Chapter 33
"The Time Will Come" "Did you hear that young Eames is staying at Guestwick Manor?" As these were the first words which the squire spoke to Mrs Dale as they walked together up to the Great House, after church, on Christmas Day, it was clear enough that the tidings of Johnny's visit, when told to him, had made some impression. "At Guestwick Manor!" said Mrs Dale. "Dear me! Do you hear that, Bell? There's promotion for Master Johnny!" "Don't you remember, mamma," said Bell, "that he helped his lordship in his trouble with the bull?" Lily, who remembered accurately all the passages of her last interview with John Eames, said nothing, but felt, in some sort, sore at the idea that he should be so near her at such a time. In some unconscious way she had liked him for coming to her a
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