soon as she was well enough to bemoved, and only returned in the early spring, in time for my darling'swedding.
She has now been married nearly seven years, during which time her lifehas been very bright and happy--a life of almost uncheckered sunshine.She has carried out her idea of our friendship to the very letter; andwe have never been separated, except during her honeymoon and my ownvisits home. Happily for my sense of independence, there are now plentyof duties for me to perform at Cumber Priory, where I am governess to abrood of pretty children, who call me auntie, and hold me scarcelysecond to their mother in their warm young hearts. Angus Egerton is amodel country squire and master of the hounds; and he and his wifeenjoy an unbroken popularity among rich and poor. Peter isunder-gardener at the Priory, and no longer lives with his grandmother,who left her cottage soon after Mrs. Darrell's suicide, and is supposedto have gone to London.
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