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So he paid through the nose, and got possession of the old house, in which I should think he had passed about as miserable a childhood as it was possible to pass. There's no accounting for tastes. 'And then the next summer they all came down, interrupted Mrs. Thornburgh. She disliked a long story as she disliked being read aloud to. 'Catherine was fifteen, not a bit like a child.
Elsmere' and the gentle widow dropped her voice as though communicating a secret 'when Catherine's once made up her mind, you may as well try to dig away High Fell as move her. She asked me to tell Mrs. Thornburgh will you please? that she found it was her day for the orphan asylum, and one or two other pieces of business, and she must go. 'Mrs.
Joseph Rankin, was especially strong in opposition to the request of the Indians. Major Thornburgh then concluded to march his column within hailing distance of the agency, where he would accept the proposition of the Indians. But he was never allowed to carry out his designs.
And then I was just sure you'd be the last person in the world, if you knew, to stand in young people's way! 'I! cried poor Mrs. Leyburn 'I stand in the way! She was getting tremulous and tearful, and Mrs. Thornburgh felt herself a brute. 'Well, she said, plunging on desperately, 'I have been thinking over it night and day.
'Well, I don't somehow believe, said Mrs. Thornburgh boldly, 'that she doesn't care for him. He is just the young man Catherine might care for. You can see that yourself. Mrs. Leyburn once more laid down her knitting and stared at her visitor. Mrs. Thornburgh, after all her meditations, had no very precise idea as to why she was at that moment in the Burwood living-room bombarding Mrs.
It was the cheapening the vulgarising, so to speak, of her whole existence. In the course of their long embrace Mrs. Leyburn let fall various items of news that showed Catherine very plainly who had been at work upon her mother, and one of which startled her. 'He comes back to-night, my dear and he goes on Saturday. Oh, and, Catherine, Mrs. Thornburgh says he does care so much. Poor young man!
Her brilliant coloring, her gestures as fresh and untamed as the movements of the leaping river outside, the mixture in her of girlish pertness and ignorance with the promise of a remarkable general capacity, made her a most taking, provoking creature. Mrs. Thornburgh much recovered in mind since Dr.
The vicar slowly descended to tackle his spouse, who seemed to have established herself for the morning in his sanctum, though the parish accounts were clamouring to be done, and this morning in the week belonged to them by immemorial usage. But Mrs. Thornburgh was unmanageable.
'So eligible, too private means, no encumbrances, and as good as gold. She sat lost a moment in a pleasing dream. 'Shall I bring oot the tea to you theer, mum? called Sarah gruffly, from the garden door. 'Master and Mr. Elsmere are just coomin' down t' field by t' stepping-stones. Mrs. Thornburgh signalled assent and the tea-table was brought.
Poor Mrs. Thornburgh had said to herself as she entered the room on the arm of Mr. Mayhew, the incumbent of the neighbouring valley of Shanmoor, that the first coup d'oeil was good.
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