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A house like Vernons exists not by virtue of its brick and mortar; to keep it really alive it must be preserved in all its parts, not only from damp and decay, but from innovation; one can fancy a gas cooker sending a perpetual shudder through it, a telephone destroying who knows what fragrant old influences; the store cupboards and still room are part of its bowels, its napery, bed sheets, and hangings part of its dress.
Charles left Richard all his property and Vernons on the condition that I always lived here till I died, and that's how it is. I'm not Richard's aunt, it's only a name he gives me I'm only just an old piece of furniture left with the house to him. I'm so fond of the place, it would kill me to leave it; places grow like that round one, though I'm sure I don't know why."
That's the old Pinckney pew, belonged to Bures other people sit there now. This is our pew Vernons. The Mascarenes had it in the old days, of course." Phyl looked at the pew where Juliet Mascarene had sat often enough, no doubt, whilst the preacher had preached on the vanity of life, on the delusions of the world and the shortness of Time. Many an eloquent divine had stood in the pulpit of St.
She had intended returning straight home after making her purchase but they were walking now not towards Vernons but towards the Battery. "What do you do with yourself all day?" asked Silas, suddenly breaking silence. "Oh, I don't know," she replied, "nothing much we go out for drives." "In that old basket carriage thing?" "With Miss Pinckney." "I know, I've seen her often what else do you do?"
Van Dusen leaves on the 6th of next month. I am sending all particulars to Mr. Hennessey. You could meet Mrs. Van Dusen at Liverpool and go with her as far as New York. Let me have a cable to know if you are coming. Pinckney, Vernons, Charleston, U. S. A., is the cable address. "Your affectionate guardian also cousin "R. Pinckney."
It was between an oak bole and the wall of the garden, and the bushes behind had grown so that their branches half covered it. Neglected, forsaken, unknown, perhaps, to the people now living in Vernons it had lingered with the fidelity of inanimate things, protected by the foliage of the southern garden from prying eyes.
He will help us to have our revenge, maybe, for I have been persuading him; he is very bitter now against the Vernons, and will make thee a good accomplice." "Revenge," murmured Edmund, "ha! revenge is sweet. The baron shall be punished; my machine " "Never mind the machine now," broke in Sir Ronald, who was by no means anxious to listen to the well-worn rigmarole again.
"At least Oh, I don't know how to explain it I care for everything here, for Vernons and everything in it, it is all like a story that I love Juliet and Vernons and the past and the present. He's part of it too. I want to have it always just as it is. I didn't tell you, but when that happened in the cemetery, I was looking at her grave; you never told me it was there with his.
As members of a large family whose parents were not rich enough to pay for the modern plethora of nurses and governesses, the Garnetts and Vernons had been brought up to be independent, and to fend for themselves, hence the two mothers would not be so anxious to count the number of their brood, to see that each member was safe and sound, as would have been the parents of smaller, more indulged families.
He took it up at once and introduced me to Aylward, and the end of it was, that they offered me a partnership with a small share in the business, because they said I was just the man they wanted." "Just the man they wanted," repeated the editor after him. "Yes, the last of the Vernons, an engineer with an old name in his county, a clean record and plenty of ability.
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