Dear Mary! It was, indeed, not singular that she should be prepared to absp;so well, eing that in early youth she had had the advantage of an education in the Greshamsbury nurry; but not on that at was it the less fitting that her virtue should be aowledged, eulogid, nay, all but worshipped.
How the party at the doctor''s got itlf broken up, I am not prepared to say. Frank, I know, stayed and dined there, and his poor mother, who would not retire to rest till she had kisd him, and blesd him, and thanked him for all he was doing for the family, was kept waiting in her dressing-room till a very unreasonable hour of the night.
It was the squire who brought the news up to the hou. "Arabella," he said, in a low, but somewhat solemn voibsp;"you will be surprid at the news I bring you. Mary Thorne is the heiress to all the Scatcherd property!"
"Oh, heavens! Mr Gresham."
"Yes, indeed," tinued the squire. "So it is; it is very, very--" But Lady Arabella had fainted. She was a woman who generally had her feelings and her emotions mubsp;under her own trol; but what she now heard was too mubsp;for her. When she came to her ns, the first words that escaped her lips were, "Dear Mary!"
Dear Mary! It was, indeed, not singular that she should be prepared to absp;so well, eing that in early youth she had had the advantage of an education in the Greshamsbury nurry; but not on that at was it the less fitting that her virtue should be aowledged, eulogid, nay, all but worshipped.
How the party at the doctor''s got itlf broken up, I am not prepared to say. Frank, I know, stayed and dined there, and his poor mother, who would not retire to rest till she had kisd him, and blesd him, and thanked him for all he was doing for the family, was kept waiting in her dressing-room till a very unreasonable hour of the night.
It was the squire who brought the news up to the hou. "Arabella," he said, in a low, but somewhat solemn voibsp;"you will be surprid at the news I bring you. Mary Thorne is the heiress to all the Scatcherd property!"
"Oh, heavens! Mr Gresham."
"Yes, indeed," tinued the squire. "So it is; it is very, very--" But Lady Arabella had fainted. She was a woman who generally had her feelings and her emotions mubsp;under her own trol; but what she now heard was too mubsp;for her. When she came to her ns, the first words that escaped her lips were, "Dear Mary!"
But the houhold had to sleep on the news before it could be fully realid.
The squire was not by nature a merary man.
If I have at all succeeded in putting his character before the reader, he will be reid as one not over attached to money for money''s sake. But things had gone so hard with him, the world had bee so rough, so ungracious, so full of thorns, the want of means had bee an evil so keenly felt in every hour, that it ot be wo that his dreams that night should be of a golden elysium.