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Sometimes as a boy, with Plutarch in my hand, stretched idly under the old cedar-trees at Laughton; sometimes as a sailor, when, becalmed on the Atlantic, and my ears freshly filled with tales of Collingwood and Nelson, I stole from my comrades and leaned musingly over the boundless sea.
A strange light gleamed in her wondrous eyes, and Laughton was startled again to see the extraordinary resemblance between her and the picture they had looked at on the day the goblet had been bought. "When the poison was poured into it," she said at last, with quick and restless glances at the two men, "the glass broke then the tale was true?"
"Let it be so," said Sir Miles, briefly; and so the conversation closed. Some weeks afterwards, Lucretia went in her uncle's carriage, with four post-horses, with her maid and her footman, went in the state and pomp of heiress to Laughton, to the small lodging-house in which the kind pastor crowded his children and his young guest. She stayed there some days.
Yet I ought to have come to England when I heard of the child's loss, braved duns and all; but I was money-making, money-making, retribution for money-wasting; and well, it's no use repenting! And and there is the lodge, the park, the old trees! Poor Sir Miles!" Meanwhile at Laughton there was confusion and alarm.
She wrote to him simply and distantly, to state that there were some books and trifles of hers left at Laughton, which she prized beyond their trivial value, and to request, as she believed him to be absent from the Hall, permission to call at her old home, in her way to a visit in a neighbouring county, and point out to whomsoever he might appoint to meet her, the effects she deemed herself privileged to claim.
In that laugh fled forever, till the Judgment-day, from the blackened ruins of her lost soul, the reason of the murderess-mother. Varney's self-commune restored to him his constitutional audacity. He returned to Laughton towards the evening, and held a long conference with Greville.
Greville was on the road, nay, as his tutor's letter had been forwarded from London, might perhaps be in Curzon Street that day. How desirable to see him before he could reach Laughton, to prepare him for Madame Dalibard's visit, for Helen's illness, explain the position in which he was involved, and conciliate the old soldier's rough, kind heart to his love and his distress.
The scales fell from my eyes, and I saw him once more in a sky-blue army shirt, behind barbed wire, among Dutch prisoners bathing at Simonstown, more than a dozen years ago . 'Why, it's Zigler Laughton O. Zigler! I cried. 'Well, I am glad to see you. 'Oh no! You don't work any of your English on me. "So glad to see you, doncher know an' ta-ta!" Do you reside in this village? 'No.
"He has exchanged his living for a year, on account of his wife's health, and rather, I think also, with the wish to bring poor Susan nearer to Laughton, in the chance of her uncle seeing her. But you are, then, acquainted with Fielden?" "Acquainted! my best friend. He was my tutor, and prepared me for Caius College.
If you doubt this, you have but to inquire at , not ten miles from Laughton, where the elder Mainwaring resided. Ask there what became of William Mainwaring. And Lucretia, you do not know that the dying prayer of her uncle, Sir Miles St. John, was that she might never enter the house he bequeathed to your father.
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