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Which is the winner? Or, The first gentleman of his family
Which is the winner Or The first gentleman of his family Author:Charles Clarke 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: CHAPTER III. THE FIRST APPROACHES. ' Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest Love will find out the way.'—Ol... more »d Song. It was a very bright, hard-blowing day in March. The trees were bending to something approaching a hurricane, and the clouds flitted past in rapid succession, chasing one another through the sky. Laurence Bradfield was down in the country for a few days, having had rather a hard time of it at St. Stephen's. Weather was of little consequence to him; and having invited his sister to a walk with him, which she had declined, he took his way alone to the cottage at Spring Vale, pretty sure of finding its owner at home on such a day. For once he was mistaken. The old lady was out. ' And where is Miss Carrington gone, Nurse ? I am anxious to see her to-day.' ' I imagine she may be up at the Hall, sir,' replied her favoured domestic. ' Then I'll call again by-and-by.' Laurence Bradfield did not think it necessary to say that he had not yet the entree to those holy precincts. ' Very good, sir,' said Nurse, and shut the door with difficulty in the fac of the March wind, which carried a whirlwind of dust into the square hall. Laurence Bradfield walked into the village, and turning up the hill approached the rectory; as he came opposite to it the gate opened and Evelyn Carrington came out. They greeted each other kindly, and Bradfield looked down upon the light-hearted girl with a curious interest. At that moment she looked exceedingly pretty. Indeed, it is not certain that many men would not have preferred her to Miss Bradfield. The colour in her cheeks, the smiling dimples, the rounded chin and femininemouth with its dainty pearls within, the glossy hair now dishevelled in front by the boisterous wind, a...« less