text: " Thus even with such terrible prospects awaiting herself the good generous Mary trembled only to contemplate those of her regardless sister; and it was chiefly for the delight of revisiting the spots where they had played together in childhood--the fondly-remembered environs of Stanley Manor--that she persuaded her husband to take up his abode in the deserted mansion at the Park where from prudential motives Mr Sparks had broken up his establishment and sold off his horses