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husband and child for his home as where she was quite unknown a justification or a condemnation of her step according as you view it was seen when not long after she received a note from her former husband it was a hasty and tender and perhaps it was fortunate that it arrived during the temporary absence of lord his wo...	45
your permission she with the haughty severity which had grown part of her character and which her elevation to a group of noble the rank of a had rather than diminished she said that she would consider and would give him an answer the day after the next at the same hour and place when her husband would again be absent ...	45
be a successor to the title yet no sign of that successor appeared one day he complained to her quite roughly of his fate all will go to that of a cousin he cried sooner see my name and place at the bottom of the sea the lady soothed him and fell into thought and did not but one day soon after she went down to the cott...	45
seeing that he s been dead and gone many years it is said that when he bought an estate he would not decide to pay the price till he had walked over every single acre with his own two feet and the soil at every point with his own to test its quality which if we regard the extent of his properties must have been a busin...	45
in the child s face saw there his wife s countenance though he did not see his own and fell into thought on the of childhood particularly of despised and rejected childhood like this before him from that hour try as he would to the feeling the human necessity to love something or other a group of noble got the better ...	45
lands purchases and buildings more particularly their political and military achievements which had been great and their performances in art and letters which had been by no means contemptible he studied prints of the portraits of that family and then like a watching a began to examine young s face for the of those his...	45
this mere of a wretched old uncle whose very name he wished to forget the boy s christian name even was an and an irony for it hereditary force and brilliancy to which he plainly would never attain the consolation of real was always left him certainly but he could n ot help groaning to himself why cannot a son be one s...	45
dear companion in childhood should be exposed to curious observation in this her great grief when they were alone in the tent he clasped her in his arms for he had not seen her since those happier days when at the commencement of the war her husband and himself had been of the same mind about the arbitrary conduct of t...	45
the building is much reduced from its original grand proportions it has moreover been of the fair estate which once to its lord with the exception of a few acres of park land immediately the mansion this was formerly the seat of the ancient and family of the or now extinct in the male line whose name according to the l...	45
about the very time at which the unfortunate sir william discovered her preference for him and was beginning to hasten home from a foreign court to declare his devotion to her on his arrival in england he learnt the sad truth if sir william suffered at her under what she had deemed his neglect the lady herself suffered...	45
so thick in the atmosphere around her actually reached the lady s ears but that they did reach her there is no doubt it was impossible that they should not the district with them they in the air like night birds of evil omen then a reason for her husband s departure occurred to her appalled mind and a loss of health be...	45
out the gleaming stone backed by heavy boughs was visible from the distant high road as a white spot on the surface of darkness though called a castle the building was little fortified and had been erected with greater eye to internal convenience than those places of defence to which the name strictly it was a mansion ...	45
congregation as previous beauties of the family had done in their time she seemed to care no more for eating and drinking out of crystal and silver than from a service of vessels a group of noble her head was in truth full of something else and that such was the case was only too obvious to the duke her husband at firs...	45
that had enabled him to resist the passionate temptation to which in her reckless had exposed him was rewarded by a certain kind of success though the murmuring stretch of waters whereon he gazed day after day too often seemed to be to him in tones of her well remembered voice he framed i his journey rules of conduct f...	45
her a ball to night to keep up the old custom of the duke and his father before him which she does not wish to change indeed has she lived here entirely alone since the duke s death quite alone but though she doesn t receive company herself she likes the village people to enjoy themselves and often has em here kind hea...	45
a were that a woman bearing the name which had mentioned as certainly did come aboard for a voyage he made about that time that she took a common berth among the poorest that she died on the voyage out at about five days sail from that she seemed a lady in manners and education why she had not applied for a first class...	45
profession so little indeed was anybody expected that the coffee room waiter a genteel boy whose buttons in summer were as close together upon the front of his short jacket as peas in a now appeared in the back yard into the shape of a rough country lad in and boots sweeping the snow away and talking the local dialec...	45
a man to learn i have married her uncle as i said answered james coolly the deed is done and can t be undone by talking here where were you married at st mary s when on the th of september during the time she was visiting there who married you i don t know one of the we were quite strangers to the place so instead of ...	45
the horse a few minutes rest and if you find out no change in the direction we will this lane and take the other turning the expedient seemed a good one in the circumstances especially when recommended by the singular eagerness of her voice and placing the reins in her hands a quite unnecessary precaution considering ...	45
would find himself little if any the worse for the catastrophe it could also be seen that while secretly hoping for her husband s forgiveness for a piece of folly of which she saw the more clearly every day was in great doubt as to what her relations with him would be moreover to add to the whilst she as a wife was by ...	45
and hoped again but all to no purpose captain did not alter his mind and return he was quite a different sort of man from one who altered his mind that she was at last forced to admit and then she left off hoping and settled down to a mechanical routine of existence which in some measure her grief but at the expense of...	45
s long ago the last century having run but little more than a third of its length north south and west not a was not a curtain eastward one window on the upper floor was open and a girl of twelve or thirteen was leaning over the sill that she had not taken up the position for purposes of observation was apparent at a g...	45
spent a group of here in solitude be began to feel tbat be bad made a mistake in coming by leaving king s in bis anger be bad away bis best opportunity of bis wife s preposterous notion of promising bis poor little s band to a man bad seen to protect ber from a bargain be remained on the spot he felt it almost as a mis...	45
no such dinner as this would be considered complete and it may be added with whose presence no dinner which included both sexes could be conducted with strict propriety he had just returned from london and the squire was anxious to talk to him for no definite reason but he had lately breathed the atmosphere in which w...	45
value or rather perhaps at less than its true value as his life depended on his not getting into a passion he controlled his emotions as well as he was able going about the house sadly and utterly unlike his former self he took every precaution to prevent his wife knowing of the incidents of his sudden illness from a s...	45
it ah sue my man was best i he d ha suited her i don t believe it she replied you should see him then you would he s growing up a fine fellow i can tell ee hush not so loud she answered rising from her seat and going to the door of the next room whither her daughter had herself to mrs s alarm there sat in a reverie her...	45
been put off by the earnest request of the young woman herself which accorded with that of her parents on the score of her youth had submitted to their wishes in this respect the understanding between them having been that he would not visit her before she was eighteen except by the mutual consent of all parties but th...	45
now added her mother severely and these must come to an end but my father oh i am sure he will not allow this i i am not ready if he could only wait a year longer if he could only wait a few months longer i oh i wish i wish my dear father were here i i will send to him instantly she broke off abruptly and falling up...	45
silence that had fallen upon her they left the park to return by another route and on the open road passed a cottage s eye fell upon the cottage window within it she saw a young girl about her own age whom she knew by sight sitting in a chair and propped by a pillow the girl s face was covered with scales which in the ...	45
mrs s reply to his letter but before acting upon her advice and starting for king s he made up his mind to wait another day that s father might at least have time to write to him if so minded the returned traveller much desired to obtain the squire s assent as well as his wife s to the proposed visit to his bride that ...	45
fear have we passed three man yet not yet by a long ways sir i wish we had i can hardly hold on the squire could not repress a groan now and then and knew he was in great pain i a group op noble wish i was that s the place for such fools as i i d gladly be there if it were not for mistress he s coming on to king s to ...	45
that evening at king s court so he rode and rode and hopeful by turns he felt assured that unless in the unfortunate event of the almost immediate arrival of her son in law at his own heels mrs a group of would not be able to hinder s departure for her father s bedside it was about nine o clock that having put twenty m...	45
lonely and solitary length of the old roman road now called long ash lane by this time they were rather alarmed at their own performance for they were both young and inexperienced hence they proceeded almost in silence till they came to a mean road side inn which was not yet closed when who had held on to him with much...	45
her kindness forbearance even had forgiven her for an passion which he might with some reason have notwithstanding her cruel position as a child into marriage ere able to understand its bearings her mother in her grief and remorse for the life she had led with her rough though open hearted husband made now a creed of h...	45
that the foregoing story partly told partly read from a manuscript was made to do duty for the papers on the first op ox horns and such like that usually occupied the more serious attention of the members this club was of an and character to a degree indeed remarkable for the part of england in which it had its being ...	45
the young lady had never laid down at all the bed being circumstances seemed to prove that the girl had feigned to get an excuse for leaving the ball room and that she had left the house within ten minutes during the first dance after supper i saw her go said lord the devil you did says sir john yes and he mentioned t...	45
they would fall on their naked knees and be most dutiful children for then sir john and his lady sat down again by the fireplace with the four arch and consulted and the letter sir john if the truth must be told loved his daughter s happiness far more poor man than he loved his op the house op name and he recalled to h...	45
might be in store for her by reason of this she went out very little for on the one or two occasions on which she had shown herself to former friends she noticed a distinct difference in their manner as though they should say ah my happy s wife you re caught s letters were as affectionate as ever even more affectionate...	45
at being ready and furnished she withdrew thither with her maids where for the first time she could feel mistress of a home that would be hers and her husband s exclusively when he came after long weeks had recovered sufficiently to be able to write himself and slowly and tenderly he enlightened her upon the full exten...	45
can you bear such a thing of the house near you judge for yourself your your man has come to this the poor lady stood beside him motionless save for the restlessness of her eyes all her natural sentiments of affection and pity were driven clean out of her by a sort of panic she had just the same sense of dismay and f t...	45
brass was required anywhere at all in the neighborhood as a offering from a distracted soul the last century greatly in this respect with the happy times in which we live when urgent appeals for to such objects pour in by every morning s post and nearly all churches have been made to look like new as the poor lady cou...	45
to forward the figure arriving at a time when the was beginning to have little secrets of a harmless kind it is true from her husband by reason of their growing she replied to this letter without saying a word to lord sending off the balance that was owing to the and telling him to despatch the statue to her without de...	45
he reveal that he had seen her presently when she had laid down affecting to wake he asked her some trivial questions yes she replied lord became convinced that she was in the habit of leaving the chamber in this queer way more frequently than he had observed and he determined to watch the next midnight he feigned deep...	45
the noise of a heavy fall lord sprang out of bed he hastened along the dark corridor to the door of the which stood and by the light of the candle within saw his poor young lying in a heap in her night dress on the a of noble floor of the closet when he reached her side he found that she had fainted much to the relief ...	45
and when she did so a considerable change of noble seemed to have taken place in her emotions she flung her arms around him and with of fear kissed him many times at last bursting into tears she had never wept in this scene before you ll take it away dearest you will she begged if you love me i oh i do and hate him a...	45
affection the story had suggested that he should try to to them one which he had used to hear in his youth and which afforded an instance of the latter and better kind of feeling his heroine being also a lady who had married beneath her though he feared his narrative would be of a much kind than the surgeon s the club ...	45
and him for it had revealed a change in the of st b her cold reason had come to his lofty wife she was beginning to have more anxiety about her own position and prospects than for him whether from the agitation of this perception or not he was seized with a he gasped rose and in moving towards the window for air he utt...	45
it might have been better to honestly confess the truth but having reached this stage without discovery or suspicion she determined to make another effort towards conceal the of ment and a bright idea struck her as a means of securing it i think i mentioned that before she cast eyes on the unfortunate steward s clerk h...	45
explanation so well with the details of her lover s latter movements those strange and sudden return the of which had occasionally puzzled his friends that nobody supposed for a moment that the second actor in these secret was other than she the actual and whole truth would indeed have seemed a preposterous assertion...	45
in a few minutes these two poor young women the of felt as so many in a strait have felt before that union was their greatest strength even now and they consulted calmly together the result of their was that went home as usual and lady also the latter that very night to the her mother of the marriage and to nobody else...	45
suppose the of that he wouldn t but not wishing to insult by comparing their positions she said he is my own flesh and blood not yours flesh and blood s nothing said flashing with as much scorn as a could show to a which in this case was not so little as may be supposed but i will agree to put it to him and let him se...	45
like quivering occasions but as as if he had been taught a of noble it in s speaker yet he hesitated a little for he had something to add my pretty he said she was not very pretty by the way i have you must know a little girl dependent upon me a little i found one day in a patch of wild such was this worthy s humor ...	45
noble was when you first found her that you told him this r exactly it was then he fell into thought and neither sir nor lady took the trouble to answer the lawyer s letter and so the matter ended for the time one day at dinner on their return from a short absence in town whither they had gone to see what the world ...	45
rural in manners and she felt abashed by new sounds and ideas from without she hardly knew three words in any language but her own while this divine creature though truly english had apparently whatever she wanted in the italian and french to suit every impression which was considered a great improvement to speech in t...	45
think of who occupied her time and affection as fully as lady s were occupied by her precious boy in the course of time the doubly desired and married i believe a respectable road the same if i mistake not who repaired and improved the old highway running from south through the new forest and in the heart of this wor...	45
comparative strangers by reason of the necessity he was under of returning to look after his properties the wedding took place and maria left her uncle s mansion with her husband going in the first place to london and about a fortnight after sailing with him across the great ocean for their distant home which however ...	45
maria lifted her head as lady and left with her husband and child for his home as where she was quite unknown a justification or a condemnation of her step according as you view it was seen when not long after she received a note from her former husband it was a hasty and tender and perhaps it was fortunate that it arr...	45
s in his play under such he looked in the child s face saw there his wife s countenance though he did not see his own and fell into thought on the of childhood particularly of despised and rejected childhood like this before him from that hour try as he would to the feeling the human necessity to love something or oth...	45
mentally noted their gifts from of lands purchases and buildings more particularly their political and military achievements which had been great and their performances in arts and letters which had been by no means contemptible he studied prints of the portrait of that family and then like a watching a began to examin...	45
for this mere of a wretched old uncle whose very name he wished to forget the boy s christian name even was an and an irony for it implied hereditary force and brilliancy to which he plainly would never attain the consolation of real was always left him certainly but he could not help groaning to himself why s lady can...	45
great grief when they were alone in the tent he clasped her in his arms for he had not seen her since those happier days when at the commencement of the war her husband and himself had been of the same mind about the arbitrary conduct of the king and had little dreamed that they would not go to extremes together she wa...	45
the ancient and family of the or now extinct in the male line whose name according to the local was interpreted to mean though certain members of the family were averse to the latter and a was fought by one of them on the lady that account as is well known with this however we are not now concerned in the early part of...	45
her under what she had deemed his neglect the lady herself suffered more she had not long been the wife of sir john gale before he showed a disposition to upon her for the trouble and delay she had put him to in winning her with increasing he would tell her that as far as he could perceive she was an article not worth ...	45
for her husband s departure occurred to her appalled mind and a loss of health became quickly ap the lady parent she thin in the face and the veins in her temples could all be distinctly traced an inner fire seemed to be withering her away her rings fell off her fingers and her arms hung like the of the though they had...	45
her for her folly in thinking of that milk and water parson but as time went on his charges took a more positive shape he would not believe her assurance that she had in a group of no way communicated with her former lover nor he with her since their parting in the presence of her father this led to some strange scenes...	45
for to mild proportions the feverish regrets which would occasionally arise and him when he indulged in visions of what might have been had he not to the whispers of conscience he fixed his thoughts for so many hours a day on philosophical passages in the volumes he had brought with him allowing himself now and then a ...	45
on reaching the castle he found that the great gates at the s entrance were thrown back against the wall as if they were never to be closed again that the passages and rooms in that wing were brilliantly lighted up some of the numerous candles down over the green leaves which decorated them and upon the silk dresses of...	45
no trunks they could not guess for though she had little money in her pocket she had that about her which would have fetched it we buried her at sea continued the captain a young parson one of the cabin passengers read the burial service over her i remember well the whole scene and proceedings darted upon s recollectio...	45
the front door was closed and as if to express still more fully the sealed and state of the establishment a sand bag was placed at the bottom to keep out the snow drift the wind setting in directly from that quarter the landlord entering his own parlor walked a of noble to the large fire which it was absolutely necessa...	45
after all early enough to deliver you if it had not been for the of your cousin captain who on my discovering your flight this morning offered with a for which i can never sufficiently thank him to accompany me on my journey as the only male relative i have near me come do you hear put on your things we are off at on...	45
the whole affair if you are man and wife as it seems you are get reconciled as best you may i have no more to say or do with either of you i leave you in the hands of your husband and much joy may you bring him though the situation i own is not encouraging saying this the indignant speaker pushed back his chair against...	45
flow of the little water fall the singer waited in a fixed attitude for a few minutes then turning he rapidly his steps over the intervening towards the road and in less than a quarter of an hour was at the door of the hotel slipping quietly in as the clock struck ten he said to the landlord over the bar the bill as so...	45
might down the hill till coming to an opening in the fence she scrambled through it and plunged into the which bordered this portion of the lane here she stood the honorable in hiding under one of the large bushes clinging closely to its as to seem but a portion of its mass and listening intently for the faintest sound...	45
a woman who had mental troubles to bear in addition to the ordinary weight of years be this as it may eleven other came and went and remained the lonely mistress of house and lands without once hearing of her husband every probability seemed to favor the assumption that he had died in some foreign land and offers for h...	45
sitting on into the small hours over their pipes and glasses and up yet more of family history but the majority murmured reasons for soon getting to their lodgings it was quite dark without except in the immediate neighborhood of the feeble street lamps and before a few shop windows which had been kept open in spite of...	45
the newspaper and s other chapters more especially addressed to readers in the and the as sketches my thanks are to the and of those for me now t o piece the limbs of the novel together and print it complete as originally written two years ago i will add that the story is sent out in all sincerity of purpose as an atte...	45
he therefore hides his personality behind a s shutters and cries shame so is the world thronged that any shifting of positions even the best advance hurts somebody s heels such of ten begin in sentiment and sentiment sometimes begins iu a novel t h of the d the maiden i ox ru evening in the latter part of may a middle ...	45
thank you not this evening yon had enough already concluding thus the m i on his way with doubts as to his discretion in tl curious bit of lore he was gone walked a few steps iq the maiden reverie and down upon the grassy bv tie roadside his basket before him in ii few minutes a youth in the distance walking m the sa...	45
and till recent times the country was wooded even now trace of its earlier condition are to be found in tlie old oak and irregular of timber that yet survive upon it slopes and the hollow trees that shade so many its pastures the forests have departed but some old of shades remain many however linger only in a or disgu...	45
a way of sting the middle of her top one upward when they tt ther after a word phases of her in her ct still as s walked along to day for all her handsome you could see her twelfth year in cheeks or her ninth sparkling from her eyes and even fifth would over the curves of her mouth now and then yet few knew and still ...	45
of the royal oak our real i name being don t that make your bosom i swell on thin that your father rode a the carriage not he d been drinking us supposed of that will it do us any good oh yes that great things may t no doubt a string of folk of own rank will down here in their carriages as soon as tis known t father le...	45
a man in indifferent health te s of the d who proposed to start ou a before one in the ought not to be at an at late liis blood she said presently to her do you put ou your hat you t afraid i and go a to s aud see wliat has of father i mother the boy jumped promptly from his seat and opened i door and the night swall...	45
yo liking go away and play on the stairs till father and be ready well ought to go to this other ri of our family she d bo to win the lady would and likely enough lead to some noble ing her in short know it tried her fate in the and it brought out that v ty thing you should ha seen how she t i day her skin is aa a...	45
with the lantern some bread and butter and ir own conversation the real morning being far from i as ho more fully awoke for he had l in ft sort of trance ho far began to talk of the strange k by the various dark objects against tlie sky of this tree that like a raging tiger springing from ft of that which resembled a g...	45
as soon as i can it will soon be daylight and you have nothing to he mounted and sped on bis way while stood waited the atmosphere turned pale the birds themselves in the hedges arose and showed all its white features and hers t li the huge pool of of her was the of and when i sun rose a million hues were reflected fr ...	45
he i m the head of i i noblest branch of the family and i ought to live up it his reasons tor staying away were worse to than i own objection to going well as i killed the se she said i suppose i ought to do i don t mind going and seeing her but yon leave it to me about asking for help and go g about her making a matc...	45
i ve been what has said wearily her mother ed the up and down with approval and went on so you ve em how do you know mother i i ve had a letter then remembered that there would have been jn t time for this they say mrs d says that she wants y to look after a little poultry farm which is her but this is only her art...	45
also weighed the argument her father alone preserved an attitude lit y i will go said at last her mother could not repress her consciousness of the vision ed up by the girl s consent thai s for such a pretty it is a fine chance i hope it is a chance for earning money it is no other of yon had better say of that silly ...	45
broken down like myself can n lie shall ii it tor a but i won t upon trifles i ll n he shall it for fit tj for twenty yes pound tiiat s the lowest family honor honor and i won t take a penny less s eyes were too and her voice too choked to the bitter reproaches that were in her ht turned and went ont so the girls a...	45
very grim way then didn t yon notice it don t to frighten me sir said well i don t if any li man can manage this horse i can i won t say any living man can do it but il such has the power i am he why do you have such a horse ah wi ll may you ask it il was my fate t has killed one chap and just r i bought her nearly ...	45
t get up met no i shall walk tis five or six miles yet to t don t care if tis besides the cart is behind you artful now tell me didn t you make i on purpose t you did l of the d l her guarded silence liis suspicion then d and swore at her and c her thing he could think of for the trick ti tlie suddenly he tried to d...	45
seldom at fault as she received the bird upon her knees tf reminded of a confirmation in which mrs d urn was the bishop the fowls the young people and herself and the maid the parson and ite of the parish bringing them up at the end of the mrs d abruptly asked and her face into can yon il whistle ma t whistle tunes wh...	45
shyness of him without however any which could shyness of a new and but she wan more under his hands than a mi re com would have made her owing to her dependent upon his mother and through her helplessness upon him j m soon found that in d room was no such bu the he had the art for she had caught from musical mother ...	45
a difficulty iu opening it thi j closed np together this leading was car the queen of v who carried a basket containing her mother s own and other purchases for week the basket being large and heavy car bad l it for of on the top of her where it rode on in balance as she walked well whatever is that down thy buck car ...	45
moved with them around the shadow of h one s head i l of light formed by the moon s rays npon ii glistening sheet of dew each could see no il but his or her own which never deserted the head whatever its might be tn it and persistently it till the im tions seemed an inherent part of the aud the op the d of their a of ...	45
come to some road or house and our rt i ll deposit hero willingly when i i ome i ll give you full directions and if you insist upon walking you may or you may ride at your i she accepted these terms and slid off on the near side not till he had stolen a kiss he sprang on the other side i suppose i must hold the horse...	45
rest iu a mechanical way by some gate or post and n the baggage another upon her full round went steadily on again it was a sunday morning in late october about four i after a arrival at and few weeks subsequent to the night ride in the chase i time not long past daybreak and tiie yellow i ty upon the horizon behind he...	45
if certain circumstances should arise you understand in which you are in the least need the least difficulty me one line and you shall have by very iu require i may not be at i am going t don for a time i can t stand the om woman but all letters will be forwarded she said she did not wish him to drive her and they ...	45
voice but yon should read my ones them i of the d es i for and thej d make ye not but what this is a very for tlie rural ah there s a nice bit of blank wall up by that ba standing to waste i must put there one that will good for young females hke yourself to will you wait no said she and taking her basket a a little...	45
the immediate boundaries of lent s position by its a higher than it would have exercised if their interest was so deep that the younger ones red when her hack was turned how pretty she is and how that best frock do set liar il i believe it cost an immense deal and it was a l from him who was up to get the t a from the...	45

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