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Updated: June 16, 2025
On the evening which followed the one just described in our last chapter, Pluma Hurlhurst sat in her luxuriant boudoir of rose and gold, deeply absorbed in the three letters which she held in her lap. To one was appended the name of Septima Brooks, one was from Rex's mother, and the last and by far the most important one bore the signature of Lester Stanwick.
On our way back my admiration was excited by a thick wood, beautifully situated on rising ground at a little distance from the high-road: "Oh, dear," I said, "how I should like to take a walk in that wood!" Idle, thoughtless words; but, oh, what remembrances crowd on me as I think of them now! Captain Stanwick and Mr. Varleigh at once dismounted and offered themselves as my escort.
"Oh, I must go back to Uncle John, and to to " Stanwick had no idea she meant Rex. He took it for granted she meant John Brooks and Septima. "It is quite uncertain when John Brooks returns to Allendale," he said; "and I suppose you are aware his sister has also left the place gone, no one knows whither the Brookses' cottage on the brow of the hill stands empty."
At the same instant Miss Laroche started back from Captain Stanwick with a scream of terror. She would have fallen if I had not been near enough to support her. The Captain was instantly at her side again. "Speak!" he cried. "Do you see it, too?" She was just able to say "Yes" before she fainted in my arms. He stooped over her, and touched her cold cheek with his lips.
Unhappily, I missed my footing in the obscure light, and fell on the open ground beyond the stream. When I had gained my feet once more, Stanwick had disappeared among the trees which marked the boundary of the park beyond me. I could see nothing of him, and I could hear nothing of him, when I came out on the high-road. There I met with a laboring man who showed me the way to the village.
"'I shall answer truthfully any question you may put to me, she said; 'if if it is not about Mr. Stanwick. "'It is about yourself, Daisy, I said, gravely. 'Tell me truthfully, child, are you really a wife? "She caught her breath with a hard, gasping sound; but her blue eyes met mine unflinchingly. "'Yes, madame, I am, in the sight of God and man; but I am such an unhappy one.
Do you think," he continued, slowly, "that I am the man to give up a thing I have set my heart upon for a childish whim?" "Believe me," cried Daisy, earnestly, "it is no childish whim. Oh, Mr. Stanwick, I want to be grateful to you why will you torture me until I hate you?" "I will marry you this very day, Daisy Brooks, whether you hate me or love me. I have done my best to gain your love.
Secondly, there were the revenues drawn by the Canons from their respective prebends, and consisting partly of rents, but chiefly of tithes. The prebend of Stanwick was worth about twice as much as any other. Thirdly, there was the Fabric Fund, arising from certain rents, oblations, and licences, from the profits of St.
Your whole family even Hosmer, pretending to be so wise are blind as bats. You can't even see that Phebe's hair is as dyed as her stories. She says she is on the stage, but it's a pretty stage! I've been to Stanwick and seen those Parisian Dainties and burlesque shows. They're nothing but a lot of half-naked women cavorting and singing fast songs.
"Don't forget me!" he whispered, as he stood at the door, while I followed my aunt out. "Come to Nettlegrove," I whispered back. His eyes dropped to the ground; he let me go without a word more. This, I declare solemnly, was all that passed at our visit. By some unexpressed consent among us, no allusion whatever was made to Captain Stanwick; not even his name was mentioned.
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