Aunt Martha or The spinster Author:Martha 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: faithful domestic, Christabelle, into the chaise destined to convey them to Bremerton. With a thick and husky voicej ill disguising the emotion he felt at their ... more »sorrow—" Farewell, my dear friends," he said; " oh! what would I give to call this loved rectory mine! But we shall meet in happier days, I trust." Having seen them drive away, he stopped but to gather a branch from the luxuriant myrtle i " This," said he to himself, " I will try to foster at Errock;" to which place he immediately bent his steps. At the town of Bremerton, Ellen found nothing to interest her; she turned her eyes from the high red brick houses opposite, with their green Venetian blinds and yellow doors, brass knockers, and well-polished bell-handles, snow- white stone steps, and windows, on which not aspot was allowed a moment's resting place, after a languid gaze, back again upon the volume before her; but her heart was at Errock. She exerted herself to be employed; but there was a listlessness of manner that shewed it was exertion. Not so, Martha; she hated a town (especially a country town) as cordially as ever Ellen did; she longed for her own dear Mere, for her walks over the common, her garden, her every pleasure left behind; but " It would be so wrong to grieve dear Ellen with her sorrow I to make Laura think she was pining; and her kind, excellent brother-in-law, Dr. Phillips, would think she could not make herself happy iii his house; no, no one should see she was unhappy; it would be very ungrateful, and it would not be following her dear father's example, not behaving like a Christian." And Martha looked around, to see what she could do to occupy herself, to be of use; and seeking for it, she foundit. There was Anne and Jane, Caroline, and Sophia, tall Richard, and fat Sammy, and little John, a...« less