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"What warrant have you for all those things? Mind, Gilbert, I like the girl well enough; I have nothing to say against her; but I cannot help thinking it a most unfortunate match for you." "How unfortunate?" "The girl's position is so very doubtful." "Position!" echoed Gilbert impatiently. "That sort of talk is one of the consequences of living in such a place as Lidford.
Gilbert asked these young ladies if they knew of any other acquaintance of Marian's living in or near London. They both answered promptly in the negative. The school was a small one, and they had been the only pupils who came from town; nor had they ever heard Marian speak of any London friends. Thus ended Mr. Fenton's inquiries in this direction, leaving him no wiser than when he left Lidford.
Would not the time soon come in which its dreariness would oppress him as the dulness of Lidford House had oppressed him to-night? His youth was fast going nay, had it not indeed gone from him for ever? had not youth left him all at once when he began his commercial career? and the pleasures that had been fresh enough within the last few years were rapidly growing stale.
Unless I get some kind of clue, the business will seem a hopeless one. But I cannot imagine that the advertisements will fail completely. If she left Lidford to be married, there must be some record of her marriage. Should my first advertisements fail, my next shall be inserted with a view to discover such a record."
I knew she had been very fond of two young ladies that she went to school with at Lidford, whose father lived in London; and I thought it was to their house she was going. I asked her if it was, and she said yes. She made arrangements with the landlord about selling the furniture. He is an auctioneer himself, and there was no difficulty about that.
I prefer such spots as are most remote from the haunts of men, unknown to cockneys; and so long as there is a river within reach of my lodging, I can make myself tolerably happy with a punt and a fishing-rod, and contrive to forget my cares." "You have not been to Lidford since I left England, I suppose?" "Yes; I was at Heatherly a week or two in the winter.
Gilbert was quite certain that he had never heard the name at Lidford, nor could he believe that if any attachment between this man and Marian Nowell had existed before his own acquaintance with her, Captain Sedgewick would have been so dishonourable as to keep the fact a secret from him.
The landlord of Hazel Cottage does not know. He is my landlord also, and I was asking him about Miss Nowell when I paid my rent the other day. He said he supposed she had gone away to be married. That has been the general impression, in fact, at Lidford. People made sure that Miss Nowell had left to be married to you." "I have only just returned from Australia.
A pleasant fellow Forster, in a dissipated good-for-nothing kind of way, always up to his eyes in debt. Did you happen to meet him while you were down there?" "No, I don't think the Listers know him." "So much the better for them! It is a vice to know him. And you were not dull at Lidford?" "Very far from it, Jack. I was happier there than I have ever been in my life before."
I told you last night how sweet Lidford had been to me." "Yes," she said, with a bright inquiring look in her eyes. "But what have I to do with that?" "Everything. It is you who have made the little country village my paradise. O Marian, tell me that it has not been a fool's paradise! My darling, I love you with all my heart and soul, with an honest man's first and only love.
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