The Parson's Daughter Volume 3

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. 1833 Excerpt: ... painters and paviours, amounting, as has already been anticipated, to the gross produce of her ladyship's income for the next three years. The delay in her ladyship's return to Binford, after her departurefromGrimsbury, caused some little alarm to the expectant handicraftsmen, but they waited patiently until they had received authentic accounts of her ladyship's having disposed of her lease of the cottage, with all the furniture as it stood, and of her having commenced a series of soirees, (as the ilite of the city call evening parties, and fancy it fine, ) at the pleasant and salubrious town of Boulogne Sur-Mer, to which fashionable watering-place her ladyship had removed for the benefit of her health. The young Lord Weybridge, who, on his arrival in England, had placed himself entirely in the hands of Mr. Crabshaw, took no kind of notice of his right honourable aunt; indeed, the character which her ladyship received at the hands of the tutor, followed up by the general on dit of her conduct, with regard to the transactions at Binford, was not of a nature to induce him to seek out a branch of his family, against which, it was most likely he should be compelled to enter into legal hostilities. As the Spring opened, Mrs. Harbottle, instead of rallying appeared to grow weaker and weaker--her mind was constantly worried and agitated, and it was impossible to keep her from a constant recurrence to all that had passed of wretchedness during the last year. Lovell, without whose society, and that of his daughter, she could not have existed, had been peculiarly fortunate in making an arrangement with the incumbent of a parish near Sidmouth, who gladly exchanged duties with him for six months, after his own full period of absence from Binford had expired. And alth...