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Parshefield. "I could not have done better myself." "It was so good of you, Harry," said Alice. "I shall never forget your kindness." Then she threw her arms about Aunt Ella's neck. "Oh, Auntie, if he had been taken from me, I could not have borne it."
And again it seemed to him that this doubt was driving him mad. Deede Dawson entered the house and got a bottle of whisky and a syphon of soda-water and mixed himself a drink. For the first time since Ella's departure he seemed to remember Dunn's presence. "Oh, there you are," he said. Dunn did not answer.
"It's fallen through." "But what plan was it?" "I thought I should be able to set up a sort of broad church chapel. I had a promise." Her voice was rich with indignation. "And she has betrayed you?" "No," he said, "I have betrayed her." Lady Ella's face showed them still at cross purposes. He looked down again and frowned. "I can't do that chapel business," he said. "I've had to let her down.
Long afterward she tried to remember what they had talked about. She knew that the conversation had been to her as a draught of sparkling wine. All her little affections were in full play to-night, the little odds and ends of worldly knowledge she had gleaned from Ella and Ella's friends, the humor of Emily and Peter Coleman.
"He, at all events, unlike some of his relations, is guiltless of foolish words or foolish actions. I don't pretend to share Ella's superstitions, but some people's good wishes are very well worth having." Unwillingly Mary Cathcart raised her eyes. Her head was still carried a little high and her cheeks were still glowing.
'Ella! cried the monk; 'Alleluia shall be sung in Ella's land'; and he passed on his way with a silent vow that one day he would find a means of teaching the English people to become Christians. Here the history of these children ends, so far as we know it. The old writer who tells us of the meeting of the monk Gregory with the captive children does not say what became of them after this.
Horace fought on, keeping up a position in the town and hoping that miracles would occur. Then Ella's expectations were realized. Sidney and she had some twenty thousand pounds to play with. And they played the most agreeable games. But not in Bursley. No. They left Horace in Bursley and went to Llandudno for a spell.
Though the intensity of my own interest would not allow my eyes to wander from his face, I could imagine the strained look in Ella's, as she awaited his words. They came in another instant, but with less steadiness than he had shown before.
Generous himself, he was deeply touched by the proud man's absolute surrender, and he at once appreciated the fine nature which had been revealed by the letter. "Now," he reasoned, "as far as her father is concerned, the way is open for me to seek Ella's love by patient and devoted attentions. I shall at last have the chance which was impossible when I could not approach her at all.
"I guess," she said bravely, "that we'd better leave your mother out of this discussion. After all, it's between you and your conscience." "Say," Ella's face was suddenly drawn and ugly, "say, where do you get off to pull this conscience stuff? You've always had a nice home, an' pretty clothes, an' clean vittles, an' an' love! I ain't had any of it. But," her eyes flamed, "I'm goin' to!
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