It was over at length, and
the lawyer gone. Matters were adjusted as well they could be at
present. The negroes were to remain at Sunnybank under charge of
an overseer as usual, while Arthur was to stay there, too, until
he decided upon his future course. This was his own proposition,
and Edith acceded to it joyfully. There were no sweet home
associations, connected in her mind with Sunnybank, it is true,
for she was too young when she left it to retain more than a dim,
shadowy remembrance of a few scenes and places; but it had been
Nina's home; there she was born, there she had lived, there she
had died, and Edith felt that it would not be one half so dreary
looked back upon, if Arthur would stay there always.
"Why can't you?" she asked of him when in the evening she sat with
him in the rather gloomy parlor. "I'll make you my agent in
general, giving you permission to do whatever you please, or would
you rather live at Grassy Spring?"
"Anywhere but there," was Arthur's quick response, "I shall sell
Grassy Spring and go abroad.
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