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The time went peacefully with Nelly and the mother in the little house among the Sussex woods. And presently, since Nelly showed no indication of wishing to join them, and could not be spared indeed, and since Robin was plainly ill at ease yachting up and down the coast, the General declared his intention of going off to a grouse-moor in Scotland, rented by an old friend, over which he had shot year after year for many years back.
On hearing of this sudden change of plans Robin expressed a polite regretfulness, but the General looked at him with twinkling eyes -- he and Robin had come to be on the best of terms of late -- and bade him be off to Dublin without any confounded hypocrisy about it.