"And do you not blush to own it?" said Miss Vernon.
"So much the better," Major Vernon answered, coolly.
Major Vernon had returned to the Rose and Crown at Lisford.
Major Vernon was not going to church on this bright winter's morning.
Henry Dunbar arrived in London a couple of hours after Mr. Vernon left the Abbey.
But there is not one of them to mend another.--Have you read Markham?" said Miss Vernon.
"And what," continued Miss Vernon, "becomes of those victims who are condemned to a convent by the will of others?
There was a mixture of boldness, satire, and simplicity in the manner in which Miss Vernon pronounced these words.
From his new abode Mr. Vernon was able to keep a tolerably sharp look-out upon the two great houses in his neighbourhood--Maudesley Abbey and Jocelyn's Rock.