High Places (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...there is something about those Holt woods which always was a peculiar charm to me. I used to think as a boy, and so I do now, if I did not live at Marwell I should like to live at the Holt." ' If you were not Alexander at large on the edge of the Down ground," said Charles, "you would be Diogenes in the seclusion of the woods of the Holt," "But about Hinton?" said Mrs. Vere, interrogatively, recalling the attention of the young men to what more immediately concerned her than the Holt woods and cross-country riding. "Elka Brande is what she always promised to be," said Adolphus. "I believe her to be a thoroughly honest and high-minded girl, and amiable too--there's no nonsense about her. I extracted from the Domitor a few of her doings about the parish, and I have promised to go and see the Hinton School, though that is not very much in my way, --her school one may call it, for she is the life and soul of it, so old Jane told me in a few words, in the village, as we were coming away." "Ah I always told you," said Charles, in a mournful tone of voice, "that there was trouble ahead for me about that girl. My uncle tells me that Harbury--you remember Harbury, Dolphy, Lord Dorsetshire's eldest son--has been staying with the Duncans, at Alresford, and is very much at Hinton latterly, and is supposed, from various things, to have an eye to Miss Elka." "That is the report," observed the Seigneur. "If there is anything in it," said Charles, "and it goes on, I foresee trouble. Harbury will never marry her. I know his way, and I shall be, with my old regard for her--ahem --very uncomfortably situated." "My dear Carlo," said the Seigneur rather pompously, "Miss Brande may be a very excellent young person, and I have no doubt she is so from what I...