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The same afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Harper and Miss Valery drove to Kingcombe, to see if in that quaint little town there was a house suitable for the young couple. They had not said a word to either of the Miss Harpers concerning this sudden arrangement, agreeing that the father of the household ought to be shown the respect of receiving the first information.
"And then," said Nathanael, "I trust mainly to Anne Valery to overcome his scruples. Anne can do anything she likes with my father. Don't you remember," he continued, leaning over to the front seat where the two ladies were, and looking quite cheerful, as though a great load had been taken off his mind -- "don't you remember -- I do, though I was such a little boy -- how there was one day a grand family tumult because Frederick wanted his commission, and my father refused it -- how you walked up and down the garden, first with one and then with the other, persuading everybody to be friends, while Uncle Brian and I" --