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All this time Captain Brentwood had stood with his back against the chimney-piece, perfectly silent, having banished all expression from his countenance; now, however, Major Buckley brought up the Dean and introduced him: "My dear Brentwood, the Dean of B ; not Dean to us though, so much as our dear old friend Frank Maberly."
Since then Frank Maberly had been staying with his uncle, and, as he expressed it, "working the slums" at Exeter. Miss Thornton sat in the drawing-room at Drumston the day after Tom's visit to the Bishop, waiting dinner for the new Curate. Tom and she had been wondering how he would come. Miss Thornton said, probably in the Bishop's carriage; but Tom was inclined to think he would ride over.
So she advanced into the passage to meet the new-comer with one of her pleasantest smiles. "I must claim an old woman's privilege of introducing myself, Mr. Maberly," she said. "Your uncle was tutor to the B s, when I was governess to the D s; so we are old acquaintances." "Can you forgive me, Miss Thornton?" he said, "for running up to the house in this lunatic sort of way?
I am still half a school-boy, you know. What an old jewel she is!" he added to himself. Tom said: "May I show you your room, Mr. Maberly?" "If you please, do," said Frank; and added, "Get out, Fly; what are you doing here?" But Miss Thornton interceded for the dog, a beautiful little black and tan terrier, whose points Tom was examining with profound admiration. "That's a brave little thing, Mr.
As I raised the glass to my lips, I glanced across its brim, and again the same depression of the slender figure the same expression and mixture of fixed seriousness! Now, then, I at last had a certainty of gleaning some tidings of her. I saw Maberly standing by her side, and, the next morning, I questioned him closely, but warily, upon the subject.
"The living of Drumston, nephew, is in my gift; and if Mr. Thornton does not recover, as is very possible, I shall give it to you. I wish you, therefore, to go to Drumston, and become acquainted with your future parishioners. You will find Miss Thornton a most charming old lady." Frank Maberly was the second son of a country gentleman of good property, and was a very remarkable character.
I was getting won with this young gentleman, in spite of religious difference, when he chose to say that the parish had never been right since Maberly had had it, and that the Dissenters always raved about him to this day; whereby, he concluded, that Frank Maberly was far from orthodox.
Buckley says, laying her hand upon his arm, "It seems as if all things were arranged to make my husband and myself the happiest couple in the world. If we had been asked to-night, whom of all people in the world we should have been most glad to see as the new Dean, we should have answered at once, Frank Maberly; and here he is!" "Then, you did not know whom to expect," said Frank.
Captain Brentwood went back to Garoopna next morning; but Frank Maberly kept to his resolution of going over to see Mary; and, soon after breakfast, they were all equipped ready to accompany him, standing in front of the door, waiting for the horses. Frank was remarking how handsome Mrs. Buckley looked in her hat and habit, when she turned and said to him,
Then she went into the drawing-room, where, besides her father, were Major Buckley, Doctor Mulhaus, Frank Maberly, and the drunken doctor before spoken of, who had had the sublime pleasure of cutting a bullet from his old adversary's arm, and was now in a fair way to justify the SOBRIQUET I have so often applied to him. I myself also was sitting next the fire, alongside of Frank Maberly.
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