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Lodloe, and they were soon seated on a bench discussing the manners and ways of life in Lethbury. To a man who recently had been seized with a desire to marry and to live in Lethbury, and who had already taken some steps in regard to the marriage, this subject was one of the most lively interest, and Lodloe was delighted to find what a sensible, practical, and well-informed woman was Miss Rose.
Cristie, and said: "Indeed, indeed, you ought to be very careful; and no matter how you look at it, she is not fit for a nurse, as everybody can see. Make up your mind to send her away, and I'll go myself and get you a good one." Glancing out of the door to see that the Lethbury lady was out of hearing, Mrs. Cristie said: "You are very good, Mrs.
"Well, sir, if it's all the same to you, I prefer walking in any direction to that of Lethbury. It's a good enough place, but to-day I don't feel drawn to it." "Very good," said Lodloe; "we will walk anywhere but in the direction of Lethbury." About half an hour afterward, Mrs.
You're absolutely brimming with illicit enjoyment." She stared again, this time at the adjective. His adjectives always embarrassed her: their unintelligibleness savored of impropriety. "In short," he summed up, "you've been doing something that you're thoroughly ashamed of." To his surprise she retorted: "I don't see why I should be ashamed of it!" Lethbury leaned back with a smile of enjoyment.
Lethbury and the nurses, and Jane contributed to them only a placid stare which might have served as a rebuke to the combatants. In the reaction from his first impulse of atonement, Lethbury noted with sharpened perceptions the effect of the change on his wife's character. He saw already the error of supposing that it could work any transformation in her.
The abstention had not always been easy, for the world is surprisingly well-stocked with the kind of woman one ought to have married but did not; and Lethbury had not escaped the solicitation of such alternatives.
There are plenty of them there." So when the early morning boat came along he took passage for the nearest railroad station on the river, for he wished to lose no time on that trip. The elderly lady who was going to Lethbury took a great interest in Mrs. Cristie, who was to be her only fellow-passenger.
Beam, "I know you are not the man to allow trifles to stand in the way of important movements. I am here for a purpose, a great purpose, with which you will be in entire sympathy. I will say at once, frankly and openly, that my object is the improvement of Lethbury. I have a project which " "Now, now, now!" exclaimed Mr.
The clergyman might have a stroke, or the church might burn down, or there might be something wrong with the license. He did all that was humanly possible to avert such contingencies, but there remained that incalculable factor known as the hand of God. Lethbury seemed to feel it groping for him. In the church it almost had him by the nape. Mr.
"Look here," said the latter, with something of his usual briskness; "if you are still in the humor, suppose we walk over to Lethbury." Lodloe looked at him in surprise. "I thought you didn't want to go there," he said. "I've changed my mind," replied the other. "I think this is a very good day to go to Lethbury.
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