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a month and more meeting when and where they best could do so both being happy and content to be sure towards the latter part of that month when the first wild warmth of her love had gone off the lady sometimes wondered within herself how she who might have chosen a peer of the realm knight or if serious minded a bisho...	45
the for the cottage a group of noble door key which she placed in his cold hand then she kissed his face for the last time and with silent little sobs bade him farewell lady steps and reached the mansion without and to her great relief found the window open just as she had left it when she had climbed in she listened a...	45
consented then this noble lady took from her bosom the ring she had never been able openly to exhibit and grasping the young girl s hand slipped it upon her finger as stood upon her lover s grave shivered and bowed her head saying i feel as if i had become a corpse s bride but from that moment the maiden was heart and ...	45
and understand me perverse girl that you are and the miserable plight that i am in oh this it is the ruin of women why did i not consider and wait come give me back lai a group of noble all that i have given you and assure me you will support me in the truth never never persisted with woe look at this look at my gown ...	45
strong that at length it seemed to her that she could not live without announcing herself to him as his mother come what might she would do it late as it was she would have him away from that woman whom she began to hate with the of a deserted heart for having taken her place as the mother of her only child she felt co...	45
compare in the most leisurely way the dry which ultimately the persons of kings and with the that is usually the final shape of and others who take their last rest out of doors then if you are in love you can by in the and behind the with the bright eyed one so steep and mellow your ecstasy in the around that it will a...	45
asked his wife glancing at the sheet oh it is from an old lawyer at bath whom i used to know he reminds me of something i said to him four or five years ago some little time before we were married about what about her it was a casual remark i made to him when i thought you might not take kindly to her that if he knew...	45
without her generosity in this respect having been rewarded by the new life she found in her love for the little girl her husband to the same uncomfortable subject when a few days later they were speaking of travelling abroad he said that it was almost a pity if they thought of going that they had not fallen in with th...	45
as herself the season drew on when it was the custom for families of distinction to go off to the bath and sir persuaded his wife to accompany him thither with everybody of any note was there this year from their own part of england came many that they knew among the rest lord and lady the earl and of sir john the lady...	45
and bearing her indoors to her room he her nobody in the house knowing of the incident but himself she had not been long enough to lose her senses and soon recovered she owned that she had done it because the had taken away her child as she persisted in calling her husband spoke sternly to her and impressed upon her th...	45
my child she only took you to live with her because she was lonely you know then can t i stay at park with my other mamma and you a group of noble am afraid that cannot be done either said he sadly we have a baby in the house now he closed the reply by stooping down and kissing her there being a tear in his eye then n...	45
was of dutch and occasionally came to england on business or pleasure from his in on the north coast of south america where he usually resided on this account he was naturally but little known in and was but a slight acquaintance of the gentleman at whose mansion he was a guest however the friendship between him and th...	45
ample opportunity during the following autumn and winter months her husband being a fact nobleman who spent the greater part of his time in field sports and one winter day when he had started for a meet of the hounds a long way from the house it being his to hunt three or four times a week at this season of the year ...	45
by reason of his civility and intelligence before lady knew anything of the matter much therefore did he surprise her when she found him in the of her mansion a week or two after his arrival the punishment of instant dismissal with which at first she threatened him my lady thought fit on reflection not to enforce while...	45
view matters with much philosophy a few of the members doubted the possibility of this the crimson man who was a retired of comfortable means and short in stature cleared his throat blew off his superfluous breath and proceeded to give the instance before alluded to of such possibility first for his heroine s lack of a...	45
upon him considerably and he was gathered to his fathers like the most charitable man in his neighbourhood both wife and being buried settled down to his usual life as well as he was able mentally satisfied that he had by prompt action defeated the consequences of such dire domestic treachery as had been shown towards ...	45
in this light the more strongly did his poor wife s conduct in improving the blood and breed of the family win his heart he considered what ugly idle hard drinking many of his own relations had been the miserable and that he had numbered among a group of noble his forefathers and the probability that some of bad qualit...	45
crisis in her life his inquiries elsewhere and the of his labours was briefly that a comparison of dates and places showed that his poor wife s assertion could not possibly have foundation in fact the young of her tender passion a highly moral and bright minded nobleman had gone abroad the year before s marriage and ...	45
likewise only matter of conjecture though there is no reason to suppose that his rage was great the extent of his as regards the was this much that while halting at a cross road near that day he had with a pretty young woman who seemed nothing loth and had invited her to the castle terrace after dark an invitation whi...	45
a group of noble husband being a pleasant man and his family though not so noble of as good as her own all things seemed to show that she had reckoned wisely in him with her preference but what may lie behind the still and silent veil of the future none can in the course of a few months the husband of her choice died o...	45
him as in old times my husband just now is he will grow better in a day or two maybe you must call again and see him before you leave as she said this their eyes met each was thinking of her words about taking the three men in turn each thought that two thirds of that promise had been fulfilled but as if it were unplea...	45
and the one evening in the garden with which like the cries of the dying in the din of battle were the sobs of a woman not long after this it was announced that a marriage between the duke and miss was to be at a early date the wedding day came and passed and she was a nobody seemed to think of the man during the day o...	45
that was sent him long ago and had been carelessly thrown aside but for an accidental of the waste journals in his study he might not have known of the event for years at this moment of reading the duke had already been dead seven months could now no longer bind himself a group of noble down to machine made and climax ...	45
never came back here again his grace lived by himself a number of years and married this lady only twelve months before he died was in a state of indescribable bewilderment but as he was he called the next day on the to him of at first she was alarmed at his statement then cold then she was won over by his condition to...	45
such long separated lovers were ultimately united he also liked stories that were more modern in their date of action than those he had heard to day members immediately requested him to give them a specimen to which the spark replied that he didn t mind as far as that went and though the vice president the man of famil...	45
room might be got ready the landlord assured him that the best upstairs parlour usually public should be kept private this evening and sent the maid to light the candles dinner was prepared for them and at the gentleman s desire served in the same apartment where the young lady having joined him they were left to the...	45
he followed his uncle and the waiter to the staircase think nephew james said the former as he paused with his foot on the first step i think we had better not be announced but take them by surprise she may go throwing herself out of the window or do some equally desperate thing yes certainly well enter and he called ...	45
how do you make that out a group of noble i have the right of a husband whose husband hers what she s my wife james well to cut a long story short i may say that she secretly married me in spite of your s about three months ago and i must add that though she cooled down rather quickly everything went on smoothly enough...	45
and she oh yes we shall be only two by and by so that as i say we will order supper for two for the lady and a gentleman whichever comes back alive will tap at her door and call her in to share the with him she s not off the premises but we must not alarm her a group of noble now and above all things we must not let t...	45
go along the path toward the and ten minutes later only one of em came back walking fast like a man who wanted to get out of the way because he had done something queer there is no manner of doubt that he pushed the other man over and mark me it will soon cause a hue and cry for that man the candle shone in the face of...	45
was made for but as yet there was no intelligence of his whereabouts though the communicated all she knew as far as could be judged he had come back to the carriage after searching out the way and finding the young lady missing had looked about for her till he was tired then had driven on to cliff martin sold the horse...	45
of her in church the other day and she noticed how exactly your hair matched her own ever since then she s been for it and at last decided to get it as she won t wear it till she goes oft abroad she knows nobody will recognize the change i m to get it for her and then it is to be made up i shouldn t have all these mile...	45
the temperature of the night without had fallen so low as to make her she opened a large blue umbrella to ward draught from the door the two sovereigns confronted er from the looking glass in such a manner as to a pair of eyes on the watch for an whenever she sighed for weariness she lifted her gaze towards them but wi...	45
and even if i do it may not be a good thing for her i want her to marry his companion repeated the name well it is all right she said presently he the very ground she walks on only he s close and won t show it much south appeared startled and could not tear herself away yes the timber merchant asserted he knew that wel...	45
the gardens and that had been the blood of the that their human neighbors were on the move withdrew from and were seen and heard no more that day the daylight revealed the whole of mr s home stead of which the wagon sheds had been an it formed three sides of an open and consisted of all sorts of buildings the largest a...	45
the topic at present handled was a highly popular and frequent one the personal character of mrs the owner of the surrounding woods and groves my brother in law told me and i no reason to doubt it said that she d sit down to her dinner with a frock hardly higher than her elbows oh you wicked woman he said to himself w...	45
given solely in of his scheme for the pair he had made up his mind to the course as a duty and was bent upon following it out accompanied by he now turned towards the door of the house when his footsteps were heard by the men as well john and lot he said nodding as he entered a morning tis sir i said for not having as ...	45
of and in every one of which recognized some the act which had its been made known he would wisely have from repeating on a summons by to breakfast he left the shed reaching the kitchen where the family in winter to save house labor he sat down by the fire and looked a long time at the pair of dancing shadows cast by e...	45
he suddenly lifted his eyes in a direction away from his face simultaneously with recognition and surprise she followed his gaze and saw walking across to him a young creature in whom she perceived the features of her she had known as miss grace but now looking and refined above her former level being fixed to the spot...	45
her eyes sufficiently to hide the details of the it occurred to that she might take hold behind this carriage and so keep along with it to save herself the mortification of being overtaken and picked up for pity s sake by the coming pair accordingly as the carriage drew abreast of her in climbing the long ascent she wa...	45
could not lose sight of whose would have addressed with a sir or adam beside this scene the homely did not quite hold their own from her present twenty year point of survey for all his knew the primitive simplicity of the subject he had started and now sounded a deeper note twas very odd what we said to each other yea...	45
moments their presence was discovered and her father and step mother came out to welcome her the character of the family was of that kind which some shyness in showing strong emotion among each other a trait frequent in rural and one which stands in curiously relation to most of the peculiarities villagers from the peo...	45
to and fro before its beams from its position it seemed to from the window of a house on the hill side the house had been empty when she was last at home and she wondered who inhabited the place now her conjectures however were not intently carried on and she was watching the light quite idly when it gradually changed ...	45
many a year yet bless ye i hope you will i am sure the girl thereupon fell into such deep reflection that conversation and taking her candle wished miss good night the latter s eyes rested on the distant glimmer around which she allowed her reasoning fancy to play in vague that shaped the doings of the philosopher behi...	45
naturally be present thereupon remembered that he wanted a few and entered upon the scene a large group of stood round the or followed him when between his pauses he wandered on from one lot of plantation produce to another like some philosopher of the school delivering his lectures in the shady groves of the his compa...	45
of that i nearly had f oi ot it just now too there are matters of a kind from trade to attend to so don t let it concern ye as the timber merchant spoke as it were down to him from a higher moral plane than his own turned to mrs grace is going to the to morrow she said quietly she is looking out her things now i dare s...	45
opening from the hall when miss was announced and saw her through the glass doors between them she came d with a the on her f ace and told the girl it was good of her to come ah yon have noticed those she said seeing that grace s eyes were attracted by some objects against the walls they are man traps my husband was a ...	45
is she said if he is going to practise upon us as a have you seen grace had not i think he is not a very old man she added has he a wife i am not aware that he has well i hope he will be useful here i must get to know him when i come back it will be very convenient to have a medical man if he is clever in one s own p...	45
under which the delicate all laid themselves out in their proper directions for growth he put most of these roots towards the south west for he said in forty years time when some great gale is blowing from that quarter the trees will require the strongest on that side stand against it and not fall how sigh directly w e...	45
ee when he reached home that evening he said to grace and mrs who were working at a little table by the fire the wants us to go down and spend an with him the day after to morrow and fm thinking that as tis who asks us we ll go they assented without and accordingly the sent the next morning an answer in the affirmative...	45
of the room and r will hold a wa er with that air these marks are y two accompanied by strokes with the chalk on the table then an exclamation an argument a dealing of the cards then the commencement of the anew the timber merchant showed his feelings by talking with a satisfied sense of weight in his words and by the ...	45
i m some things didn t go well with he and his nodded in a direction which signified where the lived i m afraid too that it was a failure there if so doomed to be so not but what that might as well have come upon anybody else s plate as hers well there was a little one upon the edge of her plate when i brought it out a...	45
from friend she said nothing but he who knew her was aware that she meant by her silence to reproach him with drawing cruel mrs has asked you to come when did you say she thought tuesday but would send the day before to let me know if it suited her and with this subject upon their lips they entered to breakfast tuesday...	45
had accidentally met the was asking if he had heard what was all over the parish the skin of his face being drawn two ways on the matter towards brightness in respect of it as news and towards concern in respect of it as circumstance why that poor thing south is likely to lose her father he was almost well but is much...	45
the ground beside grace t the bnt he continued motionless and silent in that gloomy or fog land which involved him and she proceeded on her way the spot seemed now to he quite deserted the light from south s window made rays on the fog but did not reach the tree a quarter of an hour passed and all was blackness overhe...	45
tone which in point of fact did not at all attach to its conductor s feelings walked behind the timber and just as he had got past the yet stationary carriages he heard a soft voice say who is that rude man not f the sex of the speaker was so prominent in the voice that felt a pang of regret no ma am a younger man in a...	45
than ever looked round at it taller the tree certainly did seem the of its now naked stem being more marked than before it quite terrified him when he first saw what you had done to it this morning she added he declares it will come down upon us and us like the sword of the lord and of well can i do anything else asked...	45
not fell it completely then on account of the possible crash but next morning before south was awake they went and lowered it cautiously in a direction away from the cottage it was a business difficult to do quite silently but it was done at last and the elm of the same birth year as the s lay stretched upon the ground...	45
all round everybody thought of nobody thought of had any of them looked in upon her during those moonlight nights which preceded the burial of her father they would have seen the girl absolutely alone in the house with the dead man her own chamber being nearest the stairs the coffin had been placed there for convenienc...	45
be worth much i have not altered it but you have no it is altered go and see she went and read that in spite of losing his he would keep his grace came back surprised well i never she said who can have made such nonsense of it who indeed said he i have rubbed it all out as the point of it is quite gone you d no busines...	45
dew which through the waste air s blue to some far desert she did seem beside me gathering beauty as she grew like the bright shade of some immortal dream which walks when deep the wave of life s dark stream the of the lines seemed to though he divined that they were a quotation to be somehow the result of his lost lov...	45
never till now lain down for such a reason in her life like others to whom unbroken the of health has made the idea of keeping their bed almost as as death itself she had continued on foot till she literally fell on the floor and though she had as yet been scarcely a day off duty she had into quite a different personag...	45
trees on the garden plots where no vegetables would grow for the dripping though they were planted year after year with that curious mechanical regularity of country people in the face of the moss which covered the once broad gravel terrace was and grace stood then she thought of poor and her dreams of the doctor runni...	45
the small hours had hitherto been his practice but to day he could not settle into his chair that self contained position he had lately occupied in which the only attention demanded was the of the inner eye all outer regard being quite seemed to have been taken by and for the first time he had an interest outside the h...	45
it enter the young girl of his thoughts grace having just at this juncture v to and attempt the interview a second time that he saw her coming instead of going made him ask himself if his first impression of her were not a dream indeed she came hesitatingly along carrying her umbrella so low over her head that he hardl...	45
she had paused i did not see you directly but reflected in the glass i thought what a lovely creature the design is for once carried out nature has at last recovered her lost union with the idea my thoughts ran in that direction because i had been reading the work of a philosopher last night and i dare say it was the d...	45
present as it rather than presence grace would serve to keep his soul alive and to relieve the monotony of his days his first notion acquired from the mere sight of her without converse that of an idle and vulgar with a timber merchant s pretty daughter painfully upon him now that he had found what grace was personal...	45
as outside that the rs apple valley was never seen the blue the were in a blaze of bloom some of the richly trees almost up to where they drove along over a gate which opened down the incline a man leaned on his arms regarding this fair promise so intently that he did not observe their passing that was said when they h...	45
this virtuous man you mention has been refused by you she could do no otherwise than admit it i do not inquire without good reason ood forbid that i should kneel in another s place at any shrine but my dear miss now that he is gone may i draw near i i can t say anything about t t she cried quickly because when a man h...	45
shelter him the days of grace since it fell into hand having expired and was t ng down his and with a view to an early exit next morning his encounter with mrs had cost him dearly when they had proceeded a little farther was joined by who was as young as the youngest in such matters and grace and mrs went on by themsel...	45
rest was one of the first to return and the excitement being she ran laughing towards who still stood as a hand post to guide her then passing on she flew round the fatal bush where the to a arrived at her heels just in time to see the result had quickly stepped forward in front of who to shift his position had turned ...	45
to himself and the unusual place and hour were sufficient to account for any among the daughters at him he paused and looked round as if he had forgotten where he was not observing who was of the color of his the latter advanced into the light the gentleman held up his hand and came towards the two meeting half way i h...	45
she came headlong round the bush had never ceased to linger with him ever since he adopted the for which the hour and the moonlight and the occasion had been the only excuse now she was to be sent away ambition it could be postponed family culture and of tastes had taken the place of family nowadays he allowed himself ...	45
door through which he had disappeared what has the got in his head now f said the elder to do with that of his when you ve got a maid of yer own john that costs ye what she costs him that will take the out of your im the sunday shoes john bat yoa ll never be tall enough to accomplish such as she and tis a thing for ye ...	45
of long established families as such of their personal condition or character which is still found among old fashioned people in the rural districts reached its full intensity in his daughter s was descended from a family he had heard of in his ther s time as being once great a family which had conferred its name upon ...	45
waited her husband walked in and out from the timber yard stared at the interior of the room jerked out ay ay and retreated again between four and five arrived his horse to the hook outside the door as soon as he had walked in and perceived that grace was not in the room he seemed to have a nothing less than her actual...	45
fu marry if you say i must as an alternative her father s face settled into he turned pale and came deliberately out of the plot before he answered her she had never seen him look so before now to me he said there s a time for a woman to alter her mind and there s a time when she can no longer alter it if she has any r...	45
t said he believed of her doubt somewhat and ever anxious to please she was disposed to settle the matter yet she would not her opportunity of asking a concession of some sort if our wedding can be at church i say yes she answered in a measured voice if not i say no was generous in his turn it shall be so he rejoined g...	45
she had little anxieties a curious seemed to rule her and she experienced a mournful want of some one to confide in the day loomed so big and nigh that her prophetic ear could in fancy catch the noise of it hear the murmur of the villagers as she came out of church imagine the of the three thin toned bells the seemed t...	45
mad said sternly don t speak of that any more thus the subject had ended in the yard meanwhile the passive cause of all this loss still regarded the scene she was beautifully dressed she was seated in the most comfortable room that the inn afforded her long journey had been full of variety and almost performed for did...	45
something quite different he said self i don t quite like to think that she murmured with soft regret and i think you remember i was brought up with him till i was sent away to school so i cannot be different at any rate i don t feel so that is no doubt my fault and a great in me but i hope you will put up with it said...	45
grace proposed that we should all sup together as it is the first night of your return by this time grace had come round to him is it not good of them to welcome me so warmly she exclaimed with tears of friendship in her eyes after so much good feeling i could not think of our shutting ourselves up away from them in ou...	45
business connection with on whose premises kept hb ni ng now that he the had no place of his own to it in coming here one evening on his way to a beyond the wood where he now slept he noticed that the familiar brown of his paternal roof had vanished from its site and that the walls were in present circumstances he had ...	45
t wish me to stay any longer he inquired when he found that she remained musing i think not then tell me that i am to be gone why f cannot you go without i may consult my own feelings only if left to myself well if you do what then do you suppose you ll be in my way f i feared it might be so then fear no more but good ...	45
this horse to see a patient in the it was about five o clock in the evening when he went away and at he had not reached home there was nothing very singular in this though she was not aware that he had any patient more than five or six miles distant in that direction the clock had struck one before entered the house an...	45
the district of clay the character and of the two being so distinct that the appeared but as a deposit of a few years antiquity upon the level he kept along the edge of this high country and the sky behind him being deep violet she could still see white darling in relief upon it a mere speck now a reduced to dimensio...	45
her face over and above her uneasiness and did not like the look of it telling the men he would be with them again soon he walked beside her into the road and partly up the hill whence she had watched the night before across the great white or valley they halted beneath a half dead oak hollow and with white its roots s...	45
he allowed events to take their natural course she would have accepted and realized his old dream of to that young man s family that could allow himself to look on any other creature for a moment than grace filled with grief and astonishment in the pure and simple life he had led it had scarcely occurred to him that af...	45
if she had been playing with him in an idle the game might soon have wearied her but the smallest of passion and women of the world do not change color for nothing was a threatening development the mere presence of in the after his statement was as far as he was concerned but resolved yet to watch he had to wait long...	45
anything to produce the fort for he attributed her manner entirely to what he had said bat grace s manner had not its cause either in his sayings or in his doings she had not heard a single word of his regrets something even nearer home than her husband s prospects if they were was the origin of her mood a mood that ...	45
had never never thought of me i wish i worked in the woods like south i hate genteel life and i want to be no better than she why said her amazed father t cultivation has only brought me a d troubles i say again i wish you had never sent me to those fashionable schools you set your mind on it all arose out of that fath...	45
the act of making a the being driven firmly into the ground in a row over which he bent and the twigs beside him was a square compact pile like the altar of formed of already finished which on all sides with the sharp points of their at a little distance the men in his employ were assisting him to carry out his contrac...	45
loved where she has not married before mr made her his wife she was a play hey but how close you have kept all this i what besides f mr was a rich man engaged in the iron trade in the north twenty or thirty years older than she he married her and retired and came down here and bought this property as they do nowadays y...	45
of the perfect social machine hence her words very nice so charming were uttered with a that made them sound unreal yes yes said in a reverie he did not take a chair and she also remained standing resting upon his stick he began mrs i have called upon a more serious matter at least to me than tree throwing and whatev...	45
in a tone as soon as he was out of the room she went to a comer and there sat and under an emotion in which hurt pride and vexation mingled with better sentiments mrs s spirit was subject to these fierce periods of stress and storm she had never so clearly per till now that her soul was being slowly invaded by ai delir...	45
have on such occasions quite understood what had intended to convey and the picture thus exhibited to her of lives drifting away the wreck of poor s hopes prompted her to more generous than all s had been able to full of the new feeling she bade the girl good afternoon and went on over the of to where grace and were st...	45
have found him riding miles and miles across the country at midnight and his life and getting covered with mud to get a glimpse of you i have called him a foolish man the of a finished i thought that what was getting to be a tragedy to me was a comedy to yon but now i see that tragedy lies on your side of the situatio...	45
his mind it seemed even than it was his practice had been slowly of late and now threatened to die out altogether the irrepressible old dr jones up to s very door w only too well the latest and greatest cause of his and yet so is man the second branch of his sadness grew out of a measure proposed for the first a lette...	45
not be altogether unnatural in the circumstances of her possible but upon the whole he thought it best to avoid riding up to the door by silently approaching he could retreat unobserved in the event of her not being alone thereupon he dismounted darling to a stray bough hanging a little below the general line pf the tr...	45
and plead with privately as he had pleaded with mrs he accordingly retreated as silently as he had come passing the door of the drawing room anew he fancied that he a noise within which was not the of the fire gently the door to a distance of a few inches and saw at the opposite window two figures in the act of steppin...	45

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