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Then I thought Lucy had purchased the place, and was living there with Andrew Drewett, in a handsome new house, built in the modern taste.
I suppose you know Mr. Hardinge has invited him here?" "Here? Andrew Drewett? And why is he coming here?" "I heard him ask Mr. Hardinge's permission to visit us here; and you know how it is with our dear, good guardian the milk of human kindness himself, and so perfectly guileless that he never sees more than is said in such matters, it was impossible he could refuse.
"Certainly not too late, if you include Lucy, herself, in your conditions; but I am afraid, Miles, it is 'too late' for Lucy." "Am I to understand, then, that Miss Hardinge is engaged to Mr. Drewett? Are her affections enlisted in his behalf?"
Lucy is not a coquette, or a girl to encourage when she does not mean to accept." "That's all I know of the matter. Drewett continues to visit; is as attentive as a young man well can be, where a young woman is as scrupulous as is Lucy about the proper forms, and I infer they understand each other.
I should think all who knew her must," added Drewett, as if determined to win my heart; "and, in my opinion, she was both beautiful and lovely." "This from a man who is confessedly an admirer nay, engaged to your own sister, as the world says, Hardinge, must be taken as warm praise," said the third.
Why it is Miles dear Miles you surely have heard us speak of Miles but I forget; you never were at Clawbonny is it not a most joyful surprise, dearest, dearest Grace!" Mr. Andrew Drewett waited, I thought, with most commendable patience for Grace to squeeze Lucy's hand, and to murmur her own felicitations, when he ventured to add "You were about to say something, Miss Hardinge?"
Hardinge, too, had a word to say in confirmation of his daughter's decision; and the travellers reluctantly prepared to enter the boat. After he had assisted his mother over the sloop's side, Andrew Drewett turned to me, and in fair, gentleman-like, manly language, expressed his sense of the service I had rendered him.
"Very truly, sir; I admit the unfairness of my remark, and can only atone for it by adding it is quite apparent Mr. Drewett is not influenced by interested motives, since he certainly was attentive to Miss Hardinge previously to Mrs. Bradfort's death, and when he could not possibly have anticipated the nature of her will." "Quite true, Miles, and very properly and justly remarked.
I presume Drewett saw the boom placed so favourably as to tempt him, and he fancied it would be a thing to mention to carry a lady her work-box across a bridge that was of so precarious a footing.
At least, I fancied his manner said something like this. "Thank you, Mr. Drewett," said Lucy, in her sweetest manner. "Mr. Wallingford and I are very, very old friends, you know he is Grace's brother, and you have been at Clawbonny" Drewett bowed, civilly enough "and I have a thousand things to say to him. So, Miles, take this seat, and let me hear all about your voyage."
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