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Updated: May 16, 2025
'But I don't see how anything can hender the wedden now. 'Avice, you know, had fancies; at least one fancy for another man; a young fellow of five-and-twenty. And she's been very secret and odd about it. I wish she had raved and cried and had it out; but she's been quite the other way. I know she's fond of him still. 'What that young Frenchman, Mr. Leverre o' Sandbourne?
Now, though the Sandbournites hate the Northbournites as the Guelphs the Ghibellines, though the two towns are at advertisemental war, the favourite pleasure drive of the char-a-bancs of Sandbourne is to Northbourne, and vice versa. It is chosen simply because the road is the best thereabouts, and the gradients the easiest for the horses. "Sandbourne-on-Sea?" cried Jones. "Yes," said the driver.
Why will you persist in such a life?" "My dear Lord de Burgh, don't you know that it is not always easy to judge or to act for another? "Which means I am to mind my own business?" "You have a very unvarnished style of stating facts." "I know I have." A short pause, and he began again. "Where are those boys now? "At Sandbourne. But, alas! I am going to take them away to-morrow.
So much occupied was the pretty little woman that May was nearly over before she could find time to accept her sister-in-law's repeated invitation to Cliff Cottage. "I am going down to Sandbourne on Friday," she said to De Burgh one evening as she was waiting for her carriage after a musical party at Lady Mary Vincent's. "Indeed! I thought you were going last Monday."
"They are still at Sandbourne; but they leave, I am sorry to say, at Easter." "Oh, they do! It is an awfully expensive school. Are you quite sure, Katherine, they will not send in the bill to me?" "Quite sure, Ada, for I have paid in advance." "That was really very thoughtful, dear.
The carriage and horses being again ready, away they drove at once, both having by this time grown too restless to spend in Anglebury a minute more than was necessary. The hostler and his lad had taken the jaded Sandbourne horses to the stable, rubbed them down, and fed them, when another noise was heard outside the yard; the omnibus had returned from meeting the train.
"And shall we come to stay at Miss Payne's for the Easter holidays?" cried the boys in chorus, as Katherine took leave of them the next day. "I hope so, dears, but I am not sure." "Then will you come down to Sandbourne? That would be jolly." "I cannot promise, Cecil. We will see." "But, auntie, we'll not have to go to Castleford?" "Why? Would you not like to go?" "No. Would you, Charlie?
Pierston paused, but as Ruth did not ask any question she presently resumed her self-relieving murmur: 'How Miss Avice got to know the young man was in this way. When Mrs. Leverre's husband died she came from Jersey to live at Sandbourne; and made it her business one day to cross over to this place to make inquiries about Mr. Jocelyn Pierston.
She vanished in the mist towards the left, and the loiterers in the hut began to move and open the door, remarking, 'Now then for Wyndway House, a change of clothes, and a dinner. The last light of a winter day had gone down behind the houses of Sandbourne, and night was shut close over all.
What a difference, poor Katherine thought, between the present and the past! quite as great as between the price of Sandbourne and Wandsworth. There was a certain rough and ready tone about the latter establishment which distressed her; yet the school-master's wife seemed a kindly, motherly woman, and the urchins she saw running about the playground looked ruddy and happy enough.
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