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He walked away, and I returned up the path heavily, as if a cloud of terror and dole were visibly hanging over our happy Longfield. The doctor appeared; he went up to the sick lad; then he and Mr. Halifax were closeted together for a long time. After he was gone, John came into the kitchen, where Ursula sat with Walter on her knee.
John Halifax assisted her on horseback, took the bridle under one arm and gave the other to his wife. Thus they passed up the path, and out at the White Gate. I delayed a little while, listening to the wind, and to the prattle of the stream, that went singing along in daylight or in darkness, by our happy home at Longfield. And I sighed to myself, "Poor Lady Caroline!"
Perhaps this circumstance, that her fading away and her departure happened away from home, was the cause why her memory the memory of our living Muriel, in her human childhood afterwards clung more especially about the house at Longfield. The other children altered, imperceptibly, yet so swiftly, that from year to year we half forgot their old likenesses. But Muriel's never changed.
If, as I told you, we re-let Longfield for this one summer to Sir Ralph, we shall save enough to put the mill in thorough repair. If my landlord will not do it, I will; and add a steam-engine, too." Now the last was a daring scheme, discussed many a winter night by us three in Longfield parlour. At first, Mrs.
There were besides, particularly through the thick woods about Stanstead itself, innumerable cross-paths intersecting one another in all directions. The travellers had decided at the inn to take the road through Longfield; since, in spite of other disadvantages, it was the less frequented of the two, and they were anxious above all things to avoid attention.
It was not yet dark, though the moon was visible in the clear sky, and relieved, to find myself once more alone, I walked with purposely slow and leisure steps towards my home, rehearsing in my mind, with much genuine amusement, my recent brilliant and highly intellectual conversation with Miss Longfield.
A carriage overtook us here; in it were two gentlemen, one of whom bowed in a friendly manner to John. He returned it. "This is well; I shall have one honest gentleman to deal with to-day." "Who is he?" "Sir Ralph Oldtower, from whom I bought Longfield. An excellent man I like him even his fine old Norman face, like one of his knightly ancestors on the tomb in Kingswell church.
In addition to the four storming columns was the reserve, fifteen hundred strong, under Brigadier Longfield.
This might truly be termed a good hit. In the afternoon I went on shore at Adelaide Point, where, it is said, the Spaniards had a battery. Whether this be true or not, the spot is well adapted for one; it is now entirely covered over with remarkably thick brushwood, which Captain Owen has ordered to be cleared off, with the intention of forming a road, through the woods, to Longfield.
For, at Longfield, already we began to make a natural almanack and chronological table. "When the may was out" "When Guy found the first robin's nest" "When the field was all cowslips" and so on. "Is it absolutely necessary we should go?" said the mother, who had a strong home-clinging, and already began to hold tiny Longfield as the apple of her eye.
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