Lord Highgate. Ethel, pursuing the plan which she had laid
down for herself from the first, took entire charge of his children and
house: Lady Anne returned to her own family: never indeed having been of
much use in her son's dismal household. My wife talked to me of course
about her pursuits and amusements at Newcome, in the ancestral hall which
we have mentioned. The children played and ate their dinner (mine often
partook of his infantine mutton, in company with little Clara and the
poor young heir of Newcome) in the room which had been called my lady's
own, and in which her husband had locked her, forgetting that the
conservatories were open, through which the hapless woman had fled. Next
to this was the baronial library, a side of which was fitted with the
gloomy books from Clapham, which old Mrs. Newcome had amassed; rows of
tracts, and missionary magazines, and dingy quarto volumes of worldly
travel and history which that lady had admitted into her collection.
Almost on the last day of our stay at Rosebury, the two young ladies
bethought them of paying a visit to the neighbouring town of Newcome, to
that old Mrs.
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