Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative

CHAPTER I. SAULT ST. PIERRE

CHAPTER II. TREVORSHAM

CHAPTER III. THE PEERAGE CASE

CHAPTER IV. SKIMPING'S FARM

CHAPTER V. SPINNEY LAWN

CHAPTER VI. THE WHITE DOE'S WARNING

CHAPTER VII. HUNTING

CHAPTER VIII. DUCK SHOOTING

CHAPTER IX. TREVOR'S LEGACY

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I suppose I had better tell what we had been doing all this time. Adela and I had come out, and had a season or two in London, and my father had enjoyed our pleasure in it, and paid a good deal of court to our pretty Adela, because there was no driving Torwood into anything warmer than easy brotherly companionship.

In fact, Torwood had never cared for anyone but little Emily Deerhurst. Once he had come to her rescue, when she was only nine or ten years old, and her schoolboy cousins were teasing her, and at every Twelfth-day party since she and he had come together as by right. There was something irresistible in her great soft plaintive brown eyes, though she was scarcely pretty otherwise, and we used to call her the White Doe of Rylstone. Torwood was six or seven years older, and no one supposed that he seriously cared for her, till she was sixteen. Then, when my father spoke point blank to him about Adela, he was driven into owning what he wished.

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"Your father!" she said, with a bitter tone of scorn; but he took it firmly, though the blood seemed to come boiling to his temples.

"Yes," he said, "my father! and if you are indeed his daughter, you should show some pity and filial duty, by not forcing the discussion on him while he can so little bear it."

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