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Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson
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daren't ask my friends there; my father would talk their hindlegs
off but he isn't a bad old bird."






III

WINDLOW





Mrs. Graves wrote back by return of post that she was delighted to
think that Howard was coming. "I am getting an old woman," she
said, "and fond of memories: and what I hear of you from your
enthusiastic pupil Jack makes me wish to see my nephew, and proud
of him too. This is a quiet house, but I think you would enjoy it;
and it's a real kindness to me to come. I am sure I shall like you,
and I am not without hopes that you may like me. You need not tie
yourself down to any dates; just come when you can, and go when you
must."

Howard liked the simplicity of the letter, and determined to go
down at once. He started two days later. It was a fine spring day,
and it was pleasant to glide through the open country all
quickening into green. He arrived in the afternoon at the little
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