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She carried her doubts to Charles and Amabel, who both pronounced that the thought of going to Redclyffe seemed far worse for him than any degree of employment that occupation of the mind was the best thing for his spirits; and ended by recommending that Dr. Mayerne should be consulted. He was of the same opinion.
Morville would come to take her to Redclyffe, and she wanted to hear all about the great house, listening for him all the time, and I trying to quiet her, and telling her the longer he stayed the better chance there was. Then came a call for me, and down-stairs I found everything in confusion; the news had come I never knew how.
'You know, papa said something about your taking your reading-party to Redclyffe. 'True, but I don't think Markham would like it, and it would put old Mrs. Drew into no end of a fuss. 'Not like to have you? 'O yes, I should be all very well; but if they heard I was bringing three or four men with me, they would think them regular wild beasts. They would be in an awful fright.
'But I must give it up; it is earth after all, and looking back. Through the evening, he seemed to be dwelling on thoughts of his own, and only spoke to tell her of some message to friends at Redclyffe, or Hollywell, to mention little Marianne Dixon, or some other charge that he wished to leave.
The English have this advantage and know how to make use of it. They bring in these old, time-honored feasts all the past to sit down and take the stately refreshment along with them, and they pledge the historic characters in their wine. A printed bill of fare, in gold letters, lay by each plate, on which Redclyffe saw the company glancing with great interest.
Redclyffe had never been so quietly happy as now. He had, as it were, the quietude of the old man about him, and the freshness of his own still youthful years. The Warden was evidently very favorably impressed with his Transatlantic guest, and he seemed to be in a constant state of surprise to find an American so agreeable a kind of person. "You are just like an Englishman," he sometimes said.
The original legend had made such an impression on Redclyffe's childish fancy, that he became strangely interested in thus discovering it, or something remotely like it, in England, and being brought by such unsought means to reside so near it. Curious about the family to which it had occurred, he proceeded to examine its records, as given in the County History. The name was Redclyffe.
But Redclyffe was still more interested in observing in the corner a great spider, which really startled him, not so much for its own terrible aspect, though that was monstrous, as because he seemed to see in it the very great spider which he had known in his boyhood; that same monster that had been the Doctor's familiar, and had been said to have had an influence in his death.
Perhaps we may live to see the day when wise mammas, going through the list of nursery diseases which their children have had, will wind up triumphantly with, "Mumps, measles, chicken-pox, and they are all over with 'Amy Herbert, 'The Heir of Redclyffe, and the notion that they are going to be miserable for the rest of their lives!"
Redclyffe thanked him, and drank off the glass of wine, which was not very much to his taste; as new varieties of wine are apt not to be. All the conversation that had passed had been in a free, careless sort of way, without apparently much earnestness in it; for they were both men who knew how to keep their more serious parts within them.
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