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They were both young; quite pretty; very fashionably dressed; very silly in their expressions, and much alike, in every respect. After a few preliminary speeches, Mrs. Hilson remarked, that she was very glad Mrs. Wyllys had come to join their rustic circle. "Thank you," replied the lady; "Longbridge is a favourite place of mine; but I have not yet seen many traces of rusticity, here."
Independently of these consultations, and cares about her little cousin, there were other claims upon Elinor's attention at this time, and those the least romantic in the world. Within the last few weeks, all the men of Longbridge seemed to have their heads full of a new rail-road, one of the first that were made in this country.
After that you would stand or fall by your own ability. There's Senator Longbridge, for instance, and Claus Inskeep the street-car magnate, and Lane, and McChesney " He paused, with voice suspended. "I am sure I know none of them," she answered despondently. "It's not necessary. Do you know any one that knows them? or any one that knows any one else that knows them?" Edna shook her head.
He is a most worthy, excellent man of course, at my time of life, I shall not make a love-match. Can't you guess the individual one of my Longbridge neighbours?" "From Longbridge," said Miss Wyllys, not a little surprised. "Edward Tibbs, perhaps," she added, smiling. He was an unmarried man, and one of the Longbridge beaux. "Oh, no; how can you think me so silly, Agnes! I am ashamed of you!
After another silence, Elinor turned to Hazlehurst with an anxious look, saying: "And your other friends?" "All safe; love." "The crew too?" "One of the crew is lost; Black Bob, a sailor from Longbridge." "I remember him; he had no family I believe, Aunt," she said. "None, my child, that I have ever heard of." "The heaviest blow has fallen upon the Hubbards," said Harry.
Another son was educated by his rich Longbridge relative, kind Uncle Josie; another uncle, a poor old bachelor, known to the neighbourhood as Uncle Dozie, from a constant habit of napping, did his utmost, in paying the school-bills of his niece Catherine.
Ellsworth was obliged to leave Wyllys-Roof; he had done all he could at Longbridge, and there were still various matters to be looked after in Philadelphia. Mrs. Creighton accompanied her brother, and they were not to return to Wyllys-Roof until after the important question was decided. Hazlehurst was then to come with them; whether defeated or triumphant could not yet be known.
George Wyllys, that she should think the air of Longbridge did not agree with her children; and lamenting that she should not remain at Wyllys-Roof until November, according to her first intention. Charlie was deep in a volume of fine engravings. Young Taylor was standing; in a corner, looking handsome, but awkward, and out of place. Mr.
The speeches then followed. The first speaker, who seemed the business-man of the evening, gave some account of the statistics of the Society, concluding with a short address to those present, hoping they would, upon that occasion, enrol their names as Members of the Longbridge Temperance Society. The principal orator of the evening, Mr.
These Longbridge ladies generally kept with their own party, which was a large one. The Wyllyses were not sorry that they seldom met; for, little as they liked the sisters, they wished always to treat them civilly, on account of their father.
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