Northwode Priory, By The Author Of 'Everley'.

Northwode Priory, By The Author Of 'Everley'.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1857 Excerpt: ... and try to forget these people's insolence. You will never argue me into indifference. Well; but promise that you will meet me here again, two hours hence, and we will go to Church together. Frances gave the required promise, and they directed their steps to their brother's house, which was a red brick one in the principal street, with steps leading up to the door, and five or six large windows, some of which were blank, and but a bad imitation. There was a bare, cold appearance, within the house, for much of William's furniture had been sold, to meet present expenses, and only some of the necessary rooms were furnished. Dora met them with her bonnet on, and they left Frances to execute some household commissions, while they proceeded straight to Northwode Priory, for it was a visit that would not bear much contemplation. Mabel's heart sank as they came in sight of the iron gates, and the well-known grey-stone wall, covered, as in old times, with ivy and moss, and the pretty, drooping ivy-leaved toad-flax, with its small lilac flower. It was so natural, that May almost felt as though she was going home. It was the first time she had been there since that terrible moment, when she had taken that last long gaze, and felt as if she were leaving life's sunshine behind her for ever. As the gates swung behind them, she hoped she might find great changes, that associations might not be too painfully revived. But she was not spared that pain. The lawn was the same as ever, the very flower-beds untouched. She could recognise plants and flowers, that had been tended by. her own hands; trees they had climbed as children, hrubs they had watched and pruned, and delighted observe from year to year. The hawthorn tree, i beneath which Mina's couch had been placed nine m...

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