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106 BLACK SHEEP.He found his step-son and Mark Fulton inMrs. Carruthers's room. The day yvaschilly anclgloomy, ancl eminently suggestive of the advantagespossessed by an English country mansionover the most commodious and expensive of foreignlodging-houses. George hacl just placed ashawl round his mother's shoulders,and yvas improvingthe fastenings of the windows, whichwerein their normal condition in foreign parts."Mark has been talking about Poynings,"said Mrs. Carruthers, turning to her husbandwith a smile, " ancl says he never saw aplace headmired more, though he hacl only a passingglimpse ofit."Mr. Carruthers yvas pleased, though of courseit was only natural that Mr. Felton should neverhave seen anyplace more to be admired by personsof well-regulated taste than Poynings."Of course," he said, yvith modest admission," if you come to talk about the Dukeries, anclthat kind of thing, there's nothing to be said forPoynings. But it is a nice place,andIam veryfond of it,and so is Laura."He yvas rather alarmed, when he had said this,
MOVING ON.107to observe his wife's eyes full of tears.Tearsindicated recollection, and of a painful kind, hethought, being but little acquainted yvith the intricatesymptoms of feminine humannature, yvhichrecollection must be avoided, or turned aside, inapleasurable direction.Now George's cleverness yvas a direction of therequired kind,andMr.Carruthers proceeded toremarkthat George mustmake drawings for his motherofall the favourite points of vieyv atPoynings." There's the terrace, George," he said," anclthe 'Tangle,' where your mother loves to spendthe summer afternoons, and there's the beechwood,from the hill behind the garden, ancl theThere are several spots you yvilllong avenue.like, George, and — and," said Mr. Carruthers,magnanimously, and blushing all over his notmuch withered face, like a woman, "I'm onlysorry you are to make acquaintance with them solate in the day."He put out his hand, yvith true British awkwardness,ashe spoke, and the young man tookit respectfully, and yvith an atoning pang ofshame and self-reproach. But for his mother's
- Page 64 and 65: 56 BLACK SHEEP.he, on the other han
- Page 66 and 67: 58 BLACK SHEEP.cruelty of coquetry
- Page 68 and 69: 60 BLACK SHEEP.yvith him just enoug
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- Page 72 and 73: 64 BLACK SHEEP.sign which his capto
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- Page 76 and 77: 68 BLACK SHEEP.ever, yvith hope, yv
- Page 78 and 79: 70 BLACK SHEEP.coming light and eas
- Page 80 and 81: 72 BLACK SHEEP.bleyv and raged over
- Page 82 and 83: 74 BLACK SHEEP.How dreary the place
- Page 84 and 85: 76 BLACK SHEEP.he sawa man standing
- Page 86 and 87: 78 BLACK SHEEP.Rich purple amethyst
- Page 88 and 89: 80 BLACK SHEEP."What a temper you h
- Page 90 and 91: 82 BLACK SHEEP.told you so," he con
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- Page 94 and 95: 86 BLACK SHEEP.will never swerve or
- Page 96 and 97: 88 BLACK SHEEP.as soon as he releas
- Page 98 and 99: 90 BLACK SHEEP.manner, his look yva
- Page 100 and 101: 92 BLACK SHEEP.merous progeny of a
- Page 102 and 103: 94 BLACK SHEEP.and pointing to some
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- Page 106 and 107: 98 BLACK SHEEP.technical sense that
- Page 108 and 109: 100 BLACK SHEEP.with the mysterious
- Page 110 and 111: 102 BLACK SHEEP.mother yvas the onl
- Page 112 and 113: 104 BLACK SHEEP.illness ?He set him
- Page 116 and 117: 108 BLACK SHEEP.presence, ancl the
- Page 118 and 119: 110 BLACK SHEEP.phew yvas a "good-f
- Page 120 and 121: 112 BLACK SHEEP." Ishould think you
- Page 122 and 123: 114 BLACK SHEEP.Carruthers, had sai
- Page 124 and 125: 116 BLACK SHEEP.police on this matt
- Page 126 and 127: 118 BLACK SHEEP.now. Every day her
- Page 128 and 129: 120 BLACK SHEEP.rible conviction of
- Page 130 and 131: 122 BLACK SHEEP.yvith infinitely mo
- Page 132 and 133: 124 BLACK SHEEP.change which her ne
- Page 134 and 135: 126 BLACK SHEEP.tions of maternal c
- Page 136 and 137: 128 BLACK SHEEr.ing, and then, when
- Page 138 and 139: 130 BLACK SHEEP."I am sure it has b
- Page 140 and 141: 132 BLACK SHEEP.think of me?Idare s
- Page 142 and 143: 134 BLACK SHEEP.to the area-railing
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- Page 150 and 151: 142 BLACK SHEEP.of Harriet's suppos
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MOVING ON.107to observe his wife's eyes full of tears.Tearsindicated recollection, and of a painful kind, hethought, being but little acquainted yvith the intricatesymptoms of feminine humannature, yvhichrecollection must be avoided, or turned aside, inapleasurable direction.Now George's cleverness yvas a direction of therequired kind,andMr.Carruthers proceeded toremarkthat George mustmake drawings for his motherofall the favourite points of vieyv atPoynings." <strong>The</strong>re's the terrace, George," he said," anclthe 'Tangle,' where your mother loves to spendthe summer afternoons, and there's the beechwood,from the hill behind the garden, ancl the<strong>The</strong>re are several spots you yvilllong avenue.like, George, and — and," said Mr. Carruthers,magnanimously, and blushing all over his notmuch withered face, like a woman, "I'm onlysorry you are to make acquaintance with them solate in the day."He put out his hand, yvith true British awkwardness,ashe spoke, and the young man tookit respectfully, and yvith an atoning pang ofshame and self-reproach. But for his mother's
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