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The face was pale, the eyes gooseberry-like, the ears drooping, and the whole aspect that of a man who has passed through the furnace and been caught in the machinery. I hitched myself up a bit higher on the pillows and gazed at him narrowly. It was a moment, I could see, when first aid was required, and I prepared to get down to cases. "Well, Gussie." "Hullo, Bertie." "What ho." "What ho."
And as Carrington quitted the room, Norton drew himself up on the pillows and faced the door. "This is worth several beatings, Betty!" he exclaimed as she appeared on the threshold. But much cotton and many bandages lent him a rather fearful aspect, and Betty paused with a little gasp of dismay. "I'm lots better than I look, I expect," said Norton.
That was soon resolved. Mr. Ashmead had hired a saloon carriage for them, with couches and conveniences. They entered it; and Mademoiselle Klosking said to Miss Gale, "It is necessary that I should sleep." "You shall," said Miss Gale. While she was arranging the pillows and things, La Klosking said to Vizard, "We artists learn to sleep when we have work to do.
"I will go over and see my cousin when I can be spared." But a sudden call from the sickroom startled them both. Buntingford hurried forward. When Buntingford entered he found the patient lying in a deep old-fashioned chair propped up by pillows.
They did not know how far outside of it she felt; how dim the twilight was becoming to her eyes; how dim the voices to her ears. She lay back on her pillows, in the shadow of the divan, and they supposed her to be listening, as before, to what they said; to be drawing into her nostrils the scent of the hyacinths, and into her soul it might be some fragments of their uttered thoughts.
Seabrook's apartments to make her promised visit to Dorothy. The child was reclining on a couch and propped up by numerous pillows. She looked pale and worn from recent suffering, although, just then, she was comparatively comfortable. Prof. Seabrook was sitting beside her, reading from an entertaining book, to pass the time during his wife's absence on her round of visits to the sick.
Chester and his friends followed. Quite a congregation had gathered. Two large pillows had been covered with a Union Jack to serve as a pulpit. A ship's officer then read the form prescribed for services on ship-board from the Church of England prayer book. It was all very dry and uninteresting, "Verily a form of godliness" and a lot of "vain repetition," said Elder Malby.
"Where shall we go?" said Chris, and he detected the relief with which she hailed the change of subject. "We will go to Valpré," he said, with quiet decision. "Valpré!" The word leaped out as if of its own volition. Chris suddenly sprang upright from her pillows, and gazed at him wide-eyed.
I found myself too overcome by it even to think, and I laid my head down upon the pillows with a peaceful consciousness that all was well, that all would be well and that in trying to make sure of the intentions of Fate towards me both in life and love, I could not be considered as altogether foolish.
That kind soul is with her at such times, administering to her comforts, smoothing her pillows, etc., and in return she is allowed to read Flammarion, or one of Verne's harmless fictions, in the adjoining sitting-room. On such days Cenni is entirely at liberty, and not watched by anybody, because that sleepy governess the girls have is hardly worth mentioning. Now listen.
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