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Upon my word, I don't see that your things aren't as good as that London artist's what's his name that Leyburn gave so much money for." Philip shook his head and smiled. He had seated himself on his painting-stool, and had taken a lead pencil in his hand, with which he was making strong marks to counteract the sense of tremulousness.
Leyburn listened to this summary of matrimonial philosophy with the same yielding flurried attention as she was always disposed to give to the last speaker. 'But, she said, still in a maze, 'if she did care for him, why should she send him away? 'Because she won't have him! said Mrs.
She first knocked up Sarah and communicated the news; then she sat down before a pier-glass in her own room studying the person who had found Catherine Leyburn a husband. 'My doing from beginning to end, she cried with a triumph beyond words. 'William has had nothing to do with it. Robert has had scarcely as much. And to think how little I dreamt of it when I began!
Agnes threw a quick look at Rose; Mrs. Leyburn, as soon as she had made out through her spectacles what was the matter, broke into warm expostulations. 'It is more comfortable, dear mother, and takes much less time, said Catherine, reddening. 'Poor Mrs. Thornburgh! remarked Agnes drily.
Mayhew, giving vent to incoherencies in the course of the first act of the meal which did but confirm her neighbor a grim uncommunicative person in his own devotion to a policy of silence. Meanwhile the vicar was grappling on very unequal terms with Mrs. Seaton. Mrs. Leyburn had fallen to young Elsmere. Catherine Leyburn was paired off with Mr. Baker, Agnes with Mr.
But I think, if you'll keep me, I'll stay. And she once more rested her head clingingly on Mrs. Leyburn's knee. 'But do you do you love him, Catherine? 'I love you, mother, and the girls, and my life here. 'Oh dear, sighed Mrs. Leyburn, as though addressing a third person, the tears in her mild eyes, 'she won't, and she would like it, and so should I! Catherine rose, stung beyond bearing.
There was also some mystical idea, I think, of making up through his children for the godless lives of their forefathers. He used to reproach himself for having in his prosperous days neglected his family, some of whom he might have helped to raise. 'Well, but, said Robert, 'all very well for Miss Leyburn, but I don't see the father in the two younger girls.
As to Miss Leyburn, he had so far only exchanged a bow with her, but he was watching her now, as he sat opposite to her, out of his quick observant eyes. She, too, was in white. As she turned to speak to the youth at her side. Elsmere caught the fine outline of the head, the unusually clear and perfect moulding of the brow, nose, and upper lip.
But if she speaks to you, you die within the year. Old John Backhouse is a widower with one daughter. This girl saw the ghost last Midsummer day, and Miss Leyburn and I are now doing our best to keep her alive over the next; but with very small prospect of success. 'What is the girl dying of? fright? asked Mrs. Seaton harshly. 'Oh no! said the doctor hastily, 'not precisely.
'And I count for nothing to you, mother! her deep voice quivering; 'you could put me aside you and the girls, and live as though I had never been! 'But you would be a great deal to us if you did marry, Catherine! cried Mrs. Leyburn, almost with an accent of pettishness. 'People have to do without their daughters. There's Agnes I often think, as it is, you might let her do more.
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