She
had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as
she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude
and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a
correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. With Bess's assistance he then climbed up to the window, which, as has just been
stated, was secured by iron bars of great thickness crossed by a stout beam of
oak. "An idea has just occurred to me," said Gay, "which Jack's narrative has
suggested. “But if my manner tells! I cannot help it if that shows. ’
She jumped up, and moved impatiently to the door. It is not a dissipated face. The shape of the
head, the height and breadth of the brow, the angle of the nose, the cut of the
chin and jaws, all were fine, of a type she had never before looked upon closely. "
Animated by this trifling success, he proceeded with fresh ardour, and the
rapidity of his progress was proclaimed by the heap of bricks, stones, and mortar
which before long covered the floor. "
She smiled, and returned to the spinsters. The birds were singing blithely amid the trees,—the
lowing of the cows resounded from the yard,—a delicious perfume from the
garden was wafted through the open window,—at a distance, the church-bells of
Willesden were heard tolling for evening service. But I
waited in vain. "Don't weep, my love," replied the lady, straining him still more closely to her. On the fifth day he had ventured speech with her. Winifred receives two Proposals.
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