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While yet a boy, Marmion Herbert afforded many indications of possessing a mind alike visionary and inquisitive, and both, although not in an equal degree, sceptical and creative. Nature had gifted him with precocious talents; and with a temperament essentially poetic, he was nevertheless a great student.
At midnight Carl caught the New York boat, landing in that city in time for early breakfast. Carl could not pass through the city without calling upon his kind friend Marmion. The Doctor was delighted to see him, and especially when he learned the young man's errand that he was on his way to pay the last installment of his debt.
Come upstairs, Professor, and we can talk." Dinner was served a few minutes after they got into the room that Merrill had reserved on the first floor. The waiter was dismissed and the door locked, and then Franklin Marmion told Mark Merrill the most wonderful story he had ever heard.
"I don't know quite how you intend to work this thing, but you have the case in your hands, and what you've told me about the French girl shows that she is to be trusted. But as for myself, Marmion M.D., I'm sick sick sick of this woman, and all her words and works.
He sat down without a word, took his cup of tea and a slice of bread and butter; listened in silence as long as he could bear the entirely feminine conversation on a subject in which he hadn't the remotest interest, and then he put his cup down with a little jerk, got up with a bigger one, and said, holding out his hand to Miss Nitocris: "Well, Miss Marmion, I shall have to say good afternoon.
Besides, if you are given the chance, you commit suicide if you do not take it." There was a long pause, and then he said: "You are right; I will live if I can, Marmion." "And now YOU are right." I nodded soothingly to him, and then asked him to talk no more; for I knew that fever would soon come on. He lay for a moment silent, but at length whispered: "Did you know it was not a fall I had?"
Then we voyaged, you remember, to that further cave in, the solid rock, just above low-water-mark, a cell unapproachable by land, and high enough for you to stand erect. There you wished to play Constance in Marmion, and to be walled up alive, if convenient; but as it proved impracticable on that day, you helped me to secure some bits of drift-wood instead.
The morning's studies being over, they had set off to take a ramble on the hills, and gather heather-blossoms with which to decorate their hair for dinner. As they came bounding lightly, like young fawns, and their dresses fluttering in the pure summer breeze, I was reminded of Scott's own description of his children in his introduction to one of the cantos of "Marmion."
You look the very picture of a man who has slept the sleep of the just. And Miss Marmion?" "Thanks, Your Highness, I think we have both managed to spend the night to good purpose. The air here is glorious just now. I always think that sound, dreamless sleep is the best sign that a place is doing you good." "Oh, undoubtedly, though for some reason or other I did not sleep very well last night.
That sort of thing grows on a chap when he's alone and talks aloud!" "Hul-lo! Have you been there already?" the father said, and Adam nodded. "Yes. Used to spout what I could remember of 'Marmion' to a tree, sir. Well then my luck turned. One evening an English-speaking nigger came in towing a corpse by the feet.
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