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All the months of summer went by. Jasper kept his word, and never
visited Mrs Yule's house; but once in July he met that lady at
the Carters', and heard then, what he knew from other sources,
that the position of things was unchanged. In August, Mrs Yule
spent a fortnight at the seaside, and Amy accompanied her.
Milvain and his sisters accepted an invitation to visit friends
at Wattleborough, and were out of town about three weeks, the
last ten days being passed in the Isle of Wight; it was an
extravagant holiday, but Dora had been ailing, and her brother
declared that they would all work better for the change. Alfred
Yule, with his wife and daughter, rusticated somewhere in Kent.
Dora and Marian exchanged letters, and here is a passage from one
written by the former:
'Jasper has shown himself in an unusually amiable light since we
left town. I looked forward to this holiday with some misgivings,
as I know by experience that it doesn't do for him and us to be
too much together; he gets tired of our company, and then his
selfishness--believe me, he has a good deal of it--comes out in a
way we don't appreciate.
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