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Raby stood with folded arms, and contemplated the various acts of sacrilege with a silent distress that was really touching. Amboyne took more interest in the traces of the combat. "Ah!" said he, "this is where he threw the hot coals in their faces he has told me all about it. And look at this pool of blood on the floor! Here he felled one of them with his shovel.
Amboyne was too delighted at the news to feel these reproaches very deeply. "Thank God!" said he. "Scold me, for I deserve it. But I did for the best; but, unfortunately, we have still to account for his writing to no one all this time. No matter. I begin to hope. THAT was the worst evidence. Edith, I must go to Woodbine Villa. That poor girl must not marry in ignorance of this.
Finding him thus confused, the sprightly curate laughed and bade him good-morning, jumped into a hansom, and away to Woodbine Villa. Dr. Amboyne followed him slowly. "Drive me to Woodbine Villa. There's no hurry now." On the way, he turned the matter calmly over, and put this question to himself: Suppose he had reached the villa in time to tell Grace Carden the news!
"I don't know," said he, and looked at Jael Dence like a person watching for orders. Mrs. Little observed this, and turned keenly round to Jael. "Oh," said Jael, "the doctor I beg pardon, Dr. Amboyne can tell you that better than I can. It is a long way to Australia." "How you send me from one to another," said Mrs. Little, speaking very slowly. They made no reply to that, and Mrs.
He even drew near her to enable her to carry out her wish: but, on that, Jael Dence wrenched her round directly, and Dr. Amboyne disarmed her, and Raby marched between the bride and the bridegroom, and kept them apart: then they all drew their breath, for the first time, and looked aghast at each other.
They were then to sail west to "Terre Leeuwin," ascend the Swan River, complete the exploration of Shark's Bay and the north-western coasts, and winter in Timor or Amboyne. Finally, they were to coast along New Guinea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, and return to France in 1803.
He saw he must either cheat Dr. Amboyne, by shamming work, or else must leave Hillsborough. He had the honesty to go to the doctor and say that he had mastered the whole matter, and didn't see his way to take any more wages from a friend. "You mean you have mastered the broad facts." "I have, sir, and they are beyond belief; especially the file-cutters.
In the afternoon Dr. Amboyne, being now relieved of his anxiety as to Grace, remembered he had not been to see this poor girl for some time; so he went to the hospital. When he heard she was discharged, he felt annoyed with himself for not having paid her closer attention. And besides, Grace had repeatedly told him Jael Dence could make a revelation if she chose.
Raby took a much lighter view of it, and, to divert attention from her, he said, "Hallo! why this inscription has become legible. It used to be only legible in parts. Is that his doing?" "Not a doubt of it," said Amboyne. "Set that against his sacrilege." "Miss Carden and I are both agreed it was not sacrilege. What is here in this pew? A brass! Why this is the brass we could none of us decipher.
"Step in, sir; she won't be long now." Dr. Amboyne walked into the dining-room, and saw it adorned with a wealth of flowers, and the wedding-breakfast set out with the usual splendor; but there was nobody there; and immediately an uneasy suspicion crossed his mind. He came out into the passage, and found Lally there. "Are they gone to the church?" "They are," said Lally, with consummate coolness.
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