Ralph the Heir
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IH. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE LAWN AT POPHAM VILLA. OIR THOMAS started for Southampton on a Friday, having under- stood that the steamer from St. Thomas would reach the harbour on Saturday morning. He wou...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IH. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE LAWN AT POPHAM VILLA. OIR THOMAS started for Southampton on a Friday, having under- stood that the steamer from St. Thomas would reach the harbour on Saturday morning. He would then immediately bring Mary Bonner np to London and down to Fulham;- and there certainly had come to be a tacit understanding that he wonld stay at home on the following Sunday. On the Friday evening the girls were alone at the villa; but there was nothing in this, as it was the life to which tHfcy. were accustomed. They habitually dined at two, calling the meal lunch,- then had a five or six o'clock tea,- and omitted altogether the ceremony of dinner. They had local acquaintances, with whom occasionally they would spend their evenings; and now and then an old maid or two,- now and then also a young maid or two would drop in on them. But it was their habit to be alone. During these days of which we are speaking Clarissa would take her " Faery Queen," nnd would work hard perhaps for half an hour. Then the " Faery Queen " would be changed for a novel, and she would look up from her book to see whether Patience had turned upon her any glance of reprobation. Patience, in the meantime, would sit with unsullied conscience at her work. And so the evenings would glide by; and in these soft summer days the girls would sit out upon the lawn, and would watch the boats of London watermen as they passed up and down below the bridge. On this very evening, the last on which they were to be together before the arrival of their cousin,- Patience came out upon the lawn with her hat and gloves. " I am going across to Miss Spooner's," she said; "will you come ? " But Clarissa was idle, and making some little joke, not very much to the honour of Miss Spooner, declared that she was het and tire...
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