Notice to Quit

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1861 Excerpt: ... and I shall leave school this time next year. And I suppose you will be very glad when the time comes? rejoined her mother. No, I don't much care; I am looking to my holidays, because you and Arthur are coming to Burwood for the Christmas week; and aunt wrote and told me Uncle William has bought me such a beautiful hunter to hunt with, and there are to be lots of people staying in the house. I only hope those horrid Phillips's won't be there! Why, dear, Mrs. Phillips always seems very kind to you, and Captain Phillips is so little seen at all, that it can scarcely matter whether he is there or not. But it does matter, because I hate him, and I know he hates me, and she is so very disagreeable; and I know my aunt does not like her, at least she likes her of course, because she is her own daughter; but she always seems afraid of speaking when she is there, and I know Uncle William can't bear her, because he says it always makes him ill to look at an ugly face, and so I am sure he must be ill the whole time she is in the house. Did your aunt tell you who was to be there? She told me Lady Willesden and her daughter, and her nephew, Mr. Bingham, dear Frank's godfather; but I don't know anyone else; oh yes, 1 think she told me that a relation of dear old Mr. Western's was coming on purpose to meet you, but I don't know his name. I am so glad you and Arthur are coming; how I wish Frank could have been with us too, then we should not have a thing to wish for. Her mother looked at her, she could not help enjoying her young fresh feelings, a horse, her mother, and brothers, that seemed the extent of her desires; oh how long would that suffice! how long would she be able to say the same? Mrs. Chichester remembered, too, that when she had her brother at ho...