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She also had come to take a proprietary interest in Septimus. "He might stay with us in Nunsmere. What do you think, Turner?" "I think, ma'am," said Turner, "that would be the least improper arrangement." "He can have Cousin Jane's room," mused Zora, knowing that Cousin Jane would fly at her approach. "And I'll see, ma'am, that he comes down to his meals regular," said Turner.
The consequence was that after a sleepless night he bolted like a rabbit to his burrow at Nunsmere. At any rate, the mission of the dog's tail was accomplished. His bolt took place on Friday. On Saturday morning he was awakened by Wiggleswick. The latter's attire was not that of the perfect valet.
It ran: "DEAR MRS. MIDDLEMIST: "I don't let the grass grow under my feet. I have bought Penton Court. I have also started a campaign which will wipe the Jebusa Jones people off the face of the earth they blacken. I hope you are finding a vocation. When I am settled at Nunsmere we must talk further of this.
Should a roisterer cross the common singing a song at half-past nine at night, all Nunsmere hears it and is shocked if not frightened to the extent of bolting doors and windows, lest the dreadful drunken man should come in. In a cottage on the common, an old one added to by the local architect, with a front garden and a red-tiled path, dwelt Mrs.
How anybody can stay in Paris this weather unless they are obliged to is a mystery." "Why do you stay?" asked Septimus. "I'm not staying. I'm passing through on my way to Switzerland to look after the Cure there. But I thought I'd look you up. I was on my way to you. I was in Nunsmere last week and took Wiggleswick by the throat and choked your address out of him. The Hôtel Godet.
Only a few visits to London, where she had consorted somewhat gaily with Emmy's acquaintances, had marked their flight, and the gentle fingers of Nunsmere had graduated the reawakening of her nostalgia for the great world. She spoke now and then of visiting Japan and America and South Africa, somewhat to her mother's consternation; but no irresistible force drove her thither.
"I love Nunsmere," said the Literary Man from London. "It is a spot where faded lives are laid away in lavender." "I'm not a faded life, and I'm not going to be laid away in lavender," retorted Zora Middlemist. She turned from him and handed cakes to the Vicar.
It would have made them quite impossible." The energy with which she licked and closed the envelope was remarkable but unnecessary. Things happen slowly at Nunsmere from the grasping of an idea to the pace of the church choir over the hymns. Life there is no vulgar, tearing two-step, as it is in Godalming, London, and other vortices of human passions, but the stately measure of a minuet.
She was tired and disheartened at finding herself no nearer to the heart of things than when she had left Nunsmere. Her attitude toward the once unspeakable sex had imperceptibly changed. She no longer blazed with indignation when a man made love to her. She even found it more agreeable than looking at cataracts or lunching with ambassadors. Sometimes she wondered why.
I could have broken my journey or at least asked them to meet me at the Gare du Nord. But why aren't they in England?" "I didn't bring them with me." She laughed again at his tone, suspecting nothing. "You speak as if you had accidentally left them behind, like umbrellas. Did you?" Turner came up, attended by a porter with the hand baggage. "Are you going on to Nunsmere to-night, ma'am?"
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