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She is a sensible woman, and the house is full of children they will rouse her." "I will take her myself," cried Mr. Ives. "Nay, nay, that would defeat my object. I want absolute change for her, change of thought, scene, companions." "But how manage it, if I may not go myself?" "Squire Thornton rides to Newbury tomorrow with Sir Harry Clare, and he will willingly be her protector." "They ride?"
And at Michaelmas, perhaps, a fourth may be added: some small hunting-box in the vicinity of everything so dear; for as to any partnership in Thornton Lacey, as Edmund Bertram once good-humouredly proposed, I hope I foresee two objections: two fair, excellent, irresistible objections to that plan."
"Did you try to make him apologize?" asked Mrs. Thornton, coldly. "Yes. But he looked at me with such an air that I had to apologize myself for hinting at such a thing. He was as inflexible as his father." "How else could he have been?" "Well, each might have yielded a little. It does not do to be so inflexible if one would succeed in life." "No," said Mrs. Thornton.
"What is the matter with father?" asked Grant, stopping short as he entered. "He is not feeling very well, Grant. He has got run down." "What does the doctor say?" "He says your father ought to take a three-months trip to Europe." "Which, of course, is impossible," said Mr. Thornton, smiling faintly. "Not if your brother would open his heart, and lend you the money." "He would not do it."
He was also a very bad hand at prevaricating; so with a stammer, he said "Yes!" "So do I!" said Miss Thornton. "Good Lord, my dear, how did you find it out?" "I recognised him the first instant I saw him, and was struck dumb. I was very discreet, and have never said a word even to you till now; and, lately, I have been thinking that you might know, and so I thought I would sound you."
Whatever might be the mystery, it was evidently of a painful nature, and it was not, therefore, for me to allude to it. This day he spoke of Thornton with a tone of indifference. "The man," he said, "I have known for some time; he was useful to me abroad, and, notwithstanding his character, I rewarded him well for his services.
Had an expurgated edition been brought to chaste Alta plus Menlo plus Atherton, by Mrs. Hunter or Mrs. Thornton, or any of those fortunate Californians who visited the headquarters of fashion and sin once a year? They would do a good deal to vary the monotony of life. But that they should have corrupted Maria...the impeccable, the superior, the unreorientable Maria!
"I shall be glad to know of some of these successful farmers who are using the improved methods. Will you name one, just as an example, and tell me about what he has done to restore his land?" "Well," said the agent, "There's T. O. Thornton, for example. Mr. Thornton bought an old plantation of a thousand acres only six years ago at a cost of six dollars an acre.
Stunned with what he had passed through, Arthur stood motionless, while Thornton drew Lucy's cloak about her shoulders, fastened her fur himself, tied on her satin hood, taking such care of her as a mother would take of a suffering child. "It is hardly safe to send her home alone," he thought, as he looked into her face and saw how weak she was. "As a friend of both, I ought to accompany her."
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