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'Only say that, Alec, she repeated. 'Say that's not true, and I'll believe you. There was a silence. Lucy's heart beat against her breast like a caged bird. She waited in horrible suspense. 'But it is true, he said, very quietly. Lucy did not answer. She stared at him with terrified eyes. Her brain reeled, and she feared that she was going to faint.
Chester adjusted Lucy's wrap closely as they paced the deck slowly. The clouds lifted into the sky, shutting out the sun. On the horizon, winkings of lightning flashed. Evidently, a storm was coming. Captain Brown was quiet at the luncheon table. Chester noted it, and afterwards, followed the captain to the bridge. "How goes it?" asked Chester. "Not well," was the reply.
Nobody inside was very much interested about his coming or going; the Countess being occupied with her spaniel, the Lady Lucy's thoughts and eyes being turned upon a volume of sermons, and those of the Lady Ann upon a new novel, which the sisters had just procured from the library.
But I know already: you will not refuse to keep company with me in my little holiday; and Lucy's eyes are already sparkling at the idea of new bonnets, Milsom Street, a thousand adorers, and the pump-room. Ever, dear Joseph, yours affectionately,
"The best word you've spoke for many a day," says she, and leaves him unfee'd, in an attitude, to hurry and pour bliss into Lucy's ears. "Lord be praised!" she entered the adjoining room exclaiming, "we're got to be happy at last. They men have come to their senses. I could cry to your Virgin and kiss your Cross, you sweet!" "Hush!" Lucy admonished her, and crooned over the child on her knees.
I saw no more, for the whole scene reeled before my eyes, and I fainted away; but, by Lucy's report, the unhappy perpetrator of this action gazed a moment on the scene before him, until her screams began to alarm the people upon the lake, several of whom now came in sight. He then bounded over a hedge which divided the footpath from the plantation, and has not since been heard of.
Burgoyne in Lucy's presence, with a sudden accent of affection and emotion on some occasion when Manisty had borne the upsetting of a cherished plan for the afternoon with quite remarkable patience. 'He has learnt how to spoil you! said Eleanor, with a fluttering smile, and an immediate change of subject. Lucy looking up, felt a little pang.
From the first it was unpleasantly evident to Manisty that his sister took notice of Miss Foster. Almost her only words at table were addressed to the girl sitting opposite to her; and her roving eyes returned again and again to Lucy's fresh young face and quiet brow. After dinner Manisty followed the ladies into the salon, and asked his aunt's leave to smoke his cigarette with them.
He, too, had often thought of self-slaughter in an abstract way as the final defiance; but here was a mere girl for whom life held so little that she craved for and dared death. A remembrance of his own sister came back to him, softening his heart to pity. He touched Lucy's arm gently. 'And when you were thanking me just now, he said, 'you 'I lied?
'Oh, I see, the old gentleman ejaculated; 'the corner is turned down "has carried off many" yes "many of the horses." This little incident produced such strong emotions in Lucy's frame, that though she felt, upon the whole, much gratified by merely hearing about Luke's regiment and its horses, yet she became too ill to proceed with her work, and found it necessary to return to the cottage.
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