[Westways by S. Weir Mitchell]@TWC D-Link bookWestways CHAPTER VII 20/26
I may find them in Philadelphia." "Thank you." "Oh," she said, turning back, "I forgot.
My cousin, George Grey, is coming, but he is so uncertain that he may come as he advises me in ten days, or as is quite possible to-morrow, or not at all." "Very good.
If he comes, we will try to make Grey Pine agreeable." "That is really all, Mark, I think," and the little lady went away, with a pleasant word for the long familiar people as she went by. In the afternoon Leila saw the Squire ride to the mills with John, and went herself to the stable for a last mournful interview with Lucy.
It was as well that her aunt with unconscious good sense kept her busy until dinner-time.
The girl was near to accepting the relieving bribe of unrestrained tears, being sad and at the age of those internal conflicts which at the time of incomplete formation of character are apt to trouble the more sensitive sex.
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