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When she found that her father had been the guest of the Maxwells and that they had played the part of good Samaritans to him in the tent in which the Senior Warden had obliged them to take refuge, she was thoroughly mortified, and there was a struggle between false pride and proper gratitude. "It is very awkward, is it not, Mrs. Burke?" she said. "I ought certainly to call on Mrs.
Did he not think it had all begun again? Yes, George had some reason to think so. "If you can do anything for us " "Of course! but what can I do? As we all know, Ancoats does not sit still to be scolded." Their colloquy lasted only a minute or two; yet when it was over, and the Maxwells had gone, George was left with a vivid impression of the great man's quiet strength and magnanimity.
Maxwell, in some anxiety, caught his wife's arm, and made her pause till his eye should be once more certain of the path. Meanwhile Ancoats and Tressady walked quickly back to the lawn, Ancoats talking and laughing with unusual vigour. The Maxwells did not hurry themselves. As they emerged from the wood Marcella slipped her hand into her husband's. It was her characteristic caress.
He saw some of it in the company of a lady rent-collector, an old friend of the Maxwells, who had charge of several tenement blocks where the trouser and vest trade was largely carried on; and he welcomed the chance of one or two walks in quest of law-breaking workshops with a young inspector, who could not say enough in praise of the Bill.
He left the Maxwells to a certain embarrassment in each other's presence. Louise was the first to break the silence that weighed upon them both. "Brice, did you decide that way to please me?" "I am not such a fool," said Maxwell. "Because," she said, "if you did, you did very wrong, and I don't believe any good could come of it."
It was a white and scared Virginia who listened to Hepsey's account of all that had happened an account which neither over-stated the Bascoms' debt to the Maxwells nor spared Virginia's guilty conscience.
He mentioned a curious thing that three brothers of the Johnstone family, on whose descendants the male representative of these great Border chiefs devolved, were forced to fly to the north in consequence of their feuds with the Maxwells, and agreed to change their names.
The latter possibility was bad enough, but it wasn't to be compared to the former; and oh, how I prayed yes, I DID pray about it that he would go right away. But Providence had other views for me. Cecil Fenwick didn't go away. He stayed right on in Avonlea, and the Maxwells blossomed out socially in his honor and tried to give him a good time. Mrs. Maxwell gave a party for him.
From the Cresswells and the Maxwells and others came loads of clothes for washing and mending. The Tolliver girls had simple dresses made, embroidery was ordered from town, and soon there would be the gardens and cotton fields. Mrs. Cresswell would saunter down of mornings.
Eustace de Maxwell, in the time of Robert de Bruce, was among those patriots who adhered to the Scottish King. The Castle of Carlaverock, one of the most ancient possessions of the brave Maxwells, stands a memento, in its noble ruins, of the disinterested loyalty of its owners. The remains of Carlaverock afford but a slight notion of its former strength.
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