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I do wish there were but a chance of it really I can't help it, mamma it would be so nice;" said the sanguine, kind-hearted Catherine. Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. Goldsmith. Accordingly, Mr. St. Leger, his objections having been overruled by Edgar, accepted the place offered him in General Melwyn's family.
I must beg of you to slip over a portion of time, and to suppose about two years passed over our heads, and we return to Lettice, who has passed that period at General Melwyn's. So useful, so cheerful, so thoroughly good, so sincerely pious, so generously disinterested she was; and the transformation she had accomplished was astonishing. And was she as happy herself as she made others?
Melwyn's enjoyment, she used to indulge herself with long walks through the beautiful surrounding country, accompanying the nurse and helping to carry the babe.
"I have more time than money," he said, with a gentle but very melancholy smile; "and, therefore, if you will give me leave, I would take the liberty of pointing out to you how you could help this poor woman. If if I knew...." "I live with General and Mrs. Melwyn I am Mrs. Melwyn's dame de compagnie," said Lettice, with simplicity. "And I am what ought to be Mr.
Thomas's curate," answered he, "but that I am too inefficient to merit the name. General Melwyn's family never attends the parish church, I think." "No; we go to the chapel of ease at Furnival's Green. It is five miles by the road to the parish church, and that road a very bad one. The general does not like his carriage to go there. "So I have understood; and, therefore, Mr.
Melwyn's new maid, a pretty young woman, in the lightest possible apology for a cap, trimmed with pink ribbons; the laundry-maid, so serious, and sitting stiff and starched as one of her own clear muslins; the cook and housemaid looking as attentive as they could; and the under-servants staring with vacant eyes eyes that looked as if they were ready to drop out of their heads; Mr.
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