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'In the name of goodness get that bugbear out of your head, said Undy. 'Whatever good it might have done you to think of that some time ago, it can do you no good now. There was a bitter truth in this which made Alaric's heart sink low within his breast.
In addition to the incentive to aid the man thus created, an ardent curiosity to discover his secret filled the mind of Hermanric, and further powerfully inclined him to conduct his determined companion into Alaric's presence for by such proceeding only could he hope, after the man's firm declaration that he would communicate in the first instance to no one but the king, to penetrate ultimately the object of his mysterious errand.
For Alaric's own sake she would no longer have troubled herself to do so; but Gertrude was still her daughter, her dear child. Gertrude had done nothing to disentitle her to a child's part, and a child's protection; and even had she done so, Mrs. Woodward was not a woman to be unforgiving to her child.
A verdict, that is, a unanimous decision from these twelve men as to Alaric's guilt, was necessary; it might be that three would think him innocent, and nine guilty, or that any other division of opinion might take place; but such divisions among a jury are opposed to the spirit of the British constitution. Twelve men must think alike; or, if they will not, they must be made to do so.
All those circumstances had, of course, been talked over between Harry and Linda, and it was understood that Harry was now to resign his situation at the Weights and Measures. But Alaric's condition, Gertrude's misery, and Katie's illness, threw all such matters into the background.
Such journeys as these are always made at a slow pace. Cabmen know very well who must go fast, and who may go slow. Women with children going on board an emigrant vessel at six o'clock on a February morning may be taken very slowly. And very slowly Gertrude and her party were taken. Time had been nay, it was but the other day when Alaric's impatient soul would have spurned at such a pace as this.
'And, mamma, and she whispered close into her mother's ear, as she made her next request; 'and, mamma, you will be with me on that day? We need not follow Norman in his efforts to have her full fortune restored to Madame Jaquetanape. He was daily in connexion with Alaric's lawyer, and returned sometimes with hope and sometimes without it. Mrs.
Could he have laid bare his heart, he would have declared that Alaric Tudor owed him nothing; that he had never forgiven, never could forgive, the wrongs he had received from him; but that he had forgiven Alaric's wife; and that having done so in the tenderness of his heart, he had been ready to give up all that he possessed for her protection.
The lamb would be a pretty gift for Dorothy and would tell her better than words that he remembered her and was safe. Only the little animal was like everything else seen in this cabin so dirty! He couldn't send it to dainty Dorothy in such condition. In a few words he explained to the shepherd his ideas about it and was amused by the infinite contempt shown on Alaric's face.
As Alaric is a general in partial rebellion against the Imperial authority, these auxiliaries join him. The total number of Alaric's men was at this moment very small; they were perhaps 30,000. There was no trace of nationality about them.
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