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They must have been very poor. Fanny" she took up the letter "Fanny says she has come home to learn music and French that she may earn money by teaching when she goes back. She doesn't write very well, does she?" She held out the sheet. The handwriting, indeed, was remarkably illiterate, and Mrs. Colwood could only say that probably a girl of Miss Merton's circumstances had had few advantages.
When they arrived at Mr Merton's, they were introduced into a crowded drawing-room, full of the most elegant company which that part of the country afforded, among whom were several young gentlemen and ladies of different ages, who had been purposely invited to spend their holidays with Master Merton.
"Surely, this is not true of all owls," I said, and by reading further we learned that the barred, or hoot owl, and the great horned owl, were deserving of a surer aim of Merton's gun. They prey not only upon useful game, but also invade the poultry-yard, the horned species being especially destructive. Instances were given in which these freebooters had killed every chicken upon a farm.
Merton's family: they come very often when the London gentlemen are with them." "Merton! oh, the cringing parson. Harkye! one word more with me, sir, and you quit my service to-morrow." Mr.
He had, he said, observed a strange and unaccountable agitation and depression in Merton's manner for some days past; he had also been several times disturbed at night by his talking aloud to himself, and walking to and fro in his room.
The only other alternatives were either to cut himself off at once from his English friends that, of course, was what Delaine wished or to appeal to Lady Merton's sympathy and pity. Well, he would do neither and Delaine might go hang! Mrs. Ginnell, with her apron over her head to shield her from a blazing sun, appeared at the corner of the house. "You're wanted, sir!" Her tone was sulky.
Here people are interested in their neighbors. It will cause quite a scandal when it becomes known that you are occupying Lord Merton's house with nothing more than a number of questionable men. As far as I can see, you are far worse off here than if you had stayed in London. I may be wrong, of course." "I begin to think you are quite right," Fenwick grunted. "I must see to this.
That evening, amid a gay and fashionable assemblage at Mrs. Merton's, was to be seen the showy Charles Wilton, with his easy, and even elegant manners, attracting almost as much attention as his vain heart could desire. And the quiet, sensible Walter Gray was there also, looking upon all things with a calm, philosophic mien. "Your friend Mr.
Everything would come right, but patience was necessary. The scene took place in the conservatory of Mr. Merton's house, in Park Lane, where Lord Arthur had dined as usual. Sybil had never seemed more happy, and for a moment Lord Arthur had been tempted to play the coward's part, to write to Lady Clementina for the pill, and to let the marriage go on as if there was no such person as Mr.
'The former part of your supposition is true, sweet sister mine, replied Rupert: 'not knowing what spells it might contain, seeing that Miss Merton's caligraphy is more like the cabalistic characters of a sorceress than the Italian-hand of a gentle demoiselle, I exorcised it I committed it to the devouring element!
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