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Miss Havisham will soon be expecting you at your old post, though I think that might be laid aside now, with other old belongings. Let us make one more round of the garden, and then go in. Come! Her handsome dress had trailed upon the ground. She held it in one hand now, and with the other lightly touched my shoulder as we walked.
I will gladly listen to any counsel you may have to give anent this matter." Havisham shook his head. "I have nothing to say. The spirit of the father lives in the son. Skillful in planning, bold in action was Warham Landless!" "I am but the tool of Robert Godwyn," said Landless. "You approve, then, of our arrangements?" "Entirely.
"What do you think of Havisham as presidential material?" asked Enoch. "Too good-natured! A splendid fellow but not quite enough chin! By the way, I understand you refused to commit yourself to him the other day." Enoch rose with a sigh. "Life to some people seems to be a simple aye! aye! nay! nay! proposition. It never has been to me.
"First, notwithstanding the proverb that constant dropping will wear away a stone, you may set your mind at rest that these people never will never would, in hundred years impair your ground with Miss Havisham, in any particular, great or small. Second, I am beholden to you as the cause of their being so busy and so mean in vain, and there is my hand upon it."
"Abroad," said Miss Havisham; "educating for a lady; far out of reach; prettier than ever; admired by all who see her. Do you feel that you have lost her?" I was spared the trouble of answering by being dismissed, and went home dissatisfied and uncomfortable, thinking myself coarse and common, and wanting to be a gentleman.
Godolphin was justly punished if he were culpable, and he suffered an eclipse in any case which could not have been greater from Miss Havisham. There were recalls for the chief actors at every fall of the curtain, and at the end of the third act, in which Godolphin had really been magnificent, there began to be cries of "Author!
Thomas closed the carriage door; and, after a puzzled look, Fauntleroy ran up the drive. The Earl had the opportunity as Mr. Havisham once had of seeing a pair of handsome, strong little legs flash over the ground with astonishing rapidity. Evidently their owner had no intention of losing any time. The carriage rolled slowly away, but his lordship did not at once lean back; he still looked out.
Here and there, living in caves and cellars, a few citizens still stick to their homes. A few stores remain open and an occasional trickle of commerce flows down the streets. We went to the cathedral and found its outlines there a veritable Miss Havisham of a ruin, the pale spectre of its former beauty, but proud and if stone and iron can be conscious vain of its lost glory.
"Yes," said Maxwell, and he kept himself from falling on Grayson's neck for joy. "It might do," the actor assented with smiling eagerness and tolerant superiority. "But whom could you get for such a Salome as that?" "Well, there's only one woman for it," said Grayson. "Yolande Havisham?" The name made Maxwell's heart stop. He started forward to say that Mrs.
Over and over and over again we made these journeys, sometimes lasting for three hours at a stretch, and from that time I returned to her every alternate day at noon for that purpose, and kept returning through a period of eight or ten months. As we began to be more used to one another, Miss Havisham talked more to me, and asked me many questions about myself.
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