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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I want nothing with you, except to know whether you have seen Benson." "Where should I see Benson? What do I know of Benson's doings?" "Of course not such a secret old fist as he is! I want some one to tell him to order Lady Blandish's carriage to be sent round to the park-gates. I thought he might be round your way over there I came upon him accidentally just now in Abbey-wood.
In passing through the park-gates of Laxton, on my departure northward, powerfully, and as if "with the might of waters," my mind turned round to contemplate that strange enlargement of my experience which had happened to me within the last three months.
"Get my carriage sent round to meet me at the park-gates." "Won't you?" "I want to be alone." Adrian bowed and left her. She was still sitting with her hands clasped round one knee, gazing towards the dim ray-strewn valley. "An odd creature!" muttered the wise youth. "She's as odd as any of them. She ought to be a Feverel. I suppose she's graduating for it.
'Now. At once. 'No. To-morrow. 'To-morrow morning? 'Yes. You can await me at your park-gates at eleven. 'Then you'll lunch with me? 'No.... Perhaps. 'You're an angel! And he trudged home on the air. 'If a woman will listen! his heart sang. 'If a woman will come to see your garden! That evening a servant handed him a letter.
Lady Edbury was of the Bolton blood, none of the tamest; they breed good cavalry men. She ran away from her husband once. The old lord took her back. "It 's at your peril, mind!" says she. Well, Roy hears by-and-by of afresh affair. He mounted horse; he was in the saddle, I've been assured, a night and a day, and posted himself between my lady's park-gates, and the house, at dusk.
"I can't show here. But I'll wait inside the park-gates to take you back." "You needn't wait," Juliet said. "I shall spend the night at the Court unless I am wanted here." She descended with the words. She had never liked Jack Green, and she was thankful that the rapid journey was over. She heard him shoot up the drive as she went up the schoolhouse path. In the dark little porch she hesitated.
The sky had veiled itself since the morning, and it was hardly more than twilight when they entered the park-gates, but still Gwendolen, looking out of the carriage-window as they drove rapidly along, could see the grand outlines and the nearer beauties of the scene the long winding drive bordered with evergreens backed by huge gray stems: then the opening of wide grassy spaces and undulations studded with dark clumps; till at last came a wide level where the white house could be seen, with a hanging wood for a back-ground, and the rising and sinking balustrade of a terrace in front.
Ellen, at any rate, was not sorry when the park-gates were reached. A plentiful supply of buns was procured, and the children, with shrill screams and whoops of delight, started off for the ducks and the water. "Oh, dear," cried the nursemaid, quite dismayed at suddenly finding herself alone with the governess, "they'll lose themselves, Ma'm'selle!
Her lips were shut, her eyelids nervously tremulous. They were soon in the warm sweet open air, and they walked without an interchange of a syllable through the park into the white hawthorn lane, glad to breathe. Her nostrils took long draughts of air, but of the change of, scene she appeared scarcely sensible. At the park-gates, she said: 'There is no necessity four your coming.
He did not leave me till we had nearly reached the park-gates: he had certainly stepped a little out of his way to accompany me so far, for he now went back and disappeared down Moss Lane, the entrance of which we had passed some time before.
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