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"Nay, Miss Rothesay, do not quit your easel; Miss Van-brugh will accompany me through the garden, and besides, I wish to speak to her about her clematis. We cannot make them grow in S shire; the Hall is perhaps too cold and bleak." "Ah, how I love a clear bracing air!" said Mrs. Rothesay, with the restlessness peculiar to all invalids and she had been a greater invalid than usual this summer.
"Nay here he comes to ask you himself," cried Olive, as a tall, a very tall shadow darkened the window, and its corporeality entered the room. He was a most extraordinary-looking man, Mr. Van-brugh. Olive had, indeed, reason to call him "not handsome," for you probably would not see an uglier man twice in a lifetime.
I thank you all the same,'and you shall not find me ungrateful," said the young lady, kissing Miss Meliora's hand, and speaking in a tone of real feeling, which would have moved any woman. It quite overpowered Miss Van-brugh the softest-hearted little woman in the world. She embraced her protégée, declaring that she would never part with her.
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