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The future is to be my affair if the past was yours." Then he went away, and she saw nothing of him for two days. On the second of them he dined with Lady Maria, and met some of the Percivals the father and mother, the Sinclairs, and Mr. Tompsett-King. After a week or ten days of courtship, she could hardly believe that their relations had ever been interrupted.
Sometimes Lena wished that she had been given a lump sum and allowed to browse alone, for she felt her taste pruned and pinioned by the very presence of Miss Elton, who, though she never ventured to criticize, had yet a depressing influence on Lena's exuberant fancies. Once, after such a silent sacrifice on her part, Madeline and she drove up to the Percivals' for five-o'clock tea.
This this little exhibition was not intended for an audience, but for my own private edification. It was unfortunate that the Percivals should have chosen such a moment for their first call. I was sorry for your discomfiture." "You oughtn't to have been! I meant to be naughty. Oh, you've scored scored all the way.
It was the question which accompanied every home plan, and on which hung a momentous importance, but the Percivals appeared quite taken aback by the suggestion. The girls stared, and their mother smilingly waved it aside. "Oh-h, I don't think we need trouble about that! It's only once a year, and we must do the thing well. If you have a suggestion, dear, please let us have it!"
Freke, "that she must by this time be cursedly tired of her visit to those stupid good people at Oakly-park, and never woman wanted an excuse to do any thing she liked: so trust to her own ingenuity to make some decent apology to the Percivals for running away from them.
The next morning, Captain Sinclair would have accompanied the Miss Percivals on their milking expedition, but as his services were required to haul up the fishing punt, he was obliged to go down, with all the rest of the men, to assist; Percival and John were the only ones left at home with Mrs. Campbell.
She appeared to hesitate, but Laura had little difficulty in persuading her to accept my offer. She accordingly went to prepare, while I ordered the dogcart to be got ready. Before setting out I arranged with Laura that as it might appear strange were I to insist on returning to dinner when she was alone at home with her father, I should, if invited, remain at the Percivals till evening.
The regret, growing into resolution, hastened her steps, that went unto the place devoted to the dead Percivals. It was in a corner, the corner wherein grew the pine-tree of the hills.
"Rebuild it!" was Darsie's instant and daring reply, whereat the farmers' daughters laughed en masse, and the Percivals looked haughtily displeased. "Father built it!" "Awfully good of him! And wicked of his architect. I shan't employ him to build my house!" "I think," said Noreen loftily, "that we had better confine ourselves to discovering the scheme of decoration.
The Youngers were from the city of Strasburg on the Rhine, descending from the ruling family of Strasburg when that was a free city. My sainted mother was a direct descendant from the Sullivans, Ladens and Percivals of South Carolina, the Taylors of Virginia, and the Fristoes of Tennessee.
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