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Updated: June 27, 2025
She was now in her usual place a deep window-seat intently occupied with Amy Robsart's sorrows, when her father came to read what he had written in answer to Nina. If it was very brief it was very affectionate.
It was on a hill, and the view from the front looked over a lovely expanse of buttercup meadows, and the river beyond. Bobby's little face looked solemn for his years as he turned and faced his aunt. 'It's a beautiful place. Miss Robsart's sister will be able to paint her trees again. I fink, Aunt Is'bel, you'll be filling us too full of happiness.
When they reached home Margot had to be told the whole story, and the next morning it was poured into Miss Robsart's ears, and then an expedition was made to Curly's crossing to tell him about it. 'For acourse you ought to know, said Bobby, 'for you saved Nobble's life, and he saved father's, so it's got to do with you as well as me.
And yet he had loved her once, more truly perhaps than he could now pretend to love the Queen. It was some ten years since, as a lad of eighteen, he had taken Sir John Robsart's nineteen-year-old daughter to wife. She had brought him considerable wealth and still more devotion.
The next morning found them early travellers. And, not to fatigue the reader with unnecessary particulars, they traversed without adventure the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset, and about noon of the third day after Tressilian's leaving Cumnor, arrived at Sir Hugh Robsart's seat, called Lidcote Hall, on the frontiers of Devonshire.
Allonby, then his eyes met Miss Robsart's and they both laughed aloud. 'I must explain myself, she said, checking her laugh and speaking hastily and nervously 'I met your little boy and girl in a 'bus and heard them say they had come out to look for a governess. Of course they had not the smallest idea how to set about it, so I took them to a very good registry.
It was a quiet little street leading out of Kensington High Street. She took them upstairs to a very pretty sitting-room with three large windows in it, one of which was filled with flowers and plants. By the fireside in an invalid chair was Miss Robsart's sister. The children felt shy of her at first, but she had such a bright smile and voice that they soon became at ease with her.
And Bobby took hold of Miss Robsart's hand confidingly. 'Me and Nobbles likes you 'ticularly, he said. Mr. Allonby had been considerably startled by many things that the children had said and done, but he was never more so than when they appeared before him in the sitting-room with a strange young lady. He had not been in long, and thought they were with Margot.
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