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"I next suggested that they should study gardening; and that they should put themselves under the tuition of Lucilla, who is become the little Repton of the valley.
Repton smiled paternally at him before putting to him the few questions which the occasion demanded. He held George's father's letter between two fingers of his right hand, moving it gently in the air as he addressed the lad: "I am very glad to see you, George," he said, "in this old office. I've seen you here before, Chrm! as you know, but not on such important business, Chrm!"
An answer was returned to him at once that Mrs. Repton had given orders that she was not to be disturbed. Thresk however insisted: "Will you please give my name to her Henry Thresk," and he waited with his ear to the receiver for a century. At last a voice spoke to him, but it was again the voice of the servant.
In one letter Boniface thanks Eadburg for books and clothes, and asks if she will write out for him in gold letters the Epistles of S. Peter, that he may have the words of the Apostle before his eyes when he preaches. Repton was another double monastery under an abbess, though nothing is known of its foundation. Some information about it is gained from the Life of S. Guthlac by Felix.
Then the invitations were sent round, and very neatly were they penned by Susie Rushworth and Olive Repton. It was impossible to ask all the girls of the school; but a select list from the girls in the upper school was carefully made, each Speciality being consulted on this point. Martha West, who was now a full-blown member, suggested Sibyl Ray at once. Fanny gave a little frown of disapproval.
"I am very glad," he said cordially as once more he rose. "But you shall sit next to Mrs. Repton to-night," said Mrs. Carruthers. "And she will tell you more." "Thank you," answered Thresk. "I only wished to know that things are going well with Mrs. Ballantyne that was all." Mrs. Carruthers kept her promise. She went in herself with Henry Thresk, as she had always meant to do, but she placed Mrs.
You went to Chitipur, I know. From your presence here I know too that you found them there." "No," said Thresk, "I didn't." He sat down and looked straight into Jane Repton's eyes. "I had a stroke of luck. I found them in camp." Jane Repton understood all that the last two words implied. "I should have wished that," she answered, "if I had dared to think it possible. You talked with Stella?"
No answer was returned to him for a few moments and then it was Repton himself who spoke. "Yes, yes," he said, and he got up from the sofa. "I think we had better have some light," he added in a strange indifferent voice. He turned the light on in the central chandelier, leaving the corners of the room in shadow, like the parallel forced its way into Thresk's mind like the tent in Chitipur.
"They did?" said Mr. Repton drily. "Yes," said George, "they did." Then there was a silence for a space of at least three minutes. "My dear young man," said Mr. Repton, rising, "do you feel any aptitude for a City career?" "None," said George decisively. "Pray," said Mr. "Yes, certainly," said George confidently. "And what is that?" said Mr. Repton, his smile beginning again.
Finding therefore no object in that place, either for their rapine or violence, they suddenly turned back upon Mercia, in a quarter where they expected to find it without defence; and fixing their station at Repton in Derbyshire, they laid the whole country desolate with fire and sword. W. Malm. lib. 2. cap. 2. Ingulph. p. 869. Ibid. p. 22. Chron. Sax. p. 82.
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