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Some day, when the rebellion is subdued, I mean to go and see Cora and Henry and his wife, added Ella, whose tinge of Americanism formed an amusing contrast with Dickie's colonial ease especially when she began to detail the discomforts of Massissauga, and he made practical suggestions for the remedies of each describing how mamma and he himself managed.
Ethel opened read ran out of the room without a word, and sought her father in his study, where she laid before him Tom's letter, written from Massissauga the day after his arrival. 'Dear Ethel, 'I have found my darling, but too late to arrest the disease the work of her brother's perverseness and wrong-headedness.
I had a confidence that I should have hunted down that fellow, and the sight of Portland and the accounts from Massissauga alike make one long to have one's hands on his throat; but that hope is ended now, and to loiter about Paris in search of him, when it it a plain duty to come away, would be one of the presumptuous acts that come to no good.
I believe there were more spaces than I can think of now, when I was very fairly happy, even at Pentonville; and at Portland all did well with me, till last spring, and then the news from Massissauga brought back all the sense of blood-guiltiness, and it was worse than ever. 'And that sense was just as morbid as your other horrible doubt, about which you asked me when we were coming home.
That is quite fixed; and I have had enough of playing third person, said Ella, with her precocious Western manner. 'You know I have all my own property, so I shall be on no one's hands! Oh, and Cora made her father buy all Ave's Massissauga shares at a dead loss to us of course. 'Well, said Gertrude, 'I am sorry Tom is not an American share-holder. It was such fun!
The chief hope of the family lay in the speculation in which Averil's means had been embarked, which gave them a right to their present domicile, and to a part of the uncleared waste around them; and would, when Massissauga should begin to flourish, place them in affluence.
Moreover, her father declared that the city of Massissauga would soon be considerable enough to invite every variety of minister to please every denomination of inhabitant. Averil felt that the seven miles off church was all she could reasonably hope for, and her mind was clear on that score, when Henry came to take her out walking for the sake of being able to talk more freely.
Five months had elapsed since the arrival of Averil in Massissauga months of anxiety and disappointment, which had sickened Henry of plans of farming, and lessened his hopes of practice. The same causes that affected him at New York told in Indiana; and even if he had been employed, the fees would have been too small to support the expense of horses.
I say, Ethel, what is become of the "Diseases of Climate?" he added, with a twinkle in his eye. 'In the nine beginnings. 'And how about the Massissauga Company? 'You heartless old worldly-minded father! said Ethel. 'When you take to prudence for Tom, what is the world coming to? 'Into order, said the Doctor, shaking himself into the coat she held for him.
And Henry, marvelling at her slowness of comprehension, made her understand that the advance of money, for the purchase at Massissauga, must come from her means. His own had been heavily drained by the removal, the long period of inaction, and moreover what remained had been embarked in shares in a company, absolutely certain to succeed, but where they were not at once available for sale.
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