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Nuttie thought that she knew what was the impulse that had actuated him, and felt a pleasant elation and self-consciousness even while she repressed a sigh of pity for herself and for him. Altogether the dip into the Micklethwayte world was delightful, but when Mr.
'Do you mean it, aunt? 'Mean it? Don't you see your uncle advancing down the road there accosting the clergyman what's his name either Towers or Spires something ecclesiastical I know. We only waited to reconnoitre and see whether the numbers were unmanageable. 'And yet he does not want to sit for Micklethwayte? 'So you think no one can be neighbourly except for electioneering!
She resumed her Sunday-school classes, and though she talked at first of their raciness and freedom, she soon longed after the cleanliness, respectfulness, and docility of the despised little Bridgefordites, and uttered bitter things of Micklethwayte turbulence, declaring perhaps not without truth that the children had grown much worse in her absence. And as Mr.
Was not their society at Micklethwayte equal in good manners to any, and superior, far superior, in goodness and intelligence to these stupid fashionable people, who undervalued all her real useful acquirements, and cared for nothing but trumpery music. The carriage entered the park, and Nuttie saw lake and woods from a fresh point of view.
Her parents were to return on Thursday evening, and she made up her mind that, unless she were fully reassured as to Miss Headworth's state, she would go off at once to Micklethwayte before any one could gainsay her. She had plenty of money, and she consulted the time-table in the hall before going upstairs.
And her aunt and cousin and this young man all evidently had their hearts in it! For Nuttie though her new world had put the old one apparently aside had plunged into all the old interests, and asked questions eagerly, and listened to their answers, as if Micklethwayte news was water to the thirsty.
But perhaps, since Mark Egremont had really been so generous in hunting up the cousin who was displacing him, she was bound in duty to marry him; perhaps he reckoned on her doing so. She would be generous in her turn, give up all the wealth to him, and return to do and be everything to Micklethwayte. How they would admire and bless her.
'And I have no right to anything in my father's lifetime, though I have no doubt he would give me up my share of my mother's portion about £3000. Now this is what has occurred to me: In the place where I found my uncle's wife Micklethwayte, close to Monks Horton there's a great umbrella factory, with agencies everywhere. There are superior people belonging to it.
No. 2, also from Micklethwayte, instantly set up a young man, highly respectable, and ready to marry on the spot, as they did, though their united ages don't amount to thirty-nine.
Please God, she and the little one can stand it for a time, and I think she has a spring within her that will; then, as he saw tears in his cousin's eyes, he added, 'Don't be unhappy about it, Nuttie; I have had it in my mind ever so long to tell you that the finding you at Micklethwayte was the best thing that ever happened to me!
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