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Make haste and get the safes open and the books out. Look at the time," Eustace replied sharply. The keys of the big safe, or strong-room, as they termed it, were kept in a smaller one, to which there were two keys, Eustace and Harding each holding one. The last vestige of fear passed from Eustace's mind as the keys of the strong-room were found lying in their usual place.
He could not repress an exclamation as he read the name. "What is it?" she cried, as she came over to him. She gripped his arm as she also read the name. "Eustace!" she cried. "Eustace then it was he who " She stopped abruptly, staring at him. "Did you recognise him?" he asked. "It was dark I only saw them against the sky. They had their backs to me as they rode off.
The king had not forgotten his promise to Sir Eustace, and had raised him to the title of Baron Eustace of Summerley, and had presented him with a royal manor near Winchester.
But though we did not at all agree on the impression Madame van Hunker had made on us, we were of one mind to say nothing of it to Eustace. Another person laid her hand on Annora's arm as she was about to enter our carriage. 'Mistress Ribmont! she exclaimed; 'I knew not that you were present in this land of our exile.
She turned and tingled at his approach; he was looking more princely than ever. Instinctively she rose. "What do you want to get up for?" demanded her mother sharply. Sir Eustace reached his little trembling fiancée, and took the eager hand she stretched to him. His blue eyes flashed their fierce flame over her upturned, quivering face. "Take me into the kitchen anywhere!" he murmured.
Come to-morrow morning; I have something to tell you," she answered, and in another minute the carriage was gone, leaving him standing there in a condition of mind which really "can be better imagined than described." Eustace could never quite remember how he got through the evening of that eventful day. Everything connected with it seemed hazy to him.
"What is it now?" "There is a sweet womanly strength about her, Sam. She was telling me she once killed a panther with a hat-pin." Sam groaned and tossed on his mattress. Silence fell again. "At least I think it was a panther," said Eustace Hignett at a quarter past one. "Either a panther or a puma."
Even Father Eustace had held his spiritual Superior hitherto as a good-humoured, indolent, self-indulgent man, whose chief merit was the absence of gross faults; so that this sacrifice of power to a sense of duty, even if a little alloyed by the meaner motives of fear and apprehended difficulties, raised him considerably in the Sub-Prior's estimation.
"Well," he said sternly, "so there you are!" Eustace Hignett looked up brightly, even beamingly. In the brief interval which had elapsed since Sam had seen him last, an extraordinary transformation had taken place in this young man. His wan look had disappeared. His eyes were bright.
Ben, being elderly, and of very circumspect habits, was respectfully requested, by Cousin Eustace, to stay behind with the four little children, in order to keep them out of mischief.
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