DANESBURY HOUSE

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by  WOOD, HENRY

Danetty Howe
Danesbury House

BY
Mrs. Henry Woop.

London and felling-on-Cyne

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DANESBURY HOUSE.

CHAPTER I.
THE MISTAKE—THE DINNER-TABLE.

IT was a winter's afternoon, cold and bright, and the
large nursery window of Danesbury House looked out
on an extensive and beautiful prospect. Seated at it,
occupied in repairing some fine lace, was a smart young
woman of twenty, an upper maid, sensible and sharp-
looking, with quick, dark eyes, and a healthy colour.
“There's the baby, Glisson,” she suddenly exclaimed,
as a child's cry was heard from the adjoining room.
Glisson, the person she addressed, was a woman of
middle age, active and slender, the valued nurse in the
Danesbury family. She was sitting in a low rocking-
chair, right in front of the fire, nodding at intervals.
She half opened her eyes, and turned them on Jessy,
with a somewhat dull or stupid expression.
* Did you speak ?” she asked,
‘The baby, Glisson. Don’t you hear him ?”
Glisson rose, and stepping into the night-nursery,
brought forth little William Danesbury, a lovely child
of nige months old. His cheeks were flushed to a
crimson damask, his pretty mouth was like a rosebud,
gad his eyes were large and dark and brilliant. She sat
down with him on the low chair: he seemed somewhat