[The Westcotes by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link bookThe Westcotes CHAPTER XII 16/33
Early next morning the rest--owners of furniture, granted a few hours to arrange for its storage or sale--followed their comrades.
There was no cloud of dust upon the road for Dorothea to watch.
They departed in sheets of rain and under the dusk of dawn.
She never again saw General Rochambeau. It is recorded that in his fifty-seventh year Endymion Westcote married (but the bride was not Lady Bateson), and that children were born to him.
Narcissus lived on at Bayfield and compiled at his leisure a _History of Axcester_, which mentions the decoration of the Orange Room by "a young Frenchman of talent, who has been good enough to assist the author in a most important work." But Dorothea preferred her independence and a cottage not far from the bridge, where Endymion's children might romp as they listed, but never seemed to disturb its exquisite order. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WESTCOTES*** ******* This file should be named 10548.txt or 10548.zip ******* This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/0/5/4/10548 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
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