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"You don't put your name to these things!" "I did to one article, last March, in The Decade." "That is Graham's magazine, and I daresay Graham asked you to sign your name. When I see him I shall tell him it was done without sufficient consideration." "All articles are signed in The Decade," said Lettice.
Now she has got a fair field, and can live where she likes and exercise her talents as she pleases; and as I can be as unfeeling as I like in the bosom of my family, I will at once acknowledge that I am very glad the old man's gone." "I do hope and trust, Jim " "That I am not a born fool, my dear?" " That you won't say these things to Lettice herself." "Exactly.
Unless she changes, I have told thee aright, but my lady never changes in her love. Ah, me, I shall lose my mistress soon, and I am sad to think of it." "Nay, Lettice," interposed Manners, "thou shalt marry honest Will, and he shall be my chamberlain. Thou shalt be near Dorothy yet." The maid's countenance flushed with joy at the prospect of such bliss.
His proposal was received with a loud cheer, and the crew giving way, the boat, aided by the flood-tide, pulled back to James Town. The Rainbow was ready for sea, with the captain on board. A short note to Lettice, telling her that they had gone to catch the Don, and not omitting such expressions of affection as his heart prompted, was all Roger had time to write.
Such are among the incidental if I may call them so fruits of good conduct. If the vices spread wide their devastating influences the virtues extend their blessings a thousand fold. The general did not want for observation He had estimated the good which had arisen from the admission of Lettice Arnold into his family, and he felt well inclined to the scheme of having a companion of his own.
"But I was not quite bad, Miss Lettice. When he said that he would give me what I wanted make me a lady, and all the rest of it I shrank from doing what I knew to be wrong; or perhaps I was only afraid. At any rate, I would not listen to him. Then he declared that he loved me too well to let me go and he asked me to be his wife." "Oh!" said Lettice.
The light flickered again from the fiery perishing of a second moth. A strange feeling crept over him, a deepened sense of suspense, of imminence. He fingered his throat, and his hand was icy where it touched his burning face. He stood up in an increasing, nameless disturbance. A faint spasm crossed the drained countenance beneath him; the mouth fell open. He knew suddenly that Lettice was dead.
He put his arms around her, her head lay back, and he kissed the smooth fullness of her throat. He kissed her lips. The eternal, hapless cry of the whippoorwills throbbed on his hearing. The moon slipped behind a corner of the house, and a wave of darkness swept over them. Lettice began to tremble violently, and he led her back to their place on the veranda's edge.
"I won't stir an inch till I've had my lunch," she said; and from beneath the skirts of her dress there appeared a pair of stout, hob- nailed boots; from within her muff, two big, brown hands; and beneath the veil, a laughing, mischievous face. "Rex!" screamed Hilary, at the pitch of her voice. "Oh, you horrible, deceiving, bad, impertinent boy!" "Rex!" echoed Lettice in chorus.
For a moment he saw the form of Lettice as she stood at the window, with a lamp in her hand, framed like a picture by the ivy which covered the wall. Then the shutters closed, and he was left alone in the darkness. Alone, as he thought: but he was not alone.
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