[The Castle Inn by Stanley John Weyman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Castle Inn CHAPTER VI 5/25
'He was buried this morning.
Oh, that is all right.' 'This morning? And the girl went from that--to Dunborough's bedside ?' Sir George exclaimed in indignation. 'It was a piece of the oddest luck,' Mr.Thomasson answered, smirking, and not in the least comprehending the other's feeling.
'He was lodged in Magdalen yesterday; this morning a messenger was despatched to Pembroke for clothes and such-like for him.
The girl's mother has always nursed in Pembroke, and they sent for her to help.
But she was that minute home from the burial, and would not go.
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