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I could quite confidently say that, though we four had been about together in all sorts of places, for all that length of time, I had not, for my part, one single complaint to make of either of them. And I added, that that was an unusual record for people who had been so much together. You are not to imagine that it was only at Nauheim that we met. That would not have suited Florence.
I do not wish to explain myself too minutely to them. 'I am not quite so indiscreet as you think, my lord, replied Graham, with some dryness. 'Your wife shall leave Beorminster for Nauheim thinking that your desire for her departure is entirely on account of her health. 'Thank you again, doctor! and the bishop held out his hand.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. From diary: Mr. G. called. I had not seen him since Nauheim, Germany several years ago; the time that the cholera broke out at Hamburg.
I can't remember whether it was in our first year the first year of us four at Nauheim, because, of course, it would have been the fourth year of Florence and myself but it must have been in the first or second year. And that gives the measure at once of the extraordinariness of our discussion and of the swiftness with which intimacy had grown up between us.
When you return from Nauheim we shall speak further on the subject. 'When do you wish me to go, father? asked Gabriel, rising submissively. 'To-morrow, said the bishop, coldly. 'You can leave me now. 'I am sorry 'Sorry! cried Dr Pendle, with a frown. 'What is the use of words without deeds? Both you and George have given me a sore heart this day.
'I rather think you should go to Nauheim for that weak heart of yours, my love, replied Dr Pendle, arranging his wife's pillows; 'in fact, I want you and Lucy to go there next month. 'Indeed, bishop, I shall do no such thing! You are not fit to look after yourself. 'Then Graham shall look after me. 'Dr Graham! echoed Mrs Pendle, with contempt.
The subject was not mentioned that day at Nauheim, for we were hurrying away, and there was no time; but the thing that surprised me was this: when I introduced you, you said, 'I am glad to meet your lordship again. The 'again' was the surprise. He is a little hard of hearing, and didn't catch that word, and I thought you hadn't intended that he should.
Graham sat staring straight before him with an expression of absolute horror on his withered brown face. He recalled Pendle's sudden illness after Jentham had paid that fatal visit; his refusal to confess the real cause of his attack; his admission that he had a secret which he did not dare to reveal even to his oldest friend, and his strange act in sending away his wife and daughter to Nauheim.
I don't know how she managed it, but, for all the time they were at Nauheim, she contrived never to let those two be alone together, except in broad daylight, in very crowded places. If a Protestant had done that it would no doubt have awakened a self-consciousness in the girl. But Catholics, who have always reservations and queer spots of secrecy, can manage these things better.
He was losing weight; his eyes were beginning to fall in; he had touches of bad fever. He was, as he described it, pipped. And, one ghastly hot day, he suddenly heard himself say to Leonora: "I say, couldn't we take Mrs Maidan with us to Europe and drop her at Nauheim?" He hadn't had the least idea of saying that to Leonora.
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