Edith was placed upon her pony and attended by her old maid Jenny and
her old groom Oliver.
Commodore and Mrs. Waugh entered the family carriage, which they pretty
well filled up. Mrs. Waugh's woman sat upon the box behind and the
Commodore's man drove the coach.
And the whole family party set forward on their journey. They went in
advance of the caravan so as not to be hindered and inconvenienced by
its slow and cumbrous movements. A ride of three miles through the old
forest brought them to the open, hilly country. Here the road forked.
And here the family were to separate.
It had been arranged that as Edith was too delicate to bear the forced
march of days' and nights' continuance before they could reach
Montgomery, she should proceed to Hay Hill, a plantation near the line
of Charles County, owned by Colonel Fairlie, whose young daughter Fanny,
recently made a bride, had been the schoolmate of Edith.
Here, at the fork, the party halted to take leave.
Commodore Waugh called his niece to ride up to the carriage window and
gave her many messages for Colonel Fairlie, for Fanny and for Fanny's
young bridegroom, and many charges to be careful and prudent, and not to
ride out unattended, etc.
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