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This was excellent advice and Adrian was tired. He decided to trust to the other lad's common sense and larger experience, and having so decided, calmly stretched himself out upon the level bank of the stream and went to sleep. Pierre's temper rose still higher and after he had endured the sight of Adrian's indolence as long as possible he stepped to the river and dipped a bucket of water.
What was more, they preserved the peace in spite of Adrian's artifices. "Well, I'll talk to him again," he said. "I'll try to get the Engine on the conventional line." "Command him!" exclaimed Mrs. Doria. "Gentle means are, I think, the only means with Richard," said Lady Blandish. Throwing banter aside, as much as he could, Adrian spoke to Richard. "You want to reform this woman.
Her mother and I wondered even more than Susan, for we had more reason. Of what manuscript, in heaven's name, were these the printed proofs? Was it possible that I had been mistaken and that Jaffery, in the assiduity of love, had made coherence out of Adrian's farrago of despair? Jaffery touched Doria's hand with his finger tips.
What value can you attach to Adrian's memory when you say such things to me?" "I'm saying to you what every honest man has the right to say to the free woman he loves." "But I'm not a free woman. I'm bound to Adrian." "You can't be bound to him forever and ever." "I am.
"Dear old Rady," said Richard, tugging at his hand again, "how glad I am you've come! I don't mind telling you we've been horridly wretched." "Six, seven, eight, nine eggs," was Adrian's comment on a survey of the breakfast-table. "Why wouldn't he write? Why didn't he answer one of my letters? But here you are, so I don't mind now. He wants to see us, does he? We'll go up to-night.
There was much soft laughter and gay repartee; and Adrian followed the movements of Katherine's lithe form, clad in the soft, clinging grey of the convent. She became remiss; for Adrian's glances were confusing, and intentional laches were made by him, that he might come near her, almost touching her hair in bending to recover the ball.
"Many a thing is preserved here, friend!" said he; "in Adrian's church yonder they will still show you the bones of the three men that walked in the fire." "That is just the frightful play of destiny," replied Albano, "to occupy the heights of the mighty ancients with monks shorn down into slaves." "The stream of time drives new wheels," said Dian "yonder lies Raphael twice buried.
The vision of twenty dangerous places where one impetuous footfall might have hurled his darling into the cruel beating waves painted themselves a hideous phantasmagory upon Sir Adrian's brain. Had the merciless waters of the earth that had murdered the mother, grasped at the child's life also? He raised his voice in a wild cry, it seemed as if the wind caught it from him and tore it into shreds.
"No, Neal, you never told me; but this afternoon while you we're out I was looking for Adrian's check-book; I was sure we paid Dorman's bill last April, and that I took the check over myself. I was going through the desk, and I got on your side, thinking I might have left the check-book there by mistake, and I ran into the very midst of those letters, before I knew what I was about.
Ain't he grooved handsome. He's al'ays about Beltharp now. It ain't to fire no more ricks. He's afire 'unself. Ain't you seen 'em together? He's after the missis" Adrian requested Miss Davenport to be respectful, and confine herself to particulars. This buxom lass then told him that her young missis and Adrian's young gentleman were a pretty couple, and met one another every night.
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