim.
I was down in the country early this morning, looking over the house, with Taplow, my architect; and he speaks fairly well of the contractors. Yes, down at Lakelands; and saw my first lemon butterfly in a dell of sunshine, out of the wind, and had half a mind to catch it for Fredi, and should have caught it myself, if I had! The truth is, we three are country born and bred; we pine in London.
Caddis had previously stood eminent as an iceberg of the Lakelands' party. Mr. Inchling and Mr. Caddis were introduced. The former in Commerce, the latter in Politics, their sustaining boast was, the being our stable Englishmen; and at once, with cousinly minds, they fell to chatting upon the nothings agreeably and seriously.
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