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Vholes's office. Sometimes I would meet him in the neighbourhood lounging about and biting his nails. I often met him wandering in Lincoln's Inn, near the place where I had first seen him, oh how different, how different! That the money Ada brought him was melting away with the candles I used to see burning after dark in Mr. Vholes's office I knew very well.
Nevertheless, this willingness excited no suspicion, till Miss Mohun came to the door to summon Valetta. 'Is there anything wrong! exclaimed sister and niece together. 'Gone to bed! Oh! I'll tell you presently. Don't you come, Gillian. She vanished again, leaving Gillian in no small alarm and vexation. 'I wonder what it can be, mused Aunt Ada.
She sat around in the Church Street house dumbly for nearly a year, then died, leaving the forlorn, pale little girl to her brother and sister-in-law as a legacy. This child she had named Adelle, thus proving the persistence of her fancy even in her forlornest hours. Ada or Addie was too common for the last of the Clarks. She should at least have something poetic for name. For who could say?
I should be more disposed to quarrel with myself even then, than with poor Rick, for I brought you together. But, tut, all this is nothing! He has time before him, and the race to run. I think the worse of him? Not I, my loving cousin! And not you, I swear!" "No, indeed, cousin John," said Ada, "I am sure I could not I am sure I would not think any ill of Richard if the whole world did.
Ada did as every right-minded girl, under the circumstances, would do she knelt in prayer not through abject fear for her own safety, did she pray, for of herself she thought not; but she prayed that her uncle, and the brave men with him on deck, might be shielded from danger a danger which it was very natural that from what she had heard she should considerably exaggerate.
I thank God for bringing him back to me through your nursing. And you are right in detaining him here, although the physician says he could travel now. He must first learn to know his fatherland and his home to which he was so long a stranger." "First learn?" said Ada, reprovingly.
The house-carles busied themselves in burnishing their mail and sharpening their weapons, while Ada and Hilda assisted Dame Astrid, Ulf's wife, to spread the board for the evening meal. Everything in the hall was suggestive of rude wealth and barbarous warlike times. The hall itself was unusually large capable of feasting at least two hundred men.
"Don't you think the young lady had better go below, out of the way of the damp, sir," began Bowse, puzzled what excuse to make. "Damp! surely there's none to hurt me," said Ada, looking up somewhat surprised. "It is so refreshing." "No, miss, the cold the night air may do you harm," rejoined Bowse. "I have no fear of either," answered Ada. "It's quite warm, and I do not even require a cloak."
"You are wrong, Miss Summerson," said she, "but perhaps you are not equal to hard work or the excitement of it, and that makes a vast difference. Miss Clare also, if she will do me the favour." Ada and I interchanged looks, and as we were going out in any case, accepted the offer. When we hastily returned from putting on our bonnets, we found the young family languishing in a corner and Mrs.
Ada overheard him. "It is because you are generous, and would preserve the lives of others, even though you risk your own," she said, in a low tone, touching his arm. "But if there is danger in remaining here, come with us. You can be conveyed in safety to your native country, and can ascertain if your father yet lives."
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