Eva Desmond; Or, Mutation

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. PROHIBITIONS. Dear me, Mrs. Herbert, I am sorry you are going so early; I was in hopes you would have stayed lunch. Miss Boare did not say that until the carriage was ordered and Mrs. Herbert dressed to depart. Thank you, no, Miss Boare, we could not stay. Mr. Herbert is anxious to get back early. I daresay he has business in the parish, and Here Mr. Herbert entered, and his wife stopped short. Miss Boare repeated her hospitable regrets about the lunch. Mr. Herbert, whose recollection of the breakfast made him by no means anxious to partake of another meal at Mowbray, good-humouredly replied? No, thank you, Miss Boare, we cannot stay indeed; we have been most agreeably entertained, and are very much obliged for your hospitality. Vol. n. D I am sure I am very glad you think so, Mr. Herbert . It has been a great pleasure to me to see you. I only wish you and Mrs. Herbert could have stayed lunch. But perhaps you have business ? No, indeed, I 've no business. Wickcliffe of Hood is coming to fish opposite Hislop to-day, and I dare say a gad along the river with him will be the extent of my labours till dinner. Aunt Herbert appears to be under the same delusion as ever regarding my uncle's parochial engagements, said Edward Clifton when they were gone. Whenever I have been stopping at Hislop, if any one asked where he was, she always pursed up her mouth, and said he was visiting some sick or sorry individual; and when he came home, as sure as a gun he said he had been in to town to hear the news, or at a magistrate's meeting, or gadding with some passer-by; then aunt would look daggers. It often puts me in mind of a family I know in Ireland, said Eva. They live in the town near us. The youngest son is a doctor whose ...