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DISAPPEARANCE AND DRAMA AT KINGSWOOD

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1861
DISAPPEARANCE AND DRAMA AT KINGSWOOD
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June 15 1861 FRANK LESLIES LLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER To remain an hour longer in Brighton she felt to be im possible to return to the Kingswood mansion in Belgravia she would not and therefore to prevent false surmises and disingenuous reports there was but one alternative open to her and that was Kingswood Hall Cyril had disappeared she did not ask how when or wherefore and Lady Mauds supplications not to return to that dreary pile where Philip Avon could come and go at will where he could persecute her with his hateful and ter rifying wooing were borne down by Lady Kingswcods im petuous desire to place herself. Where the Marquis of Chil lingham would be unlikely to come or her eyes could rest on the face of that youth whose advent at Kingswood Hall had shattered at one blow the whole fabric of her happiness. The solitary monastic character of Kingswood Hall cid not help to tone or to calm down her mind as Brighton had done. There the variable sea the everchanging human tide and the sprightly bustle peculiar to a place at cnce so fashion able and so populous did something to attract her thoughts from dwelling.

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