Son, Whitby._
_21 August._
Dear Sirs,--
We beg to acknowledge 10 received and to return cheque 1 17s. 9d,
amount of overplus, as shown in receipted account herewith. Goods are
delivered in exact accordance with instructions, and keys left in parcel
in main hall, as directed.
We are, dear Sirs,
Yours respectfully.
_Pro_ CARTER, PATERSON & CO.
_Mina Murray s Journal._
_18 August._--I am happy to-day, and write sitting on the seat in the
churchyard. Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well all
night, and did not disturb me once. The roses seem coming back already
to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and wan-looking. If she
were in any way an mic I could understand it, but she is not. She is in
gay spirits and full of life and cheerfulness. All the morbid reticence
seems to have passed from her, and she has just reminded me, as if I
needed any reminding, of _that_ night, and that it was here, on this
very seat, I found her asleep. As she told me she tapped playfully with
the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:--
My poor little feet didn t make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr.
Swales would have told me that it was because I didn t want to wake up
Geordie. As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she
had dreamed at all that night. Before she answered, that sweet, puckered
look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her
habit--says he loves; and, indeed, I don t wonder that he does. Then she
went on in a half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to
herself:--
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