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So, since Carnaby was to be a man of the right kind, his grandmother had come to look at him, not in love, as other women come to such bedsides, but in pride of heart. The boy, after his "white night" at Wittisham and the varied emotions of the succeeding day, lay on his side, in the deep, recuperative sleep of youth whence its energies are drawn and in which its vigors are renewed.
Wittisham was in profound darkness when he landed, and the moon having gone behind a bank of cloud, he had to grope his way to Mrs. Prettyman's cottage, shouldering the axe. The isolated position of the house alone made the adventure possible, he reflected; he could not have cut down a tree in the hearing of neighbours, and as to old Elizabeth herself, he hoped she was deaf.
Darke, who had hobbled around again to have another look at the fallen tree, addressed Lavendar solemnly. "Best tree in Wittisham 'e was, sir," touching the ruin of the branches as he spoke. "'Ooever could ha' thought o' sich a piece of wickedness as to cut 'im down? Murder, I calls it! 'Tis well as Mrs.
It is the sale of land at Wittisham which makes these improvements possible, advantages drawn from a painful necessity," and the iron woman almost sighed. "There won't be any sale of land at Wittisham, at least, not of Mrs. Prettyman's cottage," said Carnaby abruptly. "It is practically settled. The transfers only remain to be signed; you know that, Carnaby," said Lavendar curtly.
I'll run in and apologize abjectly to my thrice guilty aunt, then I'll reward myself by going over to Wittisham." "If you'll take the ferry over, I'd like to come and fetch you if I may. That shall be my reward." "Reward for what?" "For giving you advice very much against my personal inclinations. Courses of action founded entirely on policy do not appeal to me very strongly."
To go to Wittisham you have to cross the ferry, remember." "Oh! that must be simple! you may be sure I shall not lose myself!" said Robinette. Both the older women looked curiously at her for a moment; then Mrs. de Tracy said: "You will kindly not use the public ferry; the footman will row you across to Wittisham at any hour you may mention to him."
If you have to leave the plum tree you'll get a fine price put on it that may last you for years; it's such a splendid tree, anyone can see it's worth a good deal." "That it be, Missie, the finest tree in Wittisham," the old woman said, drying her eyes, a little comforted by the assurance in Robinette's voice and manner.
If I must stand by and see it done, then I shall assert my right to provide for Nurse and move her into a new dwelling. After you left the drawing room last night, I begged as tactfully as I could that Aunt de Tracy would sell me some of the jewels, so that she need not part with the land at Wittisham. She was very angry, and wouldn't hear of it.
"If you hadn't fifteen years' start of me I'd give you a run for your money!" exclaimed Carnaby with a daring look. While these incidents were taking place at the Manor House, village life at Wittisham had been stirring for hours. Thin blue threads of smoke were rising from the other cottages into the windless air: only from Nurse Prettyman's there was none.
This determination was hastened when she saw that instead of the three-decker steamer of her native land, the ferry at Wittisham was just like an ordinary row-boat; that one rang a bell hanging from a picturesque tower; that a nice young man with a sprig of wallflower in his cap rowed one across, and that each passenger handed out a penny to him on the farther side.
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