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Updated: June 10, 2025
In the twinkling of an eye the scene was changed, the Vernons with their peculiarities were consigned to the limbo of forgotten things, while boys and girls squatted on the rug scrambling for nuts out of a paper bag, and cracking them with their teeth with monkey-like agility. "How many can you crack at a time? Bet you I can crack more than you!" cried Darsie loudly.
They, the Vernons and the Wallers, are among my most valued friends; and at the houses also of Admiral Poynder and Captain Idle, and most of my subsequent commanders, I am a welcome guest. I must not forget to mention, once more, my gallant companion in so many adventures, honest Jack Stretcher.
But there was no one in the garden; nothing but the trees and the flowers, wind shaken and lit by the moon, the same placid moon that had lit the garden of Vernons for the lovers of whom he knew nothing except by hearsay, and for whom he cared nothing at all. When Phyl awoke from sleep next morning, the brightness of the South had lost some of its charm.
The spirit of Vernons, the calm sweet soul of the place, that seemed to hold the past and the present, Juliet and herself, peace and happiness with the promise of all good things in the future, this spirit rose up against Silas Grangerson as though he were the antagonist to happiness and peace, Juliet and herself, the present and the past. Rose up, without prevailing entirely.
It is true that the Vernons possessed the enviable advantage of a big grown-up brother, but when the Garnetts felt particularly tried on this score, they sought comfort from the reflection that a brother so solemn and scholarly, so reserved and unresponsive, hardly counted as a brother at all.
"Well, you'll be off to-morrow morning, and I won't see you, for I have to be out early, but I'll see you in Charleston, though not at Vernons maybe, for I'm not in love with Richard Pinckney, and I don't care much for visiting his house. But I'll see you somewhere, sure." "Good-bye," said she holding out her hand. He took it, held it, and then, all of a sudden, she found herself in his arms.
"It may yet be in my power, and it no doubt is, to amend its too partial provisions. "Let us be sisters still sisters in equality sisters in love and affection." Julia Vernon was a very noble girl. She lived to become of age, and she acted up to this her resolve. And, now, a few words as to the individual, by whose death the Miss Vernons acquired such an accession of property.
It's mine, really, but my father left it to Maria to live in; it comes to me at her death. I don't want that house at all. I want her to keep it forever, but it's such a pleasant old place, I like to live there instead of buying a house of my own. Vernons isn't exactly a house, it's more like a family tree hollow with all the ancestors inside instead of hanging on the branches."
But then, Isabel, forsooth, is not so rich. We cannot all be Vernons, you know, though if everybody had their deserts we " "Yes, I trow that she is rich and fair; but for neither of these do I care so much as her love," gallantly responded Stanley. "Tut, now, Sir Edward," pursued his tormentor, "both you and I know full well that people marry for riches and rank, not for beauty.
He exhibited his principles in his practice in the daily duties of life, till he taught the most profane and profligate to respect him, if not to adopt them. I wish there were more Basil Vernons in the service. Thank Heaven! there are some shining lights to lighten us in our darkness leaven, which gradually, though slowly, may, by God's providence, leaven the whole mass.
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