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Updated: June 6, 2025
She had insisted upon following with the guns, although Lady Wakely and the two other elderly women had driven back to Ledstone. The yellow paradise plume and bright-blue dress made a glowing spot of color on the brown, ploughed field. Miss Springle tripped gayly along in front with Mr. Dodd, coquettishly tapping him on the arm and looking up in his face.
The sullen, charred sticks had not life enough to burn it. I lit a match and watched the bright flames curl up the chimney until all was destroyed. Then I fled. Here at least in the cottage I will never come again. The room is full of ghosts. On the whole, however, my visit did me good. I returned to Ledstone with a firm determination to be more like grandmamma.
Gurrage takin' advantage of the opportunities, his partener dyin' youngish but I liked the idea of your bein' high-born, and I was frightened about Gussie's lookin' at that girl at the Ledstone Arms. And you seemed good and quiet and well-brought-up. And Gussie just doted on you. You ought to have jumped at him, but you and your grandma were that proud!
"I am afraid, with only this short notice, there is little chance of Sir Antony being disengaged," I remarked. I somehow felt as if I did not want him to come to Ledstone. He would be so ridiculously out of place here.
I have tried very hard to take an interest in the matter, but the numbness has returned. The oppression of the surroundings at Ledstone cramps my spirit. We have had several "parties" batches of Gurrage relations one or two really awful people. And some days ago I was bidden to write and invite the guests for the first big partridge drive.
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