Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ WOODBURN GRANGE. WOODBURN GRANGE. A Story of English Country Life. BY WILLIAM HOWITT. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: CHARLES W. WOOD, 13, TAVISTOCK ST., STRAND. 1867. [_Right of Translation reserved._] LONDON: BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I.—THE CLAVERINGS AND HERITAGES 1 II.—A WILD GALLOP 21 III.—AN ADVENT AND AN EXIT 50 IV.—LETTY’S WEDDING 77 V.—MILLICENT HERITAGE AT THE YEARLY MEETING 106 VI.—WHAT CAME OF MILLICENT’S VISIT 144 VII.—THORSBY’S FALL AND CONVERSION 182 VIII.—WORSE AND WORSE WITH HARRY THORSBY 219 IX.—ALL WRONG AT WOODBURN 255 X.—WOODBURN AND ROCKVILLE AT WAR 291 WOODBURN GRANGE. CHAPTER I. THE CLAVERINGS AND HERITAGES. On the morning after the frolic on the island, as the young friends called it, when the breakfast was over, where the merriment of the affair, and the return of Henry Clavering had been discussed, and the ladies were left to themselves, topics were introduced which belonged only to the initiated, that is, to the womenkind. “How well Mr. Clavering looks,” said Mrs. Woodburn, “and how kind and amiable he is. What a joy it is to George to have him back again, and you, Ann?” “Oh! I am very glad indeed that he is come back; poor Sir Emanuel must have been so lonely by himself up in that great house.” “True,” said Mrs. Woodburn. “But you, Ann? Has he altered his opinions at all?” Ann shook her head, the tears started to her eyes, and she said, “No, dear mother, he is just the same; it is very sad.” “It is sad,” said Mrs. Woodburn; “but let us wait God’s time, my dear child; I will still hope that so excellent a young man, with such sense and such a heart, must come right at last.” Ann again shook her head, and said, sorrowfully, “I don’t know; pray God it may be so,” and went on with her sewing.