There was no question as to the validity of the will; but Messrs. Grandly deemed it their duty to inform Mr. Hubert Price of the circumstances under which it had been made, and also of the fact that a few weeks before his death Mr. Burnett had told Mr. John Grandly, who was then staying with Mr. Burnett at Ashwood, that he intended adding a codicil, leaving some two or three hundred a year to Miss Watson.

Miss Watson was now residing at Ashwood.

She was now mistress of Ashwood, she was a great heiress; and she and Julia would live always together, they would always love one another, they would always live here in this beautiful place which they loved so well.

There were at the funeral a few personal friends who lived in the neighbourhood, the farmers on the estate, and the labourers; and when the little crowd separated outside the church, Emily and Julia walked back to Ashwood with Mr. Grandly, Mr. Burnett's intimate friend and solicitor.

In that will he left his entire fortune to her, Ashwood Park and all his invested money.

'And he has left Ashwood to Mr. Price, is not that his name?'

'Yes; he has left Ashwood to Mr. Price.' '

'Then,' said Julia, 'Mr. Burnett has divided his fortune, leaving Ashwood to Mr. Price, and all his invested money to Emily?' A look of pain passed over Mr. Grandly's benevolent face, and he answered: 'Unfortunately he has left everything to Mr. Price.'

I'm glad we are leaving Ashwood; I cannot abide the place when I think of him....

If this man were to cast them penniless out of Ashwood!

Even if he does give me three hundred a year, I shall have to leave Ashwood.'

She was a little girl when she came to live at Ashwood, and the room at the top of the stairs had been her nursery.

'And why not, Emily?' 'To meet the man who is coming to turn me out of Ashwood!' 'How do you know that he is coming to turn you out of Ashwood?

'And why not, Emily?' 'To meet the man who is coming to turn me out of Ashwood!' 'How do you know that he is coming to turn you out of Ashwood?

I want to tell her I hope she will never leave Ashwood. ...

He had tried to talk to her about Hamilton Brown's new drama, which they had just heard would follow Divorce; but he was unable to detach his thoughts from Ashwood and the ladies he was going to visit to-morrow evening.

I was about thirteen when I came to Ashwood.

'I must have some of these things: I want to make the house we are going to live in, in London, look as much like Ashwood as possible.

I was always fond of playing in these old lumber-rooms, and these dim old pictures, which I don't think any one knows anything of except myself, will remind me of Ashwood.

But, Emily, if you love Ashwood so well, why do you go away?' 'Why do I go away?

'I shouldn't like Ashwood to go to rack and ruinand my poor flowers!

Should I fail to satisfy myself, or should any further faults appear when we begin to rehearse the piece, I shall dismiss my people, pack up my traps, and return to Ashwood.

After one terrible night, in which he feared his brain was really giving way, he went down to the theatre and dismissed the company, for he had resolved to return to Ashwood and spend another autumn and another winter re-writing The Gipsy.

The Harriers met for the first time that season at not five miles from Ashwood.

Among the favourite places of resort are Ashwood Dale, with its famous Lover's Leap rock; Shirbrook Dale, with its fissure and cascade; Diamond Hill, so called from the quartz crystals or "Buxton diamonds" found there; Chee Tor, a huge limestone rock 350 feet high, which rises sheer from the bed of the Wye, washing its base; and Axe Edge, 2-1/2 miles from Buxton, rising to a height of 1800 feet above the level of the sea.