A London Season
“last visit, driving himself in his own phaeton, and accompanied only by John Digby. “A tamer landscape than some we’ve seen, John,” he observed, as they emerged from the environs of London and took the road westward. “D’you regret the Alps and Pyrenees and the Rhine? Or come to that, the girls of Paris and the gaieties of Berlin?”“Not I, sir!” replied John Digby, with a broad grin. “Time I settled down, I reckon, and yesterday—why, sir, I got Peg to name the day at last!”“You did? Excellent! I ...wish you both very happy, and I’m sure you will be.” For Sir Edmund had, over quite a long period, been the recipient of John’s confidences concerning his courtship of Peggy, the under-nursemaid at Yoxford House. Peggy was ready enough to marry him but not, as she stoutly averred, to go jauntering off to them nasty foreign parts. From the start, Sir Edmund had assured John Digby that he would not stand in the couple’s way, and if John left his own service, there would certainly be a good position waiting for him at Yoxford House, but since his man would not hear of that, the courtship had been a protracted one.MoreLess
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