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So she sat in all the turmoil of her new birth, distracted between love and shame, and not knowing which was stronger feeling as if in a dream, but, every now and then waking to think of Dunaston, and should she go or stay away when, just as little Fina came running to her, ready dressed and loud in her insistence that they should set off at once, the lodge-gates swung back and Edgar Harrowby rode up to the door.
One can stand little faults of manner and temper from a daughter-in-law, who is an heiress, which one would be justly indignant at were she a pauper. A sound of wheels turning in at the lodge-gates it is Maurice's hansom. Helen hurries forward to meet him in the hall; Captain Kynaston is handing a lady out of the hansom; Helen peers at her suspiciously.
"But the night is cold." "Oh, no." He closed the door, and took his seat by the coachman; the footman got up behind, and the carriage sped away. Isabel gathered herself into her corner, and moaned aloud in her suspense and helplessness. The coachman drove rapidly, and soon whipped his horses through the lodge-gates. The housekeeper, Mrs. Mason, waited at the hall-door to receive Lady Isabel. Mr.
The blinds were all down at Longdean Grange, a new desolation seemed to be added to the gloom of the place. Out in the village it had by some means become known that there was somebody dead in the house, either madam herself or one of those beautiful young ladies whom nobody had ever seen. Children loitering about the great lodge-gates regarded Williams with respectful awe and Dr.
They had reached the road that turned up to the village, and the light from a large lamp some distance up the hill shone down upon them. "That is where Mr. Fielding lives," said Green, as they walked towards it. "Those are his lodge-gates. No doubt you have heard of him too. He is the great man of the place. He owns it, in fact." "Yes, I have heard of him," said Juliet. "Is he a nice man?"
A minute later, and the darkness of the night had swallowed them up. Williams fastened the lodge-gates behind them, and they turned their faces in the direction of Rottingdean Road. "A strange night's work," David said, presently. "Aye, but pregnant with result," Bell answered. There was a stern, exulting ring in his voice.
Its master had risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and shining eyes. A few minutes later we had reached the lodge-gates, a maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars' heads of the Baskervilles.
Within the lodge-gates or without them it seemed all alike a park it was all so intensely 'property. The very name of Plash, which was quaint and old, had not lost its effect upon her, nor had it become indifferent to her that the place was a dower-house the little red-walled, ivied asylum to which old Mrs. Berrington had retired when, on his father's death, her son came into the estates.
Major Vernon walked briskly down the long avenue leading to the lodge-gates. "Two thou' is comfortable," he muttered to himself; "very satisfactory for a first go-in at the gold-diggin's! but I shall expect my California to produce a little more than that before we close the shaft, and retire upon the profits of the speculation. I think my friend is safe I don't think he'll run away.
The road to Washington was in places good, and often turned in among the pines. At Riverdale they saw the deer of Mr. George Calvert, a descendant of one of the Lords Baltimore, browsing in his park, and his great four-in-hand carriage was going in the lodge-gates from a state visit to the Custises.
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