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Updated: May 16, 2025
'I know it, I did once want to see them married; they have had a slight quarrel, and it will soon be made up again, unless she spoke as if she had only half attended to Manston's last statement. 'He is already engaged to be married to somebody else, said the steward. 'Pooh! said she, 'you mean to his cousin at Peakhill; that's nothing to help us; he's now come home to break it off.
There he died soon after, and though comparatively a poor man, he left his daughter sufficiently well provided for as a modest fundholder and claimant of sundry small sums in dividends to maintain herself as mistress at Peakhill. At Cytherea's knock an inner door was heard to open and close, and footsteps crossed the passage hesitatingly.
She then turned towards Peakhill Cottage, the residence of Miss Hinton, who lived there happily enough, with an elderly servant and a house-dog as companions. Her father, and last remaining parent, had retired thither four years before this time, after having filled the post of editor to the Casterbridge Chronicle for eighteen or twenty years.
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