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It would be unfilial, indeed, if we both of us forsook our father; and last year it was my turn to receive the first invitation, and to enjoy the change of scene. The Staveleys are excellent people strictly pious members of the Methodist Connection and exceedingly kind to my sister and me. But it was just as well for my moral welfare that I ended my visit to our friends when I did.
He said that I should leave it to such people as the Staveleys and the Ormes to guard her from ignominy and disgrace." "Oh, he did not mean that!" "But to me it seems that it should be a son's first duty. They are talking of trouble and of cost.
You will find that I have spoken the truth." A woman opened the door, and said to Mrs. Staveley: "Dinner, ma'am." That stopped this nasty exhibition of our tempers. We had a very good dinner. The next day I wrote to Helena, asking her what she had really said to the Staveleys about her age and mine, and telling her what I had said.
I have not yet been one whole day in the Staveleys' house, and they have offended me already. I don't want Helena to hear of this from other people, and then to ask me why I concealed it from her. We are to read each other's journals when we are both at home again. Let her see what I have to say for myself here. There are seven Staveleys in all: Mr. and Mrs.
Staveley, introducing him to papa. We spoke of the Staveleys, of the weather, of the Cathedral and then there seemed to be nothing more left to talk about. In the silence that followed what a dreadful thing silence is! papa was sent for to see somebody who had called on business. He made his excuses in the sweetest manner, but still seriously.
The fact is, Jim is rather run down; nothing much, of course, but I think a change would do him good, and the Staveleys have asked us to go to them, and I don't like to refuse, and we thought it would be such a good opportunity to have my bedroom re-papered and painted.
I wished I had not been so eager to have Mr. Dunboyne asked to dinner. A fear has come to me that I may have degraded myself. My spirits are depressed. This, as papa tells us in his sermons, is a miserable world. I am sorry I accepted the Staveleys' invitation. I am sorry I went to see the pictures.
The morning post has brought with it a promise of some little variety in our lives or, to speak more correctly, in the life of my sister. Our new and nice friends, the Staveleys, have written to invite Eunice to pay them a visit at their house in London. I don't complain at being left at home.
She had been asked to spend her Christmas with the Staveleys at Noningsby the family of Judge Staveley, who lives near Alston, at a very pretty country place so called. Mr. Furnival had been for many years acquainted with Judge Staveley, had known the judge when he was a leading counsel; and now that Mr.
"Yes, and she has done her duty admirably since her husband's death. You will find too that she has the sympathies of all the best people in her neighbourhood. She is staying now at the house of Sir Peregrine Orme, who would do anything for her." "Anything, would he?" "And the Staveleys know her. The judge is convinced of her innocence." "Is he? He'll probably have the Home Circuit in the summer.
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