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The world for once became astonishingly Christian; it paid back all his efforts to excite its resentment with the purest of charity; when Neal struck it on the one cheek, it meekly turned unto him the other. It could scarcely be expected that Neal would bear this. To have the whole world in friendship with a man is beyond doubt an affliction.
O'Connor, having thus expressed himself, departed; and Neal stood, with the cudgel in his hand, looking at the door out of which he passed, with an expression of fierceness, contempt, and reflection strongly blended on the ruins of his once heroic visage. Many a man has happiness within his reach if he but knew it. The tailor had been hitherto miserable because he pursued a wrong object.
In a few minutes, when I have delivered my sentence, Maurice will flog the prisoner, and afterwards hang him with one of the bell ropes." "I want to speak to you, Neal," said Lord Dunseveric, gravely. Neal pulled his hands from their bandage, and rose, blinking and uncomfortable, to his feet. "How solemn you are!" said the Comtesse. "What has that very boorish Captain Twinely been telling you?
"What did he look like?" Mrs. Sommers was very sober. Her smile congealed. "Black hair, and young, and good-lookin', and b-b-brown eyes, and " "God!" "Vic," cried Betty Neal, "what is it!" She looked around her in terror. "It's Barry." He turned towards the door, and then stopped, in an agony of indecision. Betty Neal was before him, blocking the way with her arms outstretched.
Their eyes met, and the Comtesse felt certain that her victim would return to her. She leaped from her chair the moment he left her and ran from the room. "Una," she cried. "Una, Maurice, where are you?" She found them; they were packing clothes in a hand-bag clothes, she supposed, for Neal. "He's gone to give orders to his men about you, Maurice. I know he has. I haven't a moment to explain.
Neal and Dorothy were both experienced entertainers and the little party was a complete success. From Wednesday evening the Neal home became the center of gaiety for more than a dozen young persons.
It signifies something to learn that he controlled more land growing wheat than any of half a dozen European kings reign over. It means something to realize that in those years of his high tide John Barclay, by a few lines dictated to Neal Ward, could have put bread out of the reach of millions of his fellow-creatures.
Neal looked at his medical attendant with a sour surprise. There was a latent anxiety in the doctor's eye, a latent preoccupation in the doctor's manner, which he was at a loss to account for. For a moment the two faces confronted each other silently, in marked national contrast the Scotchman's, long and lean, hard and regular; the German's, plump and florid, soft and shapeless.
As he walked home that night under the stars, his heart was full of John Barclay's troubles. Neal knew Barclay well enough to know that the sensitive nature of the man, with his strongly developed instinctive faculty for getting at the truth, would be his curse in the turmoil or criticism through which he was going.
The grounds of the house which they had hired joined my uncle's, and my Aunt Ann, usually averse to making new acquaintances, had called upon them at once, and had welcomed them most warmly to her house. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Neal and two sons, Arthur and Edward.
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