Ellen had pleaded urgently that things might be arranged as quietly as possible; and the master of Wyncomb, who hated spending money, and who apprehended that the expenses of any festivity would in all probability fall upon his own shoulders, was very well pleased to assent to this request of his betrothed.
"Quite right, Nell," he said; "we don't want any foolish fuss, or a pack of people making themselves drunk at our expense.

You and your father can come quietly to Crosber church, and Mrs.Tadman and me will meet you there, and the thing's done.

The marriage wouldn't be any the tighter if we had a hundred people looking on, and the Bishop of Winchester to read the service." It was arranged in this manner, therefore; and on that pleasant spring morning William Carley and his daughter walked to the quiet village where Gilbert Fenton had discovered the secret of Marian's retreat.

The face under the bride's little straw bonnet was deadly pale, and the features had a rigid look that was new to them.

The bailiff glanced at his daughter in a furtive way every now and then, with an uneasy sense of this strange look in her face.