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Upon some of the minor arrangements they and Mr. Carlyle were opposed, but the latter declined to give way. During his absence at Castle Marling, news had arrived from them they had acceded to all his terms, and would enter upon East Lynne as soon as it was convenient. Miss Carlyle was full of congratulations; it was off their hands, she said; but the fist letter Mr.
The excitement of his arrival had worn off, and she was looking herself again, pale and sad; he could not help observing that she was changed. "I cannot expect to look so well at Castle Marling as I did at East Lynne," she answered. "I trust it is a happy home to you?" said Mr. Carlyle, speaking upon impulse. She glanced up at him a look that he would never forget; it certainly told of despair.
He sets out upon his first tour, announcing that he does not write for farmers, of whom not one in five thousand reads anything, but for the country-gentlemen, who are the great improvers. Tull, who introduced turnips; Weston, who introduced clover; Lord Townshend and Allen, who introduced 'marling' in Norfolk, were all country-gentlemen, and it is from them that he expects improvement.
Carlyle's visit to Castle Marling, Barbara Hare called at Miss Carlyle's, and found them going to tea much earlier than usual. "We dined earlier," said Miss Corny, "and I ordered tea as soon as the dinner went away. Otherwise, Archibald would have taken none." "I am as well without tea. And I have a mass of business to get through yet."
He was standing at the window, his back towards them. "I suppose not," said the earl, answering himself, for he was in a fever of hurry to be off, like many others are when starting on a journey. "You will have no trouble whatever, my dear; only mind you get some refreshments in the middle of the day, for you won't be at Castle Marling before dinner-time. Tell Mrs.
But he was one who liked to fathom the depth of everything. "Who has been staying at Castle Marling since I left?" he asked sharply. "Mrs. Levison came down." "I alluded to gentlemen young men." "Only Francis Levison," she replied. "Francis Levison! You have never been so foolish as to fall in love with him?"
When I spoke to the old fellow of marrying Claudine he swore fiercely, and eight days after, he sent me to Porto on a schooner belonging to one of our neighbours, just to give me a change of air. I came back, at the end of six months, thinner than a marling spike, but more in love than ever. Recollections of Claudine scorched me like a fire.
"Perhaps you will put me in possession of the facts, and of your motives." "I warn you that the facts to you will not bear a pleasant sound, Lord Mount Severn." "Allow me to be the judge of that," said the earl. "Business took me to Castle Marling on Good Friday.
Isabel shook her head with a passing shudder. "Have strangers, here, with all that in papa's chamber!" she uttered. "Mrs. Ducie drove over yesterday, perhaps to remain I don't know; but I was afraid of questions, and would not see her. When I think of that I feel thankful that I am alone." The housekeeper stopped Mr. Carlyle as he was going out. "Sir, what is the news from Castle Marling?
She singled out one and hastened to open it, for it bore the Castle Marling post-mark. "It is Mrs. Vane's handwriting," she remarked to Mr. Carlyle. CASTLE MARLING, Saturday. "MY DEAR ISABEL I am dreadfully grieved and shocked at the news conveyed in Mr. Carlyle's letter to my husband, for he has gone cruising in his yacht, and I opened it.
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