For their honeymoon, they went to the south of India, and seven hours
after they got there they had two twin babies, a boy and a girl which
they called Abraham and Sarah, because they were fond of those holy
saints.
So we will say goodbye to this two chaptered story.
THE TRUE HISTORY OF LESLIE WOODCOCK
To
DEAREST MOTHER
FROM
DAISY ON HER BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCING THE FAMILY
"Sylvia Sylvia" cried a man's voice in the hall. "Where is that child?"
"Coming" answered the child for so she was always called by her Uncle
Richard although in years she was close on 19.
And she turned to obey the summons, a deep flush mounted to her usually
too pale cheeks, and lighted up her whole countenance.
Sylvia Monton was little more than a baby when her parents were both
drowned whilst on their way to India where Captain Monton was to join
his regiment. So little Sylvia was left an orphan and her mothers only
brother Richard Earlsdown came forward to take charge of her being a
bachelor and possessing no children of his own.
At the time our history opens Sylvia was a tall thin girl with a fair
and saddened face, which was only enlivened by the sky blue of her
eyes--she had golden hair which she wore combed back from her white and
noble forehead and arranged in heavy waves round her small and shapely
head--a small rosebud mouth which when wide open displayed 2 rows of
pearly white teeth. Small white hands adorned by 3 golden rings and a
tiny round nose which she daintily touched now and again with a lace
hankerchief.
It was 3 oclock on a dismal afternoon late in February and the place was
on the boarders of the Sussex downs.
"What a rainy day for our walk Uncle" sighed Sylvia as she approached
her uncle who was still waiting in the hall.
"I wish it were finer my dear" said Mr. Earlsdown opening a large
unbrella manfully.
Mr. Earlsdown was an elderly man between 50 and 60, he had iron grey
hair and a long bushy beard to corrospond, sharp grey eyes and a would
be handsome face but for a stern forbidding expression it habitually
wore. He was broad and stout and had a manfull way of carelessly
swinging his arms that gave him many friends. Not only this but he had a
loud hearty voice that he knew how to use with a will.
Here Mr. Earlsdown proceeded to turn up his trouser tips and offering
his large umbrella to his niece cried in his hearty voice "let us brave
the storm."
Just then a gust of wind blew Sylvia's dainty toque down a side street.
"Oh uncle" she gasped dropping the gingham in her dismay "do go and
fetch it," but ere she uttered the words a tall handsome fellow
approached bearing his head and displaying the lost hat in his hand.
"Oh thank you" cried Sylvia a beautiful blush mounting her fair cheeks
"I am so very grateful to you."
"I am afraid it is rather dusty" said the newcomer taking out a lovely
silk hankerchief and preparing to wipe the charming object
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