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'My dearest child, said Mrs. Woodbourne, 'do not go on making yourself unhappy, I am very sorry I said anything about your Papa; you know he cannot be angry with one who grieves so sincerely for what she has done amiss. I am sure you have learnt a useful lesson, and will be wiser in future.
'I am sure I cannot tell what I should do if you did not undertake it, my dears, said Mrs. Woodbourne. 'Do not begin thanking us till we have done the deed, Mamma, said Elizabeth; 'it may turn out a great deal worse than if we had left it to the unassisted taste of the maids.
Besides, with all his perfections, managing little girls is not what he is best fitted for. Anne laughed. 'No, he is too grave and cold; I am rather afraid of him still, I do not think he has any toleration for nonsense; but of course he must be different with his own children. And how do you think Mrs. Woodbourne trained Helen?
Woodbourne looked greatly relieved; she had been for some time in trouble for the dinner, not being able to console herself in the way in which Elizabeth sometimes attempted to re-assure her in such cases 'Never mind, Mamma, the dinner is used to waiting. As soon as dinner was over, the girls proposed to walk to the new church, that Anne might see it at her leisure before the Consecration.
Hazleby reproachfully to Edward; who answered in a loud voice, 'I am sure I did not make him do it. Elizabeth knelt down by Mrs. Woodbourne, and began to unroll the handkerchief in which Winifred had wound up her hand; but she was prevented by a fresh scream from the patient. 'Oh! my dear, never mind, do not cry; come, be a brave woman, said poor Mrs. Woodbourne, her voice quivering with alarm.
'I told you there was a small lake at some distance from Woodbourne, where the gentlemen sometimes go to shoot wild-fowl. I happened at breakfast to say I should like to see this place in its present frozen state, occupied by skaters and curlers, as they call those who play a particular sort of game upon the ice.
Freeman assured me what do you think, young ladies? that Master Horatio Woodbourne is by far the most promising youth who has entered his celebrated academy since of course you know whom I mean, and will spare my blushes! 'Unluckily, said Anne, 'the evident fabrication of the latter part of that speech destroys our belief in the beginning of it.
Woodbourne, making light of her anxiety for her own children, had done all that the most affectionate mother could have done for him, and had shewn more energy than almost anyone had believed her to possess, comforting Sir Edward with hopes and cheerful looks, soothing the boy's waywardness, and bearing with his fretfulness in his recovery, as none but a mother, or a friend as gentle as Mrs.
'No, my dear sir, she said, extending her hand, receive my faith, that from this moment you shall be the first person consulted respecting what shall pass in future between Brown I mean Bertram and me; and that no engagement shall be undertaken by me excepting what you shall immediately know and approve of. May I ask if Mr. Bertram is to continue a guest at Woodbourne?
How like a hateful ape, Detected grinning 'midst his pilfer'd hoard, A cunning man appears, whose secret frauds Are open'd to the day! Count Basil There was a great movement at Woodbourne early on the following morning to attend the examination at Kippletringan. Mr.
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