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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 48 CHAPTER III. Chauncey had meantime brought Constance back to Chestnut Brook, where she was received with tears and the warmest affection. Even the Colonel said as he kissed her, By Jove we have missed you, my dear child, and Mrs. Burgoyne's emotion was too great for words. I shall never forgive myself...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 48 CHAPTER III. Chauncey had meantime brought Constance back to Chestnut Brook, where she was received with tears and the warmest affection. Even the Colonel said as he kissed her, By Jove we have missed you, my dear child, and Mrs. Burgoyne's emotion was too great for words. I shall never forgive myself for it, Constance, said Mavor, but I did not know what I was saying. You know our Southern tempers are so fiery, and Harwich had driven me nearly mad. And I ought not to have spoken whilst I was so angry, said Constance, as she offered her cheek to his kiss of peace, I ought to have remembered that she was your aunt. Mavor made no answer to this; perhaps, because he knew he had not entered into the combat for Aunt Mary's sake. It was not for her I was angry with Constance, he said to Eleanor afterwards; but it's no use telling her what is the truth? that this Northern nonsense of hers will ruin her happiness and Chauncey's too if he can't put a stop to it. Oh, he will be able, depend upon it, Mavor; she will do nothing to vex him. It never would have happened if he had been at home. Oh, I'm so glad that Constance has come back, I have been thinking all the time I've been ill that I never should see her again. Ah, you are full of fancies, Leonore, said her husband, fondly. I have heard today that you are always miserable lest some mischief should happen to baby. Eleanor tried to laugh, she could not tell him what she feared; but Mrs. Burgoyne had seen that she could not bear to have the infant out of her sight unless one of the family was watching it. It was no use reasoning with Eleanor, she was in evident terror lest some wilful mischief should happen to the child, and Mrs. Burgoyne was obliged to keep it under her own eye when...