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"Mamma has been with Lady Markland several times," said Minnie, with a mixture of disapproval and satisfaction. "Naturally, we have been so much thrown together since " "To be sure. What a sad thing! twice in one house, within a week, was it not, the two deaths?" "Just a week," said Chatty, who loved to be exact.
Markland, and he entered into a formal agreement to invest the sum of forty thousand dollars in the proposed scheme: ten thousand dollars to be paid down at once, and the balance at short dates. He remained away two days, and then returned to make immediate arrangements for producing the money.
Do, love." And Aunt Grace tried to draw the head of Fanny close to her bosom. But her niece struggled to be free, answering, as she did so "Don't question me now, Aunt Grace, please. Only let me go to mother. I want to see her." "She is not in her room," said Miss Markland. "Are you certain?" "Oh, yes. I have just come from there." "Where is she, then?" "In the library, with your father."
"No, Agnes," was replied with emphasis. "What is lacking?" "Contentment." "Edward!" There came a quick flush to the brow of Mrs. Markland. "I cannot help the fact, Agnes," said Mr. Markland. "For months I have suffered from a growing dissatisfaction with the fruitless life I am leading." "And yet with what a fond desire we looked forward to the time when we could call a spot like this our own!
And so, as we have seen, Edward Markland, amid all the winning blandishments that surrounded him on the day when introduced to the reader, neither saw, felt, nor appreciated what, as looked to from the past's dim distance, formed the Beulah of his hopes. A FEW minutes after Mrs.
Allison, I grow more and more wearied with my inactive life, and find relief in any new direction of thought." "You do not design re-entering into business?" "I have no such present purpose." Mr. Markland stepped from his carriage, as he thus spoke, and told the driver to go forward to the house. "Though it is impossible to say where we may come out when we enter a new path.
Markland uttered the closing sentence half in reverie; for her thoughts were away from the sick woman and the humble apartment in which she was seated. There was an abstracted silence of a few moments, and she said: "Speaking of your daughter and her husband, Mrs. Elder; they are poor, as I understand you?" "Oh yes, ma'am; it is hand-to-mouth with them all the time.
Don't you see," said Lady Markland, with a smile in which there was a kind of despair, "that though I am not old, as you say, I am on your level rather than on his, that you can understand better than he?"
In the majority of cases it is a hard thing to understand how a spirit, formed apparently for nothing but the uses of earth, should be able to adapt itself in a moment to those occupations and interests which are congenial to another state of existence; and with young Lord Markland this was peculiarly the case.
Markland, they seemed to shut him out, as it were, from the old world in which he had hoped, and suffered, and struggled so vainly; and to open before his purer vision a world of higher beauty. In this world were riches for the toiler, and honour for the noble riches and honour far more to be desired than the gems and gold of earth or its empty tributes of praise.
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