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And then the ladies retired. His aunt, with a good-natured smile on her face, came to him as she was leaving the room, the last of the bevy, and, putting her hand on his arm, led him out into a small, unoccupied chamber that opened from the grand saloon.

The doctor contrived to escape without giving a definite answer to this question; and then, having paid his compliments to Lady Scatcherd, remounted his cob and rode back to Greshamsbury.

The doctor turned his head away; for though the occasion was serious, he could not help smiling at the malicious vengeance with which his friend proposed to gratify himself.

And so the interview had ended. Frank, of course, went upstairs to see if his new pocket-pistols were all ready, properly cleaned, loaded, and capped, should he find, after a few days' experience, that prolonged existence was unendurable.
However, he managed to live through the subsequent period, doubtless with the view of preventing any disappointment to his father's guests.

And so Mary Thorne grew up under the doctor's eye, and at the beginning of our tale, she was one of the guests assembled at Greshamsbury on the coming of age of the heir, she herself having then arrived at the same period of her life.

Loving this book so far! I heard it was good, and I’m so pleased to not be disappointed!

this book makes me so happy

kind of lovely to read a book when you already know every detail of its plot and said plot is lovely.