Page:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (emended first edition), Volume 3.djvu/96

86 CHAPTER V.

1st.—No Mr. Huntingdon yet. Perhaps he will stay among his friends till Christmas; and then, next spring, he will be off again. If he continue this plan, I shall be able to stay at Grass-dale well enough—that is, I shall be able to stay, and that is enough; even an occasional bevy of friends at the shooting season, may be borne if Arthur get so firmly attached to me—so well established in good sense and principles, before they come, that I shall be able, by reason and affection, to keep him pure from their