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to live with them, but kept the

cottage near the river at Twickenham. Hugh Stanbury was very averse to

any protracted connection with comforts to be obtained from poor

Trevelyan’s income, and told Nora that he must hold her to her promise

about the beefsteak in the cupboard. It is our opinion that Mr and Mrs

Hugh Stanbury will never want for a beefsteak and all comfortable

additions until the inhabitants of London shall cease to require

newspapers on their breakfast tables.

 

Brooke and Mrs Brooke established themselves in the house in the Close

on their return from their wedding tour, and Brooke at once put himself

into intimate relations with the Messrs Croppers, taking his fair

share of the bank work. Dorothy was absolutely installed as mistress in

her aunt’s house with many wonderful ceremonies, with the unlocking of

cupboards, the outpouring of stores, the giving up of keys, and with

many speeches made to Martha. This was all very painful to Dorothy, who

could not bring herself to suppose it possible that she should be the

mistress of that house, during her aunt’s life. Miss Stanbury, however,

of course persevered, speaking of herself as a worn-out old woman,

with one foot in the grave, who would soon be carried away and put out

of sight. But in a very few days things got back into their places, and

Aunt Stanbury had the keys again. ‘I knew how it would be, miss,’ said

Martha to her young mistress, ‘and I didn’t say nothing, ‘cause you

understand her so well.’

 

Mrs Stanbury and Priscilla still live at the cottage, which, however,

to Priscilla’s great disgust, has been considerably improved and

prettily furnished. This was done under the auspices of Hugh, but with

funds chiefly supplied from the house of Brooke, Dorothy, and Co.

Priscilla comes into Exeter to see her sister, perhaps, every other

week, but will never sleep away from home, and very rarely will eat or

drink at her sister’s table. ‘I don’t know why, I don’t’ she said to

Dorothy, ‘but somehow it puts me out. It delays me in my efforts to

come to the straw a day.’ Nevertheless, the sisters are dear friends.

 

I fear that in some previous number a half promise was made that a

husband should be found for Camilla French. That half-promise cannot be

treated in the manner in which any whole promise certainly would have

been handled. There is no husband ready for Cammy French. The reader,

however, will be delighted to know that she made up her quarrel with

her sister and Mr Gibson, and is now rather fond of being a guest at Mr

Gibson’s house. On her first return to Exeter after the Gibsons had

come back from their little Cornish rustication, Camilla declared that

she could not and would not bring herself to endure a certain dress of

which Bella was very fond, and as this dress had been bought for Camilla

with special reference to the glories of her anticipated married life,

this objection was almost natural. But Bella treated it as absurd, and

Camilla at last gave way.

 

It need only further be said that though Giles Hickbody and Martha are

not actually married as yet, men and women in their class of life always

moving towards marriage with great precaution, it is quite understood

that the young people are engaged, and are to be made happy together at

some future time.

 

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