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Lyddell should have said nothing of the kind, and sat down over the fire with her in her own room to read hymns. The next day Mr. Lyddell left Fern Torr, and Marian was so glad to gee him depart as to be able to endure much better his invitations to Oakworthy.
Perhaps it is only that I am jealous of them, and cannot think any one out of Fern Torr worthy to bring up my uncle's children. All I know of them is, that Mrs. Lyddell was heiress to a rich banker, she goes out a good deal in London, and the only time that I met her I thought her clever and agreeable.
I mean to be at Fern Torr in the holidays, I assure you, except a week or two, just to see Lionel; and I don't mean to have my holidays without you, I declare!" "O, I hope always to come home for them." "Why, then, if I have you when I am at home, I don't care, I mean " said Gerald, conscious of the egotism he was committing, "I mean you don't like it half so well, do you?"
"I don't care about every body; but you, Edmund, ought to be more dutiful to your own home." "You are exclusive, Marian; but come," and he stuck his rod into the ground, "let us have some of your sandwiches." "Not till you confess that you like Fern Torr better than all the fine places that you ever saw."
Miss Morley, Caroline, and Clara, had all gone different ways, and Marian remained, leaning her forehead against the window, thinking what her own dear Sunday-school class were doing at Fern Torr, and feeling very disconsolate.
Caroline turned away from the recollection of her, was all night and all the morning distressed, undecided, and vacillating; then came Lady Julia's affection, her lover pressing his suit, she hardly knew what she had said, but she found her consent was assumed, both families were rejoicing in it, she found herself considered to be engaged, and she returned home bewildered at all that had passed, flattered, almost intoxicated with the attention of various kinds paid her by every one, at High Down, and when her wonted dread of Marian's disapproving eye would return, hardening herself against it with the thought that Marian could not make every one as Utopian as her own Edmund and Fern Torr, that she was proud and determined in prejudice, and after all what right had she to interfere?
It meant that Caroline felt that she had given up the esteem and friendship in which they had lived, that she thought her own home unfit for one brought from such a sphere as Fern Torr, that she resigned all those plans for Clara's good, everything that had been valued between them, that she looked not for happiness for herself, and though she had forfeited such affection as once had been hers, yet she still loved Marian.
She wished she could turn him into Edmund, and looked at every plant which she fancied a native of the Cape, almost as kindly as if it had been a primrose of Fern Torr. It was another delightful day.
"There's few folk ken Ragon Torr as I do, mother. He is better at heart than thou wad think; indeed he is!" "If better were within, better wad come out, John. He's been drunk or dovering i' the chimney-corner these past three weeks. Hech! but he'd do weel i' Fool's Land, where they get half a crown a day for sleeping."
"Nay, I did not mean that; but you can bear to be with us after your own Agnes, after those good people, after such a home as Fern Torr?" "O, Caroline, this is very unlike my first coming to you!" "Yes, I know we were not kind; we were not as we ought to have been to you." "No, no, no; I was stiff and disagreeable; I would not be pleased," said Marian, forgetting all coldness but her own.
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