Hester. Volume 2 of 3
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Oliphant Margaret. Hester. Volume 2 of 3
CHAPTER I. THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
CHAPTER II. A FAMILY PARTY
CHAPTER III. CONFIDENCES
CHAPTER IV. ROLAND
CHAPTER V. WARNING
CHAPTER VI. DANCING TEAS
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST OF THEM
CHAPTER VIII. A NEW COMPETITOR
CHAPTER IX. A DOUBLE MIND
CHAPTER X. STRAIGHTFORWARD
CHAPTER XI. A CENTRE OF LIFE
CHAPTER XII. WAS IT LOVE?
CHAPTER XIII. CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER XIV. THE PARTY AT THE GRANGE
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"I like your Roland," said Miss Vernon. She had come to pay one of her usual visits to her old relations. The grandson whom Hester had made acquaintance with without seeing his face, had now been nearly a week at the Vernonry and was known to everybody about. The captain's precautions had, of course, come to nothing. He had gone, as in duty bound, to pay his respects to the great lady who was his relation too, though in a far-off degree, and he had pleased her. Catherine thought of nothing less than of giving a great pleasure to her old friends by her praise. "He is full of news and information, which is a godsend to us country folks, and he is very good-looking, qui ne gâte rien."
Mrs. Morgan looked up from her place by the fireside with a smile of pleasure. She sat folding her peaceful old hands with an air of beatitude, which, notwithstanding her content, had not been upon her countenance before the young man's arrival.
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"Never is a long day," said the old lady, tranquilly. She was well used to waiting. In her experience, so many things had come to pass which no one expected. Even now, she said to herself, if any one had told her that Roland Ashton would one day be under her roof – She added quietly, "You are too much alike to do each other justice."
At this Catherine grew red. It had been intimated to her before, and she had scarcely been able to support the imputation. But she mastered herself with an effort. Nowhere perhaps but in this house would she have done so; but these old people had an ascendency over her which she could not explain.
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