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Campion, and the artful and half-suppressed gallantry of his manner to the heiress.
At the sight of it he broke down again and sobbed like a child. "And there's not a bite in the 'ouse, nor not likely to be for days; and I daren't go home and face the missus and the kids and I wish I was dead." I had already seen many pitiful tragedies during my brief experience with Campion; but the peculiar pitifulness of this one wrung my heart.
Among the domestics let into the secret, Henri de Campion names positively Gauseville. Over them were placed "the Sieurs d'Avancourt and De Brassy, Picardians, very resolute men and intimate friends of Lié." Their parts were allotted beforehand.
It's not fit for an innocent maiden to handle even with gloves on." "What book is it?" It was Colonel Campion who spoke in the harsh tone of one issuing a command. Olga coloured fierily. "I was taking it away with me to burn on the garden bonfire," she said. "Give it to me!" he said. "No, don't, Allegro! It isn't yours to give. You may give it to Dr. Wyndham if you like, but not to Bruce."
But to my pleasant surprise the Oxonians seemed not at all surprised at the sudden appearance of one asking, in a voice a little shaken with emotion, for a copy of the "Miscellanies." Mr. Campion and Mr. Krause, who greeted me, were kindness itself. "Oh, yes," they said, "we have a copy." And in a minute it lay before me.
The further development of brother and sister can scarcely be understood without a retrospective glance at their own and their parents' history. The Reverend Lawrence Campion, Rector of Angleford, was at this time a prosperous and contented man. Before he reached his fortieth year, he had been presented by an old college friend to a comfortable living.
What makes me say so, is that, whilst he was under that resolution, I always observed that he had an internal repugnance which, if I mistake not, was overcome by some pledge which he may have given to those ladies." There was, therefore, a plot, and its real author, as Mazarin truly said, and Campion repeats, was Madame de Chevreuse; if so, Madame de Montbazon was only an instrument in her hands.
A fair, roseate complexion, and a winning manner, served to disguise these points of difference; and Mrs. Campion had not quick sight for anything which did not lie upon the surface, in the character of those with whom she had to do.
Poor Captain Campion must have thought a lot of it to protect it so thoroughly." "He might have been taking it to the New World as a gift for some influential friend," Rick ventured. "It looks like Spanish work." Scotty looked at Rick speculatively. "Are you making a claim on this?" Rick knitted his brows. What was Scotty driving at? "You found it," he said.
The summer days went by, and every day brought its fresh rumour about Campion.
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