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Updated: June 23, 2025
It was, I say, at that unhappy period of our history, that towards the autumn of a particular year, the Parliament forces sat down before Sherton Castle with over seven thousand foot and four pieces of cannon.
By the time that they emerged upon a glade it rained heavily. "This is awkward," said Grace, with an effort to hide her concern. Winterborne stopped. "Grace," he said, preserving a strictly business manner which belied him, "you cannot go to Sherton to-night." "But I must!" "Why? It is nine miles from here. It is almost an impossibility in this rain."
His search-party, too, had looked awkward there, having rushed to the task of investigation some in their shirt sleeves, others in their leather aprons, and all much stained just as they had come from their work of barking, and not in their Sherton marketing attire; while Creedle, with his ropes and grapnels and air of impending tragedy, had added melancholy to gawkiness.
"But you speak in quite an unhappy way," she returned, coming up close to him with the most winning of the many pretty airs that appertained to her. "Don't you think you will ever be happy, Giles?" He did not reply for some instants. "When the sun shines on the north front of Sherton Abbey that's when my happiness will come to me!" said he, staring as it were into the earth.
The carrier had come in from Sherton Abbas at that moment, and guessing that I was bound for this place for I think he knew me he asked me to bring on a dressmaker's parcel for Sally that was marked "immediate." My wife had walked on with the children. 'Twas a flimsy parcel, and the paper was torn, and I found on looking at it that it was a thick warm gown.
No intelligence of any kind was gained till they met a woodman of Delborough, who said that he had seen a lady answering to the description her father gave of Grace, walking through the wood on a gentleman's arm in the direction of Sherton. "Was he clutching her tight?" said Melbury. "Well rather," said the man. "Did she walk lame?" "Well, 'tis true her head hung over towards him a bit."
The fact is, I never cared much for abstruse studies." "I am so glad to hear you say that. And those other books those piles of old plays what good are they to a medical man?" "None whatever!" he replied, cheerfully. "Sell them at Sherton for what they will fetch." "And those dreadful old French romances, with their horrid spellings of 'filz' and 'ung' and 'ilz' and 'mary' and 'ma foy?"
He took it into the spar-house before he broke the seal, and those who were there gathered round him while he read, Grace looking in at the door. The letter was not from Mrs. Charmond herself, but her agent at Sherton. Winterborne glanced it over and looked up. "It's all over," he said. "Ah!" said they altogether. "Her lawyer is instructed to say that Mrs.
Beaucock will go with me, and we shall get the best advice as soon as we possibly can. Beaucock is a thorough lawyer nothing the matter with him but a fiery palate. I knew him as the stay and refuge of Sherton in knots of law at one time." Winterborne's replies were of the vaguest. The new possibility was almost unthinkable by him at the moment.
Having had occasion to take off the new gloves she had bought to come home in, she held out to him a hand graduating from pink at the tips of the fingers to white at the palm; and the reception formed a scene, with the tree over their heads, which was not by any means an ordinary one in Sherton Abbas streets.
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