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Updated: June 16, 2025
Hitherto at Nethercoats his little smoking-room, his books, and his plants had been everything to him. Now he began to surround himself with an infinity of feminine belongings, and to promise himself an infinity of feminine blessings, wondering much that he should have been content to pass so long a portion of his life in the dull seclusion which he had endured.
Her thoughts travelled off to the sweetness of that home at Nethercoats, to the excellence of that master who might have been hers; and then in an agony of despair she told herself that she had been an idiot and a fool, as well as a traitor. What had she wanted in life that she should have thus quarrelled with as happy a lot as ever had been offered to a woman?
He had already heard from Mr Vavasor that Alice had discovered how impossible it was that she should marry her cousin, and, in his quiet, patient, enduring way, was beginning to feel confident that he would, at last, carry his mistress off with him to Nethercoats.
I don't say but what Nethercoats may be a kind of heaven, but then one doesn't wish one's friend that distant sort of happiness.
Alice could not act the lie which now seemed to be incumbent on her. She could not let him talk of Nethercoats as though it were to be her future home. She made the struggle, and she found that she could not do it. She was unable to find the words which should tell no lie to the ear, and which should yet deceive him. "Kate may still live with me," she said slowly.
His father had left to him an income of some fifteen hundred a year, and with this he sat himself down, near to his college friends, near also to the old cathedral which he loved, in the house which his father had built. But though Nethercoats possessed no beauty of scenery, though the country around it was in truth as uninteresting as any country could be, it had many delights of its own.
"He will like it better, I dare say, if you will sit upon his knee. Some penitents do, you know. And how happy you will be! He'll never explain the sugar-duties to you, and there'll be no Mr Bott at Nethercoats." They sat together the whole morning, while Mr Palliser was seeing to the springs and cushions, and by degrees Alice began to enjoy her happiness.
"I don't think," he went on to say, "that you would let that consideration stand in your way, if on other grounds you were willing to become my wife." "What consideration?" "Because Nethercoats is not so pretty as Lucerne." "It would have nothing to do with it," said Alice. "It should have nothing to do with it." "Nothing; nothing at all," repeated Alice. "Will you come, then?
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