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On the contrary, her life was less bright than usual, for the Newcomes were naturally displeased at Mr Bertrand's objections to the engagement, and would not hold any communication with Miss Carr's household until the matter was decided. Thus Lettice was deprived of the society of her best friend, and was forbidden the house in which she had been accustomed to spend her happiest hours.
"Your wife's estate controls about three thousand acres of timber," he pronounced. "What will you take for them?" "How much do you control?" Gordon asked. "About twenty-five hundred at present." Gordon paused, then, "Lettice will take thirty dollars an acre." "Why!" the other protested, "Pompey bought them for little or nothing. You're after over two hundred per cent. increase."
As Arthur Newcome was out of town he could see no objection to Lettice remaining where she was, and Miss Carr agreed the more readily in this decision as she had made a number of engagements which it would have been difficult to forego.
You will be quite an old woman, Norah." "Yes; twenty-three! Lettice will be married; Hilary too, very likely. The Mouse will be as big as I was when you first knew us, and Raymond a doctor in practice. It will all be different!" Norah's voice was very low as she spoke the last words, and her face twitched as if she were about to break down once more.
He might, however, have spared himself the trouble, for, although he prevented their meeting on some occasions, yet love was conqueror in the end, and with Lettice as a trusty helpmeet, the two lovers found ways and means by which to see each other of which he never dreamed.
Gilbert also considered her a very sweet girl, though not equal in all respects to his sister Lettice, who was fairer and somewhat taller and more graceful; but then Gilbert always declared that Lettice was perfection itself.
"Lettice!" she exclaimed, in a species of exasperated concern, "don't you know better than to sit up to all hours?" The following morning, "Oh, Gordon!" Lettice cried, "I like him ever so much; he played and played with me." Gordon had gone to the post-office, and was descending the slope from the public road to his dwelling.
Frederick Jones sends you his humble services." "La, brother! and how is the dear man?" screamed Mistress Lettice. "As well as 'tis in nature to be, with his heart at Verney Manor and his body at Flowerdieu Hundred." The boat jarred against the piles and the planter stepped out, grasping Sir Charles's extended hand. "Again, I am happy to see you, Charles," he cried in a round and jovial voice.
"In the long field. I'll show you the stable; it won't take me a minute to get ready." He hitched, in an incredibly short space of time, a tall, ungainly roan horse into the buggy; his practised hands connected the straps, settled the headstall, the collar, as if by magic. He stood in a fever of uneasiness at the harnessed head. Lettice was longer than she had indicated.
He might have grasped it thus, and the sacramental wine would have been a Circe's potion, and Lettice would have given her gift in vain. But nature does not so miscalculate her highest moods. "Spirits are not finely touched but to fine issues." Lettice's giving was an act of faith, and her faith was justified.
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