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Captain Danton smoked and Grace talked to him; and while she sat, Father Francis opened the garden gate and joined them. "Have you heard from your brother yet?" he asked of Grace, after a few moments' preliminary conversation. "No; it is rather strange that he does not write." "He told me to make his apologies. I had a letter from him to-day. He is very busy preparing to go away." "Go away!
What resolution had they come to, he asked, as he could not authorize them to fight? This same question had occupied the whole regiment for the last twenty-four hours. Apologies were unacceptable on account of the blow, but as Laguitte was almost unable to stand, it was hoped that, should the colonel insist upon it, some reconciliation might be patched up.
It is true that, in one of the earliest numbers of one of the new journals, a paragraph appeared which seemed intended to convey an insinuation that the Princess Anne did not sincerely rejoice at the fall of Namur. But the printer made haste to atone for his fault by the most submissive apologies.
The sort of man one would suppose, who, if his lord were to tell him to jump into the pit Tophet, would pursue one of two courses, either jump in himself, without further to do, or throw his own brother in with profuse apologies.
While he was lifting her to a level with his face, and talking to her in his wonderful broken English while the rector and Mrs. Finch were making the necessary apologies for the child's conduct Nugent came round from behind Herr Grosse, and drew me mysteriously into a corner of the room.
Very early the next morning I called upon her. She was still asleep. The widow told me that she had made a pretty good supper, but without speaking a single word, and that she had locked herself up in her room immediately afterwards. As soon as she had opened her door, I entered her room, and, cutting short her apologies for having kept me waiting, I informed her of all I had heard.
I left more apologies in course of delivery behind me, and followed this strange creature limping on before me, faster and faster down the slope of the beach. She led me behind some boats, out of sight and hearing of the few people in the fishing-village, and then stopped, and faced me for the first time. "Stand there," she said, "I want to look at you."
"The care with which you have tended me, sir, has helped my mistake: and now my gratitude for it must help my apologies. I fear I have, from time to time, allowed my tongue to take many liberties with your profession." "You have, to be sure, been somewhat hard with us." "My prejudice is an honest one, sir." "Of that there can be no possible doubt." "But it must frequently have pained you."
"You have no apology to make, Sir," cried Cecilia, "since, believe me, I require none." "You may well," returned he, half-smiling, "dispense with my apologies, since under the sanction of that word, I obtained your hearing yesterday. But, believe me, you will now find me far more reasonable; a whole night's reflections reflections which no repose interrupted! have brought me to my senses.
His apologies were as thorough as his methods, and seldom failed in disarming the indignation of his victims; but, as day succeeded day, they were no nearer to discovering Tuppence's whereabouts. So well had the abduction been planned that the girl seemed literally to have vanished into thin air. And another preoccupation was weighing on Tommy's mind.
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