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The humour of this question was too much for him, and he laughed. Victoria's eyes laughed a little, but there was a pucker in her forehead. "Won't you tell me?" she demanded, "or must I get it out of him?" "I am afraid," said Austen, slowly, "that you must get it out of him if he hasn't forgotten it." "Forgotten it, dear old soul!" cried Victoria.
She went almost wild upon the subject, and was the more violent that she could not draw her husband into her views. It was not enough that he should listen with apparent patience to her harangues, she demanded his verbal assent to her opinions. His silence, his attempts at evasion, provoked her equally as his firmly expressed disapproval. Nothing could satisfy her.
He astonished Felgate that evening by a visit to his study. "Felgate," said he, "I wish to know your reason for giving Bateson a cigar to smoke." "I give Bateson a cigar, sir?" "Do you deny it, Felgate?" demanded the master sternly. "Oh," said the prefect, with a forced laugh, "I believe there was some joke about a cigar. He had a great fancy to try one."
But at the head of them stood a very magnificent looking personage in full armour, whom Bascomb took to be the captain of the ship. "Do you surrender, senor?" demanded Bascomb, speaking in English for the very good reason that he "had" no Spanish.
"Where's Jean?" Mrs. Dempster demanded, laying her right hand kindly upon his shoulder. "Gone! Gone!" was the low despairing reply. "Couldn't ye find her?" "See," and the old man pointed to his torn clothes and bleeding hands. "I followed her over the rocks and through the bushes. I was too slow and fell so often that she got away. Oh, my Jean, my little lass!
"And who'd even take it out of her closet?" demanded Tom, almost as stern as his father. "It surely didn't walk away of itself," said Aunt Kate. She took a small hand lamp and went with Nan to the east chamber. They searched diligently, but to no good end, save to assure Nan that Beulah had utterly disappeared.
It demanded the trial or liberation of the prisoners it had helped to send to Vincennes, without delay, and Mazarin removed them for safe custody to Havre. It then pronounced sentence of banishment on the obnoxious minister, and ordered him to quit the kingdom within fifteen days.
"What a thing to write to you! But what does he mean? Has he forgotten that he is a clergyman? Why, it's positively blasphemous! He is speaking of Christ, I suppose. My poor girl, he must be mad. Surely you see that, dear." Hilda stared on into the fire, and made no reply. Her mother hardly needed one, "Has he met another woman, Hilda?" she demanded.
As soon as this should be accomplished, he was to set out for Amsterdam, where the concerns of his late partner, old Mr. Panton, as his correspondents wrote, imperiously demanded his presence. This affair, which was so near Mr. Gresham's heart, related to his dear Constance.
I know of no measure more imperatively demanded by every consideration of national interest, sound policy, and equal justice than the admission of loyal members from the now unrepresented States. This would consummate the work of restoration and exert a most salutary influence in the reestablishment of peace, harmony, and fraternal feeling.
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