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"I am rather sorry I asked my brother to meet me here; I forgot he has not been to Thornhurst for so many years." "It is time then that he came," said Anne, gently. "I shall be very glad to see him." While she was speaking, her old servant entered, with the announcement of "Major Harper."
At last, walking on blindly through the night, she came to the termination of the Thornhurst estate.
Anne said something, either in jest or earnest, about one's often fancying one has seen places in a previous existence, and changed the theme by pointing out the view on the other hand. "My house, Thornhurst, lies in that direction. You must come and see me soon, and we will talk more pleasantly than I can do to-day. It is so strange to be sitting here with Mrs. Locke Harper." "Why so?
Was he harmed by that that awful three days at sea? "No; he seems quite well. He drove me to Thornhurst." "Then he is here?" And there came a slight trembling over the placid face. "He had to go back to Kingcombe, I believe," said Agatha, hesitating.
Either by necessity or design, he had been almost constantly away; at Thornhurst, arranging business for Miss Valery, who had gone home; sometimes at Kingcombe, in his own house his lonely house; and for two days and nights, to the astonishment and slight scandal of his sisters, he had been absent in Cornwall.
He never set foot in quiet Thornhurst more. The three that were left behind breathed freer perhaps they would hardly have acknowledged it, but it was so. "Well, now it is all done," said Nathanael, as he drew closer to the sofa where Anne lay with Agatha performing all sorts of little unnoticed cares about her. "And now I must think about going."
This remarkable woman, who, without possessing great talents, and with the disadvantage of an imperious and capricious temper, exercised for so long a period such exceptional influence over public affairs, was the second of the three daughters of Richard Jennings, a country gentleman of good family but moderate fortune, her mother being Frances Thornhurst, daughter of Sir Gifford Thornhurst, of Agnes Court, in Kent, and his heiress.
That my going to Cornwall is necessary, on business grounds, I have already made clear to Marmaduke. He will tell his wife, and Harriet will tell all the world. I have so arranged that you will have no difficulty of any kind. This house will go on as usual, or you can visit at Thornhurst and at my father's.
Agatha bowed her head, and her heart with it, almost to the dust. She remembered Anne Valery's saying how much those who loved have need to trust in God. Poor Anne! Never until this minute had any one thought of Anne at home at Thornhurst. Shocked at the selfishness that often comes with great misery, Agatha cried eagerly: "Did you hear anything about Uncle Brian?" "No nothing."
As such they may be contrasted with the effigy of Lady Thornhurst, who exhibits all the beauty of an Elizabethan ruff. Sir Thomas Thornhurst, whose monument is hard by, was killed in the ill-fated expedition to the Isle of Rhé. In the corner of the chapel is the bust of Sir George Rooke, Vice-Admiral, who led the assault on Gibraltar by which it was first captured.
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