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Maud Barrington went with him to the door, and then laid her hand a moment on his arm. "Lance," she said, with a little tremor in her voice, "if there was a time when our distrust hurt you, it has recoiled upon our heads. You have returned it with a splendid generosity."
Brodie and Benny had given over their whispering and came back to the fire, where Brail and the Italian looked up at them sharply. Here was another guarded conference among the four; Gloria, though she could watch them, was unable to hear what they were saying. Jarrold began to grow uneasy, so soon is distrust bred amongst those who have found treasure.
Their dislike culminated one day in a dreadful scalding, inflicted upon the poor dog by the cook of an officers' mess, who poured a whole kettle of boiling water upon his back, causing him weeks of suffering and the loss of part of his beautiful glossy coat. This seemed to have implanted in his mind a profound distrust of negroes, which he never ceased to entertain until the day of his death.
The German in high place has realized this, and with the usual thoroughness of the race has set out to combat this friendship and prevent this joining. He is trying to do it by the regulation German method. He knows the British dislike of boasting, and that the American and the Britisher are woefully trusting. They themselves abhor deception and they distrust no man until they find him out.
But there may be people behind them who are looking out only for their own selfish interests. Men won't go against themselves." And with the firm conviction of a peasant fed on centuries of distrust, he added: "No good will ever come from the masters! Take my word for it!" "What concoction has your brain put together?" the mother asked, again seized with anxious misgiving.
I know the boy; don't seem to distrust him, he may be trusted. You place the true restraint on temptation when you say to him: 'We confide to you our dearest treasure, your honour, your morals, your conscience, yourself!" "But at least you will go with him, if it must be so," said Lady Mary, after a few timid arguments, from which, one by one, she was driven. "I! What for?
Boldness, in cases like this, is better than distrust. Send Pope to me." The butler was accordingly sent, and Charles, with a flattering show of candor, told him who he was, and requested his silence and aid. He had taken the right course, as it proved. Pope was of loyal blood.
Then with a grave melancholy in the look she fixed upon Valerie, she added: "Rather than distrust of me should occasion you pain, I have pained myself, in making clear to you the reason why I felt interest in M. de Rochebriant's conversation. In turn, I ask of you a favour do not on this point question me farther.
Poor Edgerton is dying music and painting are his solace they minister to his most active tastes. As for Julia, she is immaculate." "I distrust neither; but you should not throw away your pearl, because you think it can not suffer stain." "I do not throw it away." "You do not sufficiently cherish it." "What would you have me do wear it constantly in my bosom?"
"What! are you both blind to the real significance of papa's words? I could not have believed it! Or am I this time too acute? I pray to heaven it may be so!" Both ladies desired her to be explicit; Arabella, eagerly; Cornelia with distrust. "The question of a widow marrying! What is this woman, whom papa wishes to force on us as our guest? Why should he do that?
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