This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... have strongly recommended, if she can bear the journey, to change the scene as soon as possible. She seems earnestly to desire to see Miss Lovell; but, of course, I dare not second her wishes, knowing, as I do, how indispensable to your comfort and happiness her presence is at the Rectory. "Mrs. Harbottle, immediately on the arrival of the express from her husband, soliciting her to come to him, started to fulfil his desire; but at the end of the first stage it was found wholly impossible for her to continue the journey, and she was compelled to return. "She has expressed her positive resolution never to revisit Binford. She was dreadfully agitated when I read the will to her, and she found herself the possessor of the whole of her late husband's immense fortune. Of course it is not possible for me to attract her attention at this moment to minor details; but it is evident to me that she will sell the Binford property, and the house and furniture as it stands, for she expresses something like horror at the idea of seeing any thing which can be associated in her mind with the events which have recently occurred in that place. I regret the determination to which I clearly see she will come upon this point, because I think the intimacy which would subsist between her and Miss Lovell, if she again took up her residence at the Hall, would be agreeable and even advantageous to both. "I have promised to remain here till to-morrow afternoon, in order to give Mrs. Harbottle time to rally her strength, so as to endure a second conversation upon business. I have already explained to her, as briefly as possible, the arrangements we have made with respect to the funeral, of which she entirely approves. "I do assure you, I never have seen a more interesting or melancho...