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Chapter 2. Flo's Red Ball

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sat together, with their work in their hands, on a garden seat under a cedar tree. It was an August evening after dinner, and th

ve him an answer. Wha

e wishes. If any man wa

an for him then in waiting-t

t when a girl bids a man to wait, she will take him after a while. It always comes to that. If you had been at home at Loring, the ti

ll go back

an answer one way or the other. You could not go now and leave him in

while said nothing, but went

nning up, followed by a nursery

our-and-a-half years old, and a boy, a year younger, and a l

water, Flo! Can't

gone,

bushes, and that it was caught there just out of reach of all that she, Jane, could do with a long stick for its recovery.

y for that five minutes of thought by herself which she ne

is so big," said

Jim would go in, perhaps, which I certainly shall not do." Then she took

t projecting stick. Jim could have got it certainly, because he could have suspended himself ove

herself to the bough, as Jim would have done, and became more and more venturous, and at last touched the ball, and then, at last,-fell into the river! Immediately there was a scream and a roar

ou hurt?" sa

o, don't be unhappy. It's such good fun. Only you mustn't fall in yourself, till you're

your head has been und

moment I had a sound of Ophelia in my ears. Then

go to bed, dear; and I'l

ing warm; but I will change my clothes. Wh

r made no answer, but went straight up to the ho

painfully anxious that Harry might succeed. Fenwick had loved the man dearly for many years, and Janet Fenwick had loved him since she had known him as her husband's friend. They both felt that he was showing more of manhood than they had expected from him in the persistency of his love, and that he deserved his reward. And they both believed also tha

ck, coming to the window, which opened down to th

his hands, and seeming to prepare himself to rush

mstances were explained, and the papa declared magisterially that Flo must not play any more with her b

her will have gone t

warm drinks, and cossetting; but she would have none of it. She sc

said the Vicar. "If you start before elev

him than she was a month since. Her friend Janet had complained again and again of the suspense to which she was subjecting the man;-but she knew on the other hand that her friend Janet did this in her intense anxiety to promote the match. Was it wrong to say to the man-"I will wait and try?" Her friend told her that to say that she would wait and try, was in truth to say that she would take him at some future time;-that any girl who said so had almost committed herself to such a decision;-that the very fact that she was waiting and trying to love a man ought to bind her to the man at last. Such certainly had not been her own idea. As far as she could at present look into her own future feelings, she did not think

nt were the most serious thing in the world. Mr. Fenwick was all mirth, as though there had never been a better joke. Mrs. Fenwick, who was perhaps unwise in her impatience, was specially anxious that her two gue

look at the spot,"

alked down together, four abreast, across the lawn, and thence they reached a certain green orchard path that led down to the river. Mrs. Fenwick purposely went on with the lover, leaving Mary with her husban

had scrambled, and the water which had then b

have been in there!" said

uld ever have got out

." And the charming schemer took her husband's arm, and continued the round of the garde

p, and a resolution that she would not be driven from it. But he walked on beside her talking of the water, and of the danger, and of the chance of a cold, and got no nearer to the subject than to bid her think what suffering she would have caused had she failed to extricate herself

age garden through the churchyard to a field path

want to make Fenwick come out again to-night. Y

dear

are of yourself. I hardly think you o

ilmore. You make infin

anything that regards you? Y

I fanc

, and she promised him that she would obey him. He clearly was entitled to her obedience on such a point. Then she sl

he world than this, she did not think that it would ever come in her way. Up to this time of her life she had never felt any such feeling. If not for her own sake, why should she not do it for him? Why should he

Janet, "how

know how it will be," she said, turni

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Contents

Preface Chapter 1. Bullhampton Chapter 2. Flo's Red Ball Chapter 3. Sam Brattle Chapter 4. There is No One Else Chapter 5. The Miller Chapter 6. Brattle's Mill Chapter 7. The Miller's Wife Chapter 8. The Last Day Chapter 9. Miss Marrable Chapter 10. Crunch'em Can't Be had
Chapter 11. Don't you Be Afeard about me
Chapter 12. Bone'm and his Master
Chapter 13. Captain Marrable and his Father
Chapter 14. Cousinhood
Chapter 15. The Police at Fault
Chapter 16. Miss Lowther Asks for Advice
Chapter 17. The Marquis of Trowbridge
Chapter 18. Blank Paper
Chapter 19. Sam Brattle Returns Home
Chapter 20. I Have A Jupiter of My Own Now
Chapter 21. What Parson John Thinks about it
Chapter 22. What the Fenwicks Thought about it
Chapter 23. What Mr. Gilmore Thought about it
Chapter 24. The Rev. Henry Fitzackerley Chamberlaine
Chapter 25. Carry Brattle
Chapter 26. The Turnover Correspondence
Chapter 27. "I Never Shamed None of Them."
Chapter 28. Mrs. Brattle's Journey
Chapter 29. The Bull at Loring
Chapter 30. The Aunt and the Uncle
Chapter 31. Mary Lowther Feels her Way
Chapter 32. Mr. Gilmore's Success
Chapter 33. Farewell
Chapter 34. Bullhampton News
Chapter 35. Mr. Puddleham's New Chapel
Chapter 36. Sam Brattle Goes off Again
Chapter 37. Female Martyrdom
Chapter 38. A Lover's Madness
Chapter 39. The Three Honest Men
Chapter 40. Trotter's Buildings
Chapter 41. Startup Farm
Chapter 42. Mr. Quickenham, Q.C
Chapter 43. Easter at Turnover Castle
Chapter 44. The Marrables of Dunripple
Chapter 45. What Shall I Do with Myself
Chapter 46. Mr. Jay of Warminster
Chapter 47. Sam Brattle is Wanted
Chapter 48. Mary Lowther Returns to Bullhampton
Chapter 49. Mary Lowther's Doom
Chapter 50. Mary Lowther Inspects her Future Home
Chapter 51. The Grinder and his Comrade
Chapter 52. Carry Brattle's Journey
Chapter 53. The Fatted Calf
Chapter 54. Mr. Gilmore's Rubies
Chapter 55. Glebe Land
Chapter 56. The Vicar's Vengeance
Chapter 57. Oil is to Be Thrown upon the Waters
Chapter 58. Edith Brownlow's Dream
Chapter 59. News from Dunripple
Chapter 60. Lord St. George is Very Cunning
Chapter 61. Mary Lowther's Treachery
Chapter 62. Up at the Privets
Chapter 63. The Miller Tells his Troubles
Chapter 64. If I Were your Sister!
Chapter 65. Mary Lowther Leaves Bullhampton
Chapter 66. At the Mill
Chapter 67. Sir Gregory Marrable has A Headache
Chapter 68. The Squire is Very Obstinate
Chapter 69. The Trial
Chapter 70. The Fate of the Puddlehamites
Chapter 71. The End of Mary Lowther's Story
Chapter 72. At Turnover Castle
Chapter 73. Conclusion
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