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Silently leading the way through the dusky corridor, no longer illumined by the moonlight, he entered his daughter's room before her. The lamp, still burning there, revealed the agitated face of her sister who, resting her chin on her hand, sat on the stool beside the spinning wheel. Eva's courage, which had blazed up so brightly, instantly fell again. "Good heavens!
He turned round. 'Back! Back! said the voice. 'Drive like hell! I will give you a sovereign if you do it under an hour. The coachman was amazed, but a sovereign is better than a half-sovereign. He turned his bewildered horses for home. Robert Molyneux's struggle was over. Eva's face was gone now altogether.
At all events, I would not tell Stires how seriously she had loved him. He was a very provincial person, and I think considering her pedigree it would have shocked him. French Eva's cerebrations are in some ways a mystery to me, but I am sure she knew what she wanted. I fancy she thought but, as I say, I do not know that the mode of her passing would at least make all clear to Stires.
He loved Eva, and the image of her white, supernaturally beautiful figure, flooded by the moonlight, still stood before him as distinctly as when, after her disappearance, he had resolved to plead his suit for her to her sister; but the usually reckless fellow asked himself, shuddering, what would have happened had he obeyed Eva's summons and been found with her, as he had just been surprised with her sister.
Eva's soul was entirely occupied by one object, which laid claim to all her thoughts and feelings, and this was Major R . His handsome person, his brilliant talents; his amiability, his love; the parties in which she had met him, the balls in which she had danced with him; the occasions on which they had played parts together in short, all the romantic unfoldings of their connexion, were the pictures which now alone lived in her heart, and danced around her fancy, now heated by worldly happiness.
"I do but laugh to think of Eva's face, when she shall find neither thee nor me," she said to Maude, "and likewise his Highness' gaolers, waking up to an empty cage where the little birds should be." Maude's heart was too heavy and anxious about the issue of the adventure to enable her to reply lightly.
The Abbess Kunigunde had also appeared sometimes at his bedside, and Eva's conversations with her revealed to him that she had obtained her armour against the Dominicans from the Sisters of St. Clare.
Here it was secluded, yet full of life, and amidst the wealth of sounds in which might be heard the tapping of the woodpecker, the cry of the lapwing, and the call of the distant wood-pigeon, it was so still and peaceful that Eva's heart grew lighter in spite of her grief. Sister Perpetua spoke only to answer a question.
But she ought not to have joined in the boisterous laugh with which her father rewarded the old slanderer's news. No! The knight's experience must have made a deeper impression than the others suspected. Perhaps little Eva's love would result in her seeking with the sisters of St. Clare, and Heinz with the Franciscans, peace and a loftier passion.
By this time Toni was quite able to appreciate the part Eva Herrick had played in her unfortunate escapade; and she realised, very plainly, that Eva's unhappy desire to ruin other lives as hers had been ruined, had been at the bottom of her eager sympathy and pretended help.
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