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After a moment's consultation between the sisters, Kezia was told that she might return home, and the servant who accompanied the Miss Mohuns was sent to Raynham for the doctor. The next afternoon Lily was just setting out to inquire for Agnes when Lord Rotherwood arrived at the New Court with his sister.
Blithe Whit-Sunday came, the five Miss Mohuns appeared in white frocks, new bonnets were plenty, the white tippets of the children, and the bright shawls of the mothers, made the village look gay; Wat Greenwood stuck a pink between his lips, and the green boughs of hazel and birch decked the dark oak carvings in the church. And Whit-Monday came.
"The fun is," said Jane, "to remember how some of us Mohuns have sighed at Lily's having any yellow children, and, till we saw Stokesley specimens, wondering where the strain came from! As if it signified!" "It does in some degree," said Dolores; "something hereditary goes with the complexion." "I don't know," said Jane.
'I may have letters from whom I choose. 'My dear, that is not the custom in general with girls of your age, and I know your father would not wish it. Tell me, is there any one you have reason to expect to hear from? Dolores had an instinct that all the Mohuns were set against the person she was thinking of, but she had an answer ready, true, but which would serve her purpose.
'And still I have to tell the same sad tale Of wasted energies, and idle dreams. Devereux Castle now became the great resort of the Miss Mohuns. They were always sure of a welcome there. Lady Rotherwood liked to patronise them, and Florence was glad of their society.
If poor Uncle Alfred writes to me, Aunt Lilias will have the letter and read it, and the Mohuns are all so stuck up; they will despise him, and very likely she will never let me have the letter. 'Yes, but, dear, couldn't you write here, with my things, and tell him how it is, and tell him to write under cover to me? 'Dear Connie! How good you are! Yes, that would be quite delightful!
Then he resumed, in the same measured voice as before: "'You hear, he said. 'I tried to shield her, to take the blame meant to give you no inkling of this but she spoils all. To end this. I have offered you a mortal insult soiled an ancient and honorable name the last representative of the Mohuns has formed through me a degrading connection. I acknowledge all that.
He is said to have stayed at the "Dolphin" while it was the private residence of the Yonges. Close to the Axe and to the main line of the railway are the scanty ruins of Newenham Abbey, once of great renown. Founded in 1245 by the de Mohuns, it met with the usual fate at the Great Dispersal. A mile farther, on the Musbury road, is Ashe Farm, which once belonged to the Drake family.
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