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"Pimpernel," repeated Lord Holme, in a loud bass voice, as he lounged out of the room, grinning. The name tickled his fancy immensely. That was evident. Lady Holme fully intended to ask Miss Schley to the "something" already mentioned immediately. But somehow several days slipped by and it was difficult to find an unoccupied hour.
Randle Holme, in his 'Academy of Arms and Blazon, includes them in his descriptions, as a class of vagabonds 'feigning themselves mad. 'The Bedlam is in the same garb, with a long staff, etc., 'but his cloathing is more fantastic and ridiculous; for being a madman, he is madly decked and dressed all over with rubans, feathers, cuttings of cloth, and what not, to make him seem a madman, when he is no other than a dissembling knave.
The violence of them was no longer vivid but glassy. Lady Holme did not notice all this. The crowd was round her, and she was secretly preoccupied. She merely saw that Rupert Carey was close to her, and she knew who was following behind her. A strong impulse came upon her and she yielded to it without hesitation. As she reached Rupert Carey she stopped and held out her hand. "Mr.
"The cookin's awful poison and the wine's worse. Why, last time Laycock was there they actually gave him " "Poor dear Mr. Laycock! Did they really? But what can we do? I'm sure I don't want to be poisoned either. I love life." She was looking brilliant. Lord Holme began to straddle his legs. "And there's the box!" he said.
It was undefended and he won it. Not long ago Viola Holme became Viola Carey. When Robin Pierce heard of it in Rome he sat for a long time in deep thought. Even now, even after all that had passed, he felt a thrill of pain that was like the pain of jealousy.
Really it's the most disgusting thing I ever heard of!" Lady Cardington happened to be in the room and she suddenly flushed. "I don't think we know very much about it," she said, and her voice was rather louder than usual. "But Lord Holme is going to " began the lady who had been speaking. "He may be, and he may succeed. But my sympathies are not with him. He left his wife when she needed him."
"I'm going to have one of those things you hate before the Arkell House ball. I chose that night so that everyone should run away early! You won't be obliged to look at a horse in the country that particular day?" She spoke laughingly, as if she wanted him to say no, but would not be very angry if he didn't. Lord Holme tugged his moustache and looked very serious indeed. "Another!" he ejaculated.
"Yes; it must have been the Easting Ban upon which she struck that's a sunken rock quite near this holme. But I can't think what light it was you saw. You see the land on Lunda is very low along the sound, and there are only a very few people living on my island that is Boden there; the light couldn't have been there."
"And yet," she added, after a pause, "you can sing till you break the heart of age break its heart." Suddenly she burst into a flood of tears. Lady Holme was so surprised that she did absolutely nothing, did not attempt to console, to inquire. She sat and looked at Lady Cardington's tall figure swayed by grief, listened to the sound of her hoarse, gasping sobs.
Her face had suddenly aged while her frame was yet in its full strength, and such a change is not pleasant to look on. "Tom," she said, in a dry, commanding voice, "you must go up to the Holme at once and hear what news they have. There may be some chance it may please God to spare us yet." "Yes," answered the Rector meekly; "I will go." While he was lacing his boots with all speed Mrs.
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