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.Come, why don t you congratulateContents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD atAnne Bronte.Agnes Grey.http://collegebookshelf.net210 211me? she did, that it was all a false report.She was very glad to see I cannot congratulate you, I replied, till I know whether me; but, happily, her eyes were now so nearly well that shethis change is really for the better: but I sincerely hope it is; was almost independent of my services.She was deeply inter-and I wish you true happiness and the best of blessings. ested in the wedding; but while I amused her with the details Well, good-by, the carriage is waiting, and they re calling of the festive day, the splendours of the bridal party and ofme. the bride herself, she often sighed and shook her head, andShe gave me a hasty kiss, and was hurrying away; but, wished good might come of it; she seemed, like me, to regardsuddenly returning, embraced me with more affection than I it rather as a theme for sorrow than rejoicing.I sat a long timethought her capable of evincing, and departed with tears in talking to her about that and other things but no one came.her eyes.Poor girl! I really loved her then; and forgave her Shall I confess that I sometimes looked towards the doorfrom my heart all the injury she had done me and others with a half-expectant wish to see it open and give entrance toalso: she had not half known it, I was sure; and I prayed God Mr.Weston, as had happened once before? and that, return-to pardon her too.ing through the lanes and fields, I often paused to look roundDuring the remainder of that day of festal sadness, I was me, and walked more slowly than was at all necessary for,left to my own devices.Being too much unhinged for any though a fine evening, it was not a hot one and, finally, feltsteady occupation, I wandered about with a book in my hand a sense of emptiness and disappointment at having reachedfor several hours, more thinking than reading, for I had many the house without meeting or even catching a distant glimpsethings to think about.In the evening, I made use of my lib- of any one, except a few labourers returning from their work?erty to go and see my old friend Nancy once again; to apolo- Sunday, however, was approaching: I should see him then:gize for my long absence (which must have seemed so ne- for now that Miss Murray was gone, I could have my oldglectful and unkind) by telling her how busy I had been; and corner again.I should see him, and by look, speech, and man-to talk, or read, or work for her, whichever might be most ner, I might judge whether the circumstance of her marriageacceptable, and also, of course, to tell her the news of this had very much afflicted him.Happily I could perceive noimportant day: and perhaps to obtain a little information shadow of a difference: he wore the same aspect as he hadfrom her in return, respecting Mr.Weston s expected depar- worn two months ago voice, look, manner, all alike un-ture.But of this she seemed to know nothing, and I hoped, as changed: there was the same keen-sighted, unclouded truth-Contents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD atAnne Bronte.Agnes Grey.http://collegebookshelf.net212 213fulness in his discourse, the same forcible clearness in his style, when once her spirit was roused, her temper was not so gentlethe same earnest simplicity in all he said and did, that made as she required that of her governesses to be, and her will wasitself, not marked by the eye and ear, but felt upon the hearts not to be thwarted with impunity.After many a scene ofof his audience.contention between mother and daughter, many a violentI walked home with Miss Matilda; but HE DID NOT outbreak which I was ashamed to witness, in which the father sJOIN US.Matilda was now sadly at a loss for amusement, authority was often called in to confirm with oaths and threatsand wofully in want of a companion: her brothers at school, the mother s slighted prohibitions for even HE could seeher sister married and gone, she too young to be admitted that Tilly, though she would have made a fine lad, was notinto society; for which, from Rosalie s example, she was in quite what a young lady ought to be Matilda at lengthsome degree beginning to acquire a taste a taste at least for found that her easiest plan was to keep clear of the forbiddenthe company of certain classes of gentlemen; at this dull time regions; unless she could now and then steal a visit withoutof year no hunting going on, no shooting even for, though her watchful mother s knowledge.she might not join in that, it was SOMETHING to see her Amid all this, let it not be imagined that I escaped with-father or the gamekeeper go out with the dogs, and to talk out many a reprimand, and many an implied reproach, thatwith them on their return, about the different birds they had lost none of its sting from not being openly worded; but ratherbagged.Now, also, she was denied the solace which the com- wounded the more deeply, because, from that very reason, itpanionship of the coachman, grooms, horses, greyhounds, and seemed to preclude self- defence.Frequently, I was told topointers might have afforded; for her mother having, not- amuse Miss Matilda with other things, and to remind her ofwithstanding the disadvantages of a country life, so satisfac- her mother s precepts and prohibitions.I did so to the best oftorily disposed of her elder daughter, the pride of her heart my power: but she would not be amused against her will,had begun seriously to turn her attention to the younger; and could not against her taste; and though I went beyondand, being truly alarmed at the roughness of her manners, mere reminding, such gentle remonstrances as I could useand thinking it high time to work a reform, had been roused were utterly ineffectual.at length to exert her authority, and prohibited entirely the DEAR Miss Grey! it is the STRANGEST thing.I sup-yards, stables, kennels, and coach-house.Of course, she was pose you can t help it, if it s not in your nature but I WON-not implicitly obeyed; but, indulgent as she had hitherto been, DER you can t win the confidence of that girl, and make yourContents Purchase the entire Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf on CD atAnne Bronte.Agnes Grey.http://collegebookshelf
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