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Updated: September 18, 2025
Thornburgh's 'high tea, that lady was seated in the vicarage garden, her spectacles on her nose, a large couvre-pied over her knees, and the Whinborough newspaper on her lap. The neighbourhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her housewifely mind were taken up with quite other things.
You see my hotel, and he pointed, smiling, to a white farmhouse standing just at the bend of the valley, where the road turned towards Whinborough. 'I persuaded the good woman there to give me a bed for the night, took my carriage a little farther, then, knowing I had friends in these parts, I came on to explore. Rose angrily felt her flush getting deeper and deeper.
Richard and Miss Puttenham will be here to-night. They have heard of Hester." In stupefaction they read the telegram, which had had been sent from Crewe: "Received news of Hester on arrival Paris yesterday. She has left M. Says she has gone to find your mother. Keep her. We arrive to-night Whinborough 7.10." "It is now seven," said Catharine, looking at her watch. "But where where is she?"
Thornburgh was left protesting to the vicar's incredulous ears that never never as long as she lived would she have Mrs. Seaton inside her doors again. 'Her manners' cried the vicar's wife, fuming-'her manners would disgrace a Whinborough shop-girl. She has none-positively none! Then suddenly her round, comfortable face brightened and broadened out into a beaming smile
His family watched his progress with a gaping, half-contemptuous amazement, till he announced himself as safely installed at Oxford, having borrowed from a Whinborough patron the modest sum necessary to pay his college valuation a sum which wild horses could not have dragged out of his father, now sunk over head and ears in debt and drink. From that moment they practically lost sight of him.
A trap Westmoreland calls it a car a kind of box on wheels, was approaching the head of the dale from the direction of Whinborough. It stopped at the foot of the steep and narrow lane leading to Burwood, and a young lady got out. "You're sure that's Burwood?" she said, pointing to the house partially visible at the end of the lane. The driver answered in the affirmative. "Where Mrs.
A rural hostess earns her reputation, not by a discriminating eye for butcher's-meat, but by her inventiveness in cakes and custards. And it was just here, with regard to this 'bubble reputation, that the vicar's wife of Long Whindale was particularly sensitive. Was she not expecting Mrs. Seaton, the wife of the Rector of Whinborough odious woman to tea?
Three of Leyburn's sons were there: two of them farmers like himself, one a clerk from Manchester, a daughter married to a tradesman in Whinborough, a brother of the old man, who was under the table before supper was half over, and so on. Richard Leyburn wrote to ask me to come, and I went to support his cloth.
Thornburgh had gone prowling about the neighboring town of Whinborough till the shop window of a certain newly arrived confectioner had been revealed to her, stored with the most airy and appetizing trifles of a make and coloring quite metropolitan.
That good fellow" he nodded toward the Whinborough lad who had brought them from, the station "will take one of his horses and go for the doctor. We shall get him here in a couple of hours." Silently they brought her in, the stalwart, kindly men, they mounted the cottage stairs, and on Mary' bed they laid her down. O crushed and wounded youth!
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