The Three Brides

In Su

s would b

be mad.-

room, so soon as he had made his evening toilette, and finding

"you saw what Jenkins calls th

ned Julius. "Rose is quite delighted

ed the mother. "I believe that she had a very good

a universal prejudice for the sake o

lius, amazed at such

don-but you are only going by hearsa

not seen her?

n she is likely to see

nged to call, only she did not know if you could see her. I do hope you will, whe

t me look! You aren't dressed for dinner! What will Mistress Ceci

lius remained, looking anxiously

st rather he were honestly smitten with the

one could long do

" said the mother anxiously. "I don't blame him, poor fellow!" she added eagerly, "or mean that he has been a bit less satisfactory-oh no! Indeed, it may

Mrs. Poynsett had not been a woman of intimate female friends. Her sons had served the purpose, and this was perhaps one great element in her almost unbou

as had a very different bringing up from her sister, and I did not tell yo

l was taking to the educ

self Reynolds, and said he lived with granny, but was not a

ember a pretty-looking girl we had in the nursery in

little boys could be excited to fury if we assumed th

holiday in the race week, and a day at the course seems to have done the mischief. Susan can tell you all about it, if yo

become of

n seen with some of the people who appear on the race-course wit

are the bane of the country. I

ry pleasant co

your county meeting without doing quite so much har

nt of Wil'sbro' and Backsworth, the harvest of all the tradespeople. Besides

reed of horses to preven

w for a clergyman, but it will never do to force it her

rained about the hippodrome

y little of him since his University days; and though always a good and conscientious person, there had been nothing to draw her out of secular modes of t

r. At the first opportunity after dinner, Frank got Rosamond up into a corner w

and being experienced in raving brothers, she praised the

hat way. Even Julius must be c

she grew

the kindest, most open-hearted woman in the world, to distrust and bear a grudge again

as entirely on his ac

what are they to be cast up against a woman in her widowho

clusion be that she knew m

his own people could be with him, we-his Oxford friends, I mean-took turns to come to him; and as I had just gone up for my degree, I had the most time. The Vivians had been living there ever since they went on poor Emily's account. They did not like to leave the place where she died you see; and

now the styl

s if Lenore was not a perfect darling with the Vicar and his wife, and her sister too; and Rockpier is a regular tip-top place for Church, you know. I'm sur

aracter, though I don't see how it could have formed better; but Lady Tyrrell is a thoroughly careful motherly sister, and thought it right she should see a little of the world. So they broke up from Rockpi

greeable people were s

ree parts of my time is taken up by this eternal cramming-I should have no heart for it but for her-and I can't be going over to Sirenwood as I used to go to Rockpier, while my mother v

anything has pas

thing but Rockpier; but she as good as promised to stand my friend. And when I get to the of

e she will wa

help us when you get into your own house, and you will get Julius to see it in a proper light. Mother trusts to hi

ome up about the puppies.-What, Rosamond, has he got

d and put into the church porch, when Raymond came in from the other room to make up a whist-table for his mother. Rosamond gladly

. "Anne, you are too tired to play?-No, Julius, the pa

d his brother, with his hands full of cards, unconscious of the expre

d, as soon as the door was shut. "

used without them, I suppose we shall have to learn

may be," said Anne, gathering strength; "nay, ev

Oh no, it is stupid and silly, and a

Anne. "Cards are th

t to play in the evening to amuse

set upon better things," said Anne. "I shall not

any dull old person came there. What a troublesome crooked hand Julius writes-just like Greek! What's all this? So man

superstitiou

. "I am sure my father would consent to nothing

a minister should try to make up for worldly

all him a minister, it

s their best name

h all the people to call Julius the Rector. That's

liness; and Cecil betook herself to the piano, but th

aid Raymond, "but three of them mu

. I want you to spe

d to go to them all,

ecil. "Evening services are very bad for the people

and I am not,

ing without papa's

Harry the Eighth of your father," said Raymo

on't a

pprove. It is not a matt

has been all though

to go to bed, and you a

keep the clergyman in order, more especially when he was her own husband's younger brother? so she met her brot

time to paint? Then Bindon

e; but I do not think such a

aid he, loo

contempt. I heard papa say so. We only had regular Sunday and Saint's Day services

; "but as I am afraid Compton is not as religious a place as there is need

s not sure that he had no