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Updated: May 5, 2025
An open carriage, with a pair of showy but ill-matched horses, looking unfit for country work on the one hand, as for Hyde Park on the other, drew up at the door; and a visible wave of interest ran from end to end of the shop, swaying as well those outside as those inside the counter, for the carriage was well known in Testbridge.
She will very likely not be out of her room before one. I suppose you saw her at Durnmelling?" "Yes, ma'am," answered Mary, " and at Testbridge." It kept growing on the housekeeper that she had made a mistake though to what extent she sought in vain to determine. "You will find it rather wearisome waiting," she said next; " would you not like to help me with my work?"
Helmer, ma'am?" asked Mary one morning, as she was brushing her hair. "Very well. How do you know anything of him?" "Not many people within ten miles of Testbridge do not know Mr. Helmer," answered Mary. "Yes, yes, I remember," said Hesper. "He used to ride about on a long-legged horse, and talked to anybody that would listen to him.
A rather cross-looking, red-faced, thin woman appeared, whom she requested to let her mistress know, as soon as was proper, that there was a young person in the house who said she had come from Testbridge by appointment to see her. "Yes, ma'am," said Folter, with a supercilious yet familiar nod to Mary; "I'll take care she knows."
He had been looking out in vain for a sight of her now from the oak-tree, now from his bay mare's back, as he haunted the roads about Thornwick, now from the window of the little public-house where the path across the fields joined the main road to Testbridge: but not once had he caught a glimpse of her. He had seated himself where he could not fail to see her if she were in the Thornwick pew.
She had not been seated under it many minutes before Godfrey caught sight of her from his horse's back: knowing his mother was gone to Testbridge, he yielded to an urgent longing, took his horse to the stable, and crossed the grass to where she sat.
"What part of the country are you from?" asked Mrs. Perkin, with her usual diagonal upward toss of the chin, but without lifting her eyes from her work. "From Testbridge," answered Mary. "The servants in this house are in the habit of saying ma'am to their superiors: it is required of them," remarked Mrs. Perkin.
The sad fact was, that, ever since she left Testbridge, Letty, for a long time, without knowing it, had been going down hill. There have been many whose earnestness has vanished with the presence of those whose influence awoke it.
Before she went to find Beenie, who was still at Testbridge, in a cottage of her own, she felt she must think over these things, and come, if possible, to some conclusion about them. She left the town, therefore, and walked homeward. What did it all mean?
Turnbull left Testbridge, and went to live in a small county-town where she was unknown.
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