`` So you are all home safe , '' she said gaily . `` I hope you feasted your eyes on your beloved Governor , boys . I can tell that Cecilia forgathered with Nan by the beatific look on her face . '' `` Oh , Fran , it was lovely ! '' cried Cecilia . `` But I felt so sorry -- why did n't you let me go to Ashland ? It was too bad you missed it -- and Sara Beaumont . '' `` Sara Beaumont was at the Bay Shore Farm , '' said Frances . `` I 'll tell you all about it when I get my breath -- I 've been breathless ever since Grandmother Newbury told me of it . There 's only one drawback to my supreme bliss -- the remembrance of how complacently self-sacrificing I felt this morning . It humiliates me wholesomely to remember it ! '' Elizabeth 's Child The Ingelows , of Ingelow Grange , were not a marrying family . Only one of them , Elizabeth , had married , and perhaps it was her `` poor match '' that discouraged the others . At any rate , Ellen and Charlotte and George Ingelow at the Grange were single , and so was Paul down at Greenwood Farm . It was seventeen years since Elizabeth had married James Sheldon in the face of the most decided opposition on the part of her family . Sheldon was a handsome , shiftless ne'er - do-well , without any violent bad habits , but also `` without any backbone , '' as the Ingelows declared . `` There is sometimes hope of a man who is actively bad , '' Charlotte Ingelow had said sententiously , `` but who ever heard of reforming a jellyfish ? '' Elizabeth and her husband had gone west and settled on a prairie farm in Manitoba . She had never been home since . Perhaps her pride kept her away , for she had the Ingelow share of that , and she soon discovered that her family 's estimate of James Sheldon had been the true one .
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