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Updated: June 3, 2025
Almost every native of Stoneborough felt strongly the encroachment of the brewer, and the boys, of course, carried the sentiment to exaggeration.
Lord Ashbridge took a refreshing glance at the broad stretch of country that all belonged to him. "I am rather glad to have this opportunity of talking to you, my dear Barbara," he said, "before Michael comes." "His train gets in half an hour before dinner" said Lady Ashbridge. "He has to change at Stoneborough." "Quite so.
Mary was, of course, told early in the day, but Gertrude got less sympathy from her than answered to that damsel's extortionate expectations, for, according to her wicked account, Mary's little Charlie had sneezed three times, and his mamma must regret what sent all the medical science of Stoneborough away by the early train. However, Tom came home at night. The interview had been satisfactory.
The letters received in the morning had prepared the way, and revived the recollection of the unsatisfactory case of Leonard Axworthy Ward, and of the representations of the then Mayor of Market Stoneborough.
Captain Gordon had taken him to Maplewood, where the recollection of his brother, and the happy hopes with which they had taken possession, came thronging upon him. The house was forlorn, and the corner that had been unpacked for their reception, was as dreary a contrast to the bright home at Stoneborough, as was the dry, stern captain, to the fatherly warm-hearted doctor.
We Stoneborough men only compare ourselves with each other. I shall break down to a certainty, and my father will be disappointed." "You will do your best?" "I don't know that. My best will all go away when it comes to the point." "Surely not. It did not go away last time you were examined, and why should it now?" "I tell you, Ethel, you know nothing about it.
Ogilvie declared that he must come home with him and pay his long-promised visit to Stoneborough. He should have come long ago. He had been coming last winter, but the wedding had prevented him; he had always wished to know Dr. May, whom his father well remembered, and now nothing should keep him away!
Cheviot's little brother, with a note from Mary, lamenting that it was too wet for herself, but saying that Charles was coming in the afternoon, and that he intended to have a dinner-party of old Stoneborough scholars to welcome Leonard back.
However, he had learned the use of his tongue by this time, though it was a very soft one; and he stood by Ethel, asking many questions about Stoneborough, while something, apparently very spirited and amusing, was going on between the others. The dinner went off well there were few enough for the conversation to be general.
Wilmot was so convinced by the papers, that the Doctor almost repented of the mission to which he had invited him, and would, if he could, have revoked what had been said. But the vicar of Stoneborough, painful as was the duty, felt his post to be by the side of his unhappy young parishioner, equally whether the gaol chaplain or Dr.
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