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The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence. Mr. Raymount, then, was not the man to take that care of his daughter which people of the world think necessary.
For she did not like to read Gartley's letters before her mother not from shyness, but from shame: she would have liked ill to have her learn how poor her Gartley's utterances were upon paper. But ere she was six slow steps away, she turned at a cry from her mother. "Good heavens, what can it be? Something has happened to him!" said Mrs. Raymount. Her face was white almost as the paper she held.
Raymount the kind of soil in which this human plant had been reared, and saw more danger ahead.
Nothing was too serious for her in any place. She was indeed a peculiar girl the more the pity for the many that made her so! "Let us go and see the octopus," said Vavasor. They went, and Mr. Raymount slowly followed them. He had not heard the last turn of their conversation.
Corney's weakest point, next to his heart, was his legs, which perhaps accounted for his worship of Mr. Vavasor's calves, in themselves nothing remarkable. He was already glancing stolen looks at these objects of his jealous admiration when the rest reached the landing, and Mr. Raymount, willing to know his son's friend, desired Corney to introduce him.
"Come out of that," he shouted, and made his way through the company as fast as he could. Vavasor drew back, and stood like a sentinel on guard. Hester resumed her seat at the piano. Blaney, fancying he had gained his point, and that, if he began before Mr. Raymount reached him, he would be allowed to end in peace, again got his mouth into position, and began to howl.
One lovely evening in the beginning of June, when her turn had come to get away a little earlier, Amy Amber thought with herself she would at last make an effort to find Miss Raymount. In the hurry of escaping from Burcliff she left her address behind, but had long since learned it from a directory, and was now sufficiently acquainted with London to know how to reach Addison square.
"Oh, Miss Raymount!" cried Amy joyfully, "is it indeed you? Are you come at last? I thought I was never to see you any more!" "You bewilder me," said Hester. "How do you come to be here? I don't understand." "He brought me here." "Who brought you here?" "Why, miss!" exclaimed Amy, as if hearing the most unexpected of questions, "who should it be?" "I have not the slightest idea," returned Hester.
Raymount had known his grandfather a little in the way of business, and was the more interested in him. I may mention here that Corney soon began to show a practical interest in the place first in the look of it its order and tidiness, and then in its yield, beginning to develop a faculty for looking after property. Next he took to measuring the land.
Raymount perceived that no amount of their cleaning could take away its dirty look, and countermanding and postponing their proceedings, committed the dingy place to painters and paperhangers, under whose hands it was wonderful to see how gradually it put on a gracious look fit to welcome the human race withal.
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