Fairclose

Fairclose, while I intend to seek an entirely new scene and to retire altogether from business, there will be very little more needful.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

In the first place it has been discovered that there was a very serious flaw in the title to Fairclose, and that the sale to me was altogether illegal.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

My present idea is, that I shall let the house at Fairclose, or shut it up if I cannot let it, and let the rents of the property go to paying off this mortgage, and I intend to take a modest little place near

A Girl of the Commune 1867

Fairclose and its estates, subject to the mortgage of £20,000.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

Directly I see that he is out of immediate danger, I will send over to Fairclose to break the news to his wife.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

Not only might the connection be useful to the girls, but it might be invaluable in covering their retirement from Fairclose.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

Fairclose, handed back that estate, together with the house and all appurtenances appertaining thereto, to Cuthbert Hartington as a dowry with his daughter Mary upon her marriage with the said Cuthbert

A Girl of the Commune 1867

If you will tell him what I told them in the next room, that it has been discovered that there is a flaw in the sale of Fairclose, and that as you are engaged to marry Mary, we have arrived at an amicable agreement under which you will return at once to

A Girl of the Commune 1867

I have been wondering ever since you told me you were to have Fairclose again, if you would give up painting, and hoping that you would still go on with it.

A Girl of the Commune 1867

Fairclose had become hateful to them all, and at this moment it mattered little to them how it had come about that they were going to leave it.

A Girl of the Commune 1867