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Only be content and in token that you are so, give me your hand." She gave him both, and then leaned back again on Miss Valery's shoulder. "Tell him I will go with him anywhere at any time if it will only make him happy."
Have you thought what had better be done, since you are the right person to do it?" "As yet I have thought of nothing. And, alas! what can be done?" "Sit down, and let us consider," said she, laying her hand on his, with a force soft yet steady as that of her words. Agatha was gliding out of the room, but her lover's quick movement and Miss Valery's look stopped her.
Do you know what it is to be quite content with everything in one's life past, present, and to come, knowing that all is overruled for good, forgiving everybody and loving everybody?" Agatha linked her arms tighter round Miss Valery's neck. "Don't talk in that way, or look in that way don't. Be wicked! Speak cross! I will not have you an angel. I will not feel your wings growing.
The sight was so startling, so moving especially in a woman of Miss Valery's mature age and composed demeanour that Nathanael's wife instinctively turned her eyes away and kept silence. In a minute or two Anne had returned to Mr.
There was one thing more to be done to write a line ready for Anne Valery's waking, otherwise she would expect her home, as she had promised, in the early morning.
They'd side at once with Trenchard and Free-trade. Come now, Nathanael, you'll assist? By the way, somebody told me you were very rich or at least that your wife was an heiress. She looks a kind little soul She'll put her name down under Anne Valery's here?" And he turned to Agatha with that air of frank goodness by which Marmaduke Dugdale could coax everybody round to his own ends.
"Is it all done, now?" "Nearly," and Mrs. Harper hurriedly folded the letter, which lay still on her lap. Miss Valery's eye caught the writing; Nathanael gave it to her. Anne read it; at first with a natural womanly feeling nay, even agitation. Soon this ceased, absorbed in the infinite peace and content of her whole mien. "I knew all this long ago," she said calmly.
While the girl looked, a quick shadow passed over Anne Valery's still features, for the moment entirely changing their expression. But soon returned their ordinary settled calm. "We often fancy that strangers' faces are familiar. It is usually held to be an omen of future affection. Let me hope that it will prove so now. I have long wished, and am truly glad, heart-glad to see you, my dear child."
All soon started; Agatha being kidnapped, not much against her will, by her gay sister-in-law, and driven across the moors at such a helter-skelter pace that Nathanael, who had insisted upon following them on horseback, received his wife at the door with an evident thanksgiving that she had reached home alive. Miss Valery's little equipage came leisurely on behind.
Eulalie is the youngest Miss Harper, as we should explain to our kind friends here whom I hope we are not boring very much with our family reminiscences. And Eulalie, contrary to the usual custom of the Harpers, is actually going to be married. To a clergyman, is he not, N. L.? late Curate of Kingcombe parish?" "No of Anne Valery's parish.
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