What did Mr. Greystock propose to do now?
Then Lucy broke down, sobbing, crying, triumphing, with mingled love and
happiness. She was to go to the deanery. Frank had brought with him a
little note to her from his mother, in which she was invited to make the
deanery at Bobsborough her home for the present.
"And you are to go away just when you've come?" asked Nina.
"Stay with us a month, my dear," said Lady Fawn, "just to let people know
that we are friends, and after that the deanery will be the best home for
you." And so it was arranged.
* * * * *
It need only be further said, in completing the history of Lucy Morris as
far as it can be completed in these pages, that she did go to the deanery,
and that there she was received with all the affection which Mrs.
Greystock could show to an adopted daughter. Her quarrel had never been
with Lucy personally--but with the untoward fact that her son would not
marry money. At the deanery she remained for fifteen happy months, and
then became Mrs. Greystock, with a bevy of Fawn bridesmaids around her. As
the personages of a chronicle such as this should all be made to operate
backwards and forwards on each other from the beginning to the end, it
would have been desirable that the chronicler should have been able to
report that the ceremony was celebrated by Mr.
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