Mrs. Carmichael accompanied Mr. Errol on
a visit to Matilda Nagle at the post office. The absence of the minister
made the morning game of golf impossible, so that Mr. Perrowne had to
surrender himself to the care of Miss Halbert, which he did with a fine
grace of cheerful resignation. Mr. Douglas expressed a desire to take a
walk in the surrounding country, and the dominie echoed it, with the
condition that the ladies should share in the excursion. The Squire and
Mrs. Carruthers were busy; the doctor had his patient to look after, and
expected to be summoned to the other at the post office; and Mr. Terry
occupied himself with the children. But Mrs. Du Plessis and her
daughter, Miss Graves, Miss Halbert, and, of course the colonel and Mr.
Perrowne, were willing to be pedestrians, if the proposers of the tramp
promised not to walk too fast. There was a pretty hillside, beyond
Talfourds on the road towards the Beaver River, from which the timber
had once been removed, and which was now covered, but not too thickly,
with young second growth; and thither the party determined to wend their
way.
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