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"I'll show my gratitude," said Janet; "we'll give all of them at Kencroft all the fine clothes and jewels and amusements that ever they care for, more than ever they gave us; only it is we that shall give and they that will take, don't you see?" "Sweet charity," quoth Bobus.
For instance, two or three days later, when his mother and Allen were eating solemnly a dinner at Kencroft, by way of farewell ere Allen's return to Eton, an extraordinarily frightful noise was heard in the poultry yard, where dwelt various breeds of Uncle Robert's prize fowls. Thieves -foxes- dogs- what could it be?
She lived chiefly in the present, and the chief events of her life had all come so suddenly and unexpectedly upon her, that she was all the less inclined to guess at the future, having always hitherto been taken by surprise. So, when Jock observed in public "Mother, they say at Kencroft that the old miser ought to leave you half his money.
The first time she went to Kencroft, she made Colonel Brownlow hold her up in his arms to gather a bough off his own favourite double cherry; and when Mother Carey demurred, she beguiled Aunt Ellen into taking her on her own responsibility to the dancing lessons at the assembly rooms.
Though not to compare in numbers, size, or beauty with the Kencroft flock, the Belforest party ranged well in their seat at Church, for Robert never failed to accompany his mother once a day, as a concession due from son to mother. It was far from satisfying her.
It is like going out into the country on a spring morning. And there is very real beauty too " "Yes, Kencroft monopolises all the good looks of the family. What a fine fellow the dear old Friar has grown." "If you bring out those two girls this year, you will take the shine out of all the other chaperons!" "I wonder whether your aunt would like it."
Had her years of levity and indifference been fatal to him? was ever her question to herself as she knelt and prayed for him. She felt encouraged when, at luncheon, she asked Jock to walk with her to Kenminster for the evening service, after looking in at Kencroft, Robert volunteered to be of the party.
Wish was far too strong a word for poor frightened Esther; she could only cling and quiver. "Shall I tell him to go and see them at Kencroft?" "Oh, do, do, dear Aunt Carey! Please tell him to go to papa, and not want to see me till " "Very well, my dear child; that will be the best way.
The horses were moving! But he remembered a slight steep on the further road where they must go slower. Moreover, there were a few curves in the horse-road. He set his teeth with the desperate resolution of a moment, clenched his hands, intensified his mental cry to Heaven, and with the dogged determination of Kencroft dashed on, not daring to look at the carriage, intent only on the way.
However there were those in Kenminster who never failed to know all about everything, and the first afternoon after Armine's disaster that Caroline came to Kencroft she was received with such sympathetic kindness that her prophetic soul misgave her, and she dreaded hearing either that she was letting herself be cheated by some tradesman, or that she was to lose her pupils. No.
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