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Couldn't dear Herbert go down to What's-his-name Pomeroy, and induce the father a grocer, if I remember right induce him, somehow or other, to compromise the matter? 'Compromise! cried Ernest, uncertain whether to laugh or be angry. 'Yes, compromise it! Lady Le Breton answered, endeavouring to calm herself.
Ernest, faithful to his vow, slept on the floor in the library, and though he sat down at the table with us, he tasted nothing but bread and water. A stranger might not have observed any striking difference in his manners, but he had forbidden himself even the glance of affection, and his eye studiously and severely avoided mine.
He was a poet, and wrote of things which God had made, in language so beautiful that one wished always to hear it. Ernest loved to read his words, and this evening, as they sat together, he looked long and earnestly at the poet and then up at the Great Stone Face, which seemed to be smiling down upon them. Then he sighed and shook his head sadly. "Why are you sad?" asked the poet.
At last Ernest, in high glee, rushed in among the family circle assembled around the drawing-room fire one evening, and declared that a right honest frost had, without the slightest doubt, set in, and that in two days he felt sure the ice would bear.
Look here, Ernest, you're going the wrong way to work altogether for your own happiness and comfort. It doesn't matter to me, of course; you can do as you like with yourself, and I oughtn't to interfere with you; but I do it because I'm your brother, and because I take a certain amount of interest in you accordingly.
But unfortunately in this case it couldn't. 'I'm at my wit's end what to do with you, Le Breton, he said kindly one morning to Ernest: 'but how on earth I'm to manage anything, I can't imagine.
Blenkinsopp and had seated himself nervously, with his hands folded before him, on a straight-backed chair There was a long and awkward pause, for the doctor didn't care to begin the interview; but at last he sighed deeply and said in a tone of genuine disappointment and difficulty, 'My dear Le Breton, this is really very unpleasant. Ernest looked at him, and said nothing.
Bates, because you are my oldest friend and supporter, and because you were the lifelong friend of my grandfather. I am going also to Dr. Bray and Dr. Ernest after I leave here. I do not want any one of you to feel that I expect you to shield me in this matter. You are at liberty to tell all that you know.
I am afraid I have quite lost sight of that in my indignation with Ernest for bringing them here. APRIL 3.-Martha is closeted with Ernest in his office day and night. They never give me the least hint of what is going on in these secret meetings. Then this morning Sarah, my good, faithful cook, bounced into my room to give warning.
She had condescended to come out to the farm, and she would let these country children see if they could order her about. Ernest said no more, but he promptly turned the boat around and pulled for the shore. "What are you doing?" asked Gladys. "Going ashore." "I don't want to," she exclaimed, her cheeks flushing. "I want to go up there." She pointed to a spot in the distance.
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