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Lisle had with some difficulty been dressed in dry clothes, and he lay with his eyes shut on a couch of cedar sprays beside a fire, when Batley rose and turned to Nasmyth. "I don't think we need be anxious," he said. "The warmth is coming back to him and he's breathing regularly.
"You can't think I meant to be cruel to our Sissy," he said. "You will let me speak to her?" She softly pushed back his hair. After all, he was the man Sissy loved. "What was it?" she asked: "what did you do?" He looked down. "I'm going to marry Miss Lisle," he said. She started away from him: "You told her that? God forgive you, Percival!" "I should have been a liar if I hadn't."
Her confidence hurt him; he had still a sense of shame, and he found no great comfort in what she told him. His mother was generally loved, and he wondered how far his neighbors had been influenced by a desire to save her pain. "It looks as if Lisle deserves their commiseration more than I do," he answered with a smile which cost him an effort. "It is being shown.
We have just learned, in answer to our inquiries at Lisle Court, that the respected owner is considerably worse: but slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. Captain Maltravers, his eldest son and heir, is at Lisle Court. An express has been despatched in search of Mr.
"It's an Indian word for a river gorge. I went up it not long ago." "Then," exclaimed Crestwick, "I suppose you know the mine?" Lisle glanced at the others. Their eyes were fixed upon him, Batley's steadily, Gladwyne's with a hint of uneasiness. It was, he felt, a remarkable piece of good fortune that had given him control of the situation. "Yes," he answered carelessly, "I know the mine."
"Blood for Blood!" she cried out in a loud clear voice; and she drew a Pistol from the folds of her mantle, and fired downwards, and with good aim, at the Protector's head. My Lady Lisle saw the deed done. "Jezebel!" she shrieked, striking the weapon from Arabella's hand. Oliver escaped unharmed, but by an almost miracle.
"I'm sure I hardly know," said Percival, coming forward. "Let's have 'Shall I, wasting in despair," Lisle suggested. "It has been going in my head all this morning." He played a few notes. "No, no!" the other exclaimed hurriedly "not that." Too well he remembered the tender devotion of more than a year before: If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve.
Lisle set his lips as he looked back on what he now considered his weakness in withholding the story of Gladwyne's treachery. Had he declared it at the beginning, Mrs. Gladwyne would have suffered no more than she must do, and it would have saved Millicent and himself from the pain that must fall upon them.
Rising at length, Lisle walked toward the dangerous spot, guiding himself by sound, for once he was out of the firelight there was nothing to be seen but a white driving cloud. He knew when he had reached the neighborhood of the rapid by the increased clamor of the stream, and he crept on until he decided that he was abreast of the pool below.
"I fail to see how it concerns you, or, for that matter, either of us." "We won't go into the question it's beside the point. What I want you to do is to pull him up." He spoke as if he meant to be obeyed, and Gladwyne looked at him in incredulous astonishment. "Do you suppose I'm able to restrain the lad?" "You ought to be," Lisle answered coolly.
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