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Her glance roved from one to the other, and Miss Martha pinched herself to make certain that she had not fallen into a bad dream, while Dunham crimsoned under the burning gaze. "Syl Sylvia, is that you!" exclaimed Miss Lacey unsteadily. The girl scorned to reply. White and accusing she stood. Miss Martha looked up at her companion appealingly. "Mr. Mr. Sir Walter Oh, I don't know your name!"
On the decks of the little steamer which was to carry them south David, Ebn Ezra, Lacey, and Mahommed waited. Presently Kaid came, accompanied by his faithful Nubians, their armour glowing in the first warm light of the rising sun, and crowds of people, who had suddenly emerged, ran shrilling to the waterside behind him.
Lacey sat by her father and paid him every possible attention. "Will you take soup, Mr. Middleton?" asked Mrs. Crane. "What kind of soup? Beef soup, or mud turkle?" "It is vermicelli," said Mrs. Crane, hardly able to keep her face straight. "Vermifuge—vermifuge," repeated Mr. Middleton. "That’s almighty queer stuff to make soup on. No. I’m ’bleeged to you; I ain’t in need of that ar medicine."
"The Miss Owens," said she, soon afterwards; "suppose you were to have one of the Miss Owens settled at Thornton Lacey; how should you like it? Stranger things have happened. I dare say they are trying for it. And they are quite in the light, for it would be a very pretty establishment for them. I do not at all wonder or blame them. It is everybody's duty to do as well for themselves as they can.
Fanny seemed disturbed to hear evil spoken of Dr. Lacey, so Julia changed her manner, and said, "I do not wonder you feel badly, Fanny. You and I can sympathize together now." Fanny looked at her sister in some surprise, but at last answered, "Oh no, you cannot know how I feel. Mr. Wilmot loved you to the last. Dr. Lacey is not dead, but—"
"Is there none that thou lovest so " Of what use had been all his struggle and his pain since that last day in Hamley his dark fighting days in the desert with Lacey and Mahommed, and his handful of faithful followers, hemmed in by dangers, the sands swarming with Arabs who feathered now to his safety, now to his doom, and his heart had hungered for what he had denied it with a will that would not be conquered?
Lacey was a good swimmer, but he was heavy, and David was a better, but Mahommed had proved his merit in the past on many an occasion when the laws of the river were reaching out strong hands for him. Now, as Mahommed swam, he kept moaning to himself, cursing his father and his father's son, as though he himself were to blame for the crime which had been committed.
"This is a grateful man," said Mrs de Lacey, wiping her eyes, "and I dare say a competent judge of a vessel. And are you quite sure, worthy friend, that my late revered husband had all his ships arranged like the one of which we have been talking?" "Very sure, Madam; for, with my own hands, did I assist to rig them." "Even to the bobstays?" "And the gammonings, my Lady.
These ladies ran against each other, upset the camphor bottle, dropped the lamp and spilled half the cologne, in their zealous efforts to take care of their patient! In the midst of their confusion Dr. Lacey entered, and they immediately gave up to him the task of restoring her. This he soon did, for it would seem that his very voice had a power to recall Fanny’s suspended faculties.
If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it." The game was hers, and only did not pay her for what she had given to secure it. Another deal proceeded, and Crawford began again about Thornton Lacey. "My plan may not be the best possible: I had not many minutes to form it in; but you must do a good deal.
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