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"She has not told us with certainty," said Nora; "but I feel sure that she will stay. Papa thinks she ought to go with them to London." "Your papa seems to have two very intractable daughters," said Caroline. "As for me," declared Nora, solemnly, "nothing shall make me go back to the Islands, unless Mr. Stanbury should tell me to do so." "And they start at the end of July?"
Now, there is the Widow Stanbury, willing and waiting, you know, and a dozen others." I turned a flashing eye upon him that silenced him. "You know better than that," I said, in suppressed tones, hoarse with anger. "Better let that subject rest hereafter, unless, indeed, your object is feud with me.
Aunt Stanbury had consented to Priscilla coming to the Close, even though it was not the day appointed for such visits; but the walk had been preferred, and Dorothy felt that she would be able to ask for counsel from the only human being to whom she could have brought herself to confide the fact that a gentleman was expected to ask her to marry him.
On the very Monday on which they went, Priscilla sent a note on to her sister, in which no special allusion was made to Aunt Stanbury, but which was no doubt written with the intention that the news should be communicated. "Gone; are they? As it is past wishing that they hadn't come, it's the best thing they could do now. And who is to pay the rent of the house, now they have gone?"
And I'm told that what they call ink comes off on your fingers like lamp-black. I never touched one, thank God; but they tell me so. All the same; it isn't your fault." "I've nothing to do with it, Aunt Stanbury." "Of course you've not. And as he is your brother it wouldn't be natural that you should like to throw him off. And, my dear, I like you for taking his part.
There had been no accidental omission. Dorothy, therefore, did not dare to mention it, and yet it was essential for her happiness that he should be there. At the present moment Miss Stanbury's intense interest in the Stanbury wedding was somewhat mitigated by the excitement occasioned by Mr. Gibson's refusal to be married.
On the second morning Hugh Stanbury called at the parsonage, and was closeted for a while with the parson. Nora had heard his voice in the passage, and every one in the house knew who it was that was talking to Mr. Outhouse, in the little back parlour that was called a study. Nora was full of anxiety. Would he ask to see them, to see her? And why was he there so long?
"Because I was an old fool. But I must go down and receive her, I suppose." Then Miss Stanbury went down, almost trembling as she went. The matter to her was one of vital importance. She was going to change the whole tenour of her life for the sake, as she told herself, of doing her duty by a relative whom she did not even know.
After that terrible scene in which Miss Stanbury had so dreadfully confounded Mr. Gibson by declaring the manner in which he had been rebuffed by Dorothy, the unfortunate clergyman had endeavoured to make his peace with the French family by assuring the mother that in very truth it was the dearest wish of his heart to make her daughter Camilla his wife. Mrs.
No, I will know at once. I will write to Mr. Gerald Stanbury I will go to the president of the bank nay, to Mr. Biddle himself. I will resolve this matter." "You will do no such thing, my very dear young friend," said Mr. Bainrothe, advancing and laying his hand lightly on my arm I shook it off, as if it had been a cold, crawling serpent. He retreated quietly but quickly.
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