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"If you hadn't fifteen years' start of me I'd give you a run for your money!" exclaimed Carnaby with a daring look. While these incidents were taking place at the Manor House, village life at Wittisham had been stirring for hours. Thin blue threads of smoke were rising from the other cottages into the windless air: only from Nurse Prettyman's there was none.
Other men can take their wives half over the world; but you think it quite enough to bring me down here to this hole of a place, where I know every pebble on the beach like an old acquaintance where there's nothing to be seen but the same machines the same jetty the same donkeys the same everything. But then, I'd forgot; Margate has an attraction for you Miss Prettyman's here.
Prettyman's assumption of owning the plum tree; she was outraged at your valiant espousing of your nurse's cause." "I see; we have simply made her more determined in her injustice." "Now it is all very well for you to show your mettle," Lavendar went on, "for you to endure your aunt's displeasure rather than give up a cause you know to be just; but look where it lands us."
Although, as has been said, she understood no more than she ought to have understood from Miss Prettyman's account of the conversation with Major Grantly, still, innocent as she was, she had understood much. She knew that the man loved her, and she knew also that she loved the man.
"Quack, quack, quack!" it said, waddling off angrily as Lavendar approached. At the sound of the duck's raucous voice both the women looked up. "Is this Mrs. Prettyman's cottage, ma'am?" Lavendar asked with his charming smile. "Yes, sir, 't is indeed, and who may you be, if I may be so bold as to ask?" "I'm Mr. Lavendar, Mrs. de Tracy's lawyer, Mrs. Prettyman.
Prettyman's death to the lady of the Manor now lay before Lavendar and his companion, and the thought of it weighed upon their spirits as they crossed the river. Carnaby also must be told. How would he take it? Robinette, still under the shock of the plum tree's undoing, expected perhaps some further exhibition of youthful callousness, but Lavendar knew better.
I daresay you'd like to see me in ploughman's boots; 'twould be no matter to you how I disfigured myself. Miss Prettyman's foot, NOW, would be another thing no doubt. "I thought when you would make me leave home I thought we were coming here on pleasure: but it's always the way you embitter my life. The sooner that I'm out of the world the better. What do you say?
"The swelling of Jordan," as Robinette called the rising tide, was over; now the glassy water reflected every leaf and twig from the trees that hung above its banks and dipped into it here and there. Mooring his boat at the landing, Mark sauntered up to Mrs. Prettyman's cottage, and having tapped lightly at the door to let Mrs.
Prettyman's cottage under the circumstances, so it seemed best to him that the sale should not take place, and he prevented it in the directest and simplest way that occurred to him. It's like some of the things that men have done to please God, Mrs. Robin," Mark added, smiling, "and thought they were doing it, too! But Carnaby only wanted to please you!"
Caudle, that I know very well how to take care of my family without Mrs. Prettyman's advice. Mrs. Prettyman, indeed! I only wish she'd come here, that I might tell her so! Mrs. Prettyman! But, perhaps she'd better come and take care of your house for you! Oh, yes! I've no doubt she'd do it much better than I do MUCH. No, Caudle!
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