But Monckton was none the less resolved
she should come if necessary. Leaving him _varius distractum vitiis_, and
weighing every scheme, with its pros and cons, and, like a panther
crouching and watching before he would make his first spring, we will now
bring our other characters up to the same point, and that will not take
us long, for during the months we have skipped there were not many
events, and Mrs. Dawson has told the readers some of them, and the rest
were only detached incidents.
The most important in our opinion were:
1. That Colonel Clifford resumed his determination to marry Julia
Clifford to Walter, and pooh-poohed Fitzroy entirely, declaring him to be
five feet nothing, and therefore far below the military standard.
2. That Hope rented a cottage of Walter about three hundred yards
from the mine, and not upon the land that was leased to Bartley; that
there was a long detached building hard by, which Walter divided for
him, and turned into an office with a large window close to the
ground, and a workshop with a doorway and an aperture for a window,
but no window nor door.
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