[The Mother’s Recompense, Volume II. by Grace Aguilar]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mother’s Recompense, Volume II. CHAPTER V 7/44
He has taken my provoking remarks in good part, and sets off with Caroline and her husband in July.
My sister's health has been so delicate the last three months, that she is advised to go to Geneva.
Her little boy grows such a darling, I shall miss him almost as much as his mother." "Do you stay with them at Castle Terryn before they go ?" "I do not think I shall, for at present I seem to dislike the idea of leaving home.
They come to us, I believe, a few weeks hence, in order that we may be all together, which we could not very well be at St. Eval's." "Has Lord St.Eval quite lost all anxiety on his brother's account? The physicians said they could never have brought him through it, had it not been for Mr.Myrvin's prudent and unceasing care." "Yes; every letter from Castle Malvern confirms the report, all anxiety has been over some weeks now; indeed, before the Marquis reached Hanover, where he received from his son's own lips an affecting and animated account of his own imprudence, and Mr.Myrvin's heroic as well as prudent conduct." "Was there an accident, then? I thought it was from the fever then raging in the town." "Lord Louis had determined, against his tutor's consent, to join a party of very gay young men, who wished to leave Hanover for a time and make an excursion to the sea-shore.
Mr.Myrvin, who did not quite approve of some of the young gentlemen who were to join the party, remonstrated, but in vain.
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