William Mohun might be installed as mistress of
the New Court before Eleanor's departure, which took place early in
October; and shortly after Mrs. Ridley, who had come on a visit to
Beechcroft, to take leave of her brother, returned to the north,
taking with her the little Harry. He was nearly a year old, and it
gave great pain to his young aunts to part with him, now that he had
endeared himself to them by many engaging ways, but Lily felt herself
too unequal to the task of training him up to make any objection, and
there were many promises that he should not be a stranger to his
grandfather's home.
Mrs. and Miss Aylmer had been about a month settled at a superior
sort of cottage, near the New Court, with Mrs. Eden for their
servant. Lord Rotherwood had fitted out the second son, who sailed
for India with Mr. and Mrs. Hawkesworth, had sent Devereux to school,
and was lying in wait to see what could be done for the two others,
and Jane was congratulated far more than she wished, on having been
the means of discovering such an excellent governess. Jane was now a
regular inhabitant of the schoolroom, as much tied down to lessons
and schoolroom hours as her two little sisters, with the prospect of
so continuing for two years, if not for three.
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