Beatrice or the Wycherly Family Author:Mary White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 158 "'WotJ; so come along. I shall hear she is gone time enough." A few paees further brought them full upon Mr. Faulkner, on a very fine horse ; and lord Thomas stopped to observe him. Mr. Faulkner stopped also, and in a lone of inquiry, very different from the idle bettor and the mere man of curiosity, he asked, how Miss Aroherste was, and mentioned his hopes . tliat she was better. " My wife sent this morning; you must ask her" said lord Thomas. " Faulkner, where did you get that fine horse ? -Never saw a creature better put together in my Mr. Faulkner gave tiae history, and rode immediately to lady Anne's house. Her ladyship was predetermined not fc be " at home," but hearing it was Mr. Faulkner, she changed her mind, and admitted Mm. He found her in her lou doir, making antique jars, apparently with the utmost unconcern ; and her first question was." Are you for the Crawleya to-night ? All the world is to be there ;" and on his replying in the negative, she begged to know what unfortunate circumstance prevented him ? " Nothing but my own will," he said. " Your own will!" and she was proceeding to laugh at him, for refusing an invitation to the Grawleys, of all people in the world, when he touched upon the illness of Miss Amherste. " Ah, she's very ill: all has been done that could be done; and if she would keep her spirits up -- but that she won't do -- she might be better. I suppose it is now a confirmed decline; for the physicians shake their heads ; and my sister says, / dragged Juliet to my masquerade ball, and killed her. I went, it is true, and insisted on her coming, but it was All...« less