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Sir Everard had never been himself a student, and, like his sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, he held the common doctrine, that idleness is incompatible with reading of any kind, and that the mere tracing the alphabetical characters with the eye is in itself a useful and meritorious task, without scrupulously considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to convey.
When they reached Burgos they sent for Rachel and for Vidas, and demanded from them the chests, and paid unto them the three hundred marks of gold and the three hundred of silver as the Cid had commanded, and they besought them to forgive the Cid the deceit of the chests, for it was done because of his great necessity.
He had reached the entrance, when it seemed that a suppressed sound smote on his ears, and he stopped. Deborah, her face grown stern and hard, had moved a step or two forward and stood regarding Rachel sharply. Neither saw her. "Did you speak, Rachel?" Kenkenes asked. He fancied that her arms had fallen quickly as he turned.
"I never could understand how Cinderella enjoyed the ball." "For thinking of the clock?" laughed Sir Luke. "No, no! you can't mean that. It's the expectation of the clock that doubles the pleasure. Of course you agree, Rachel!" he turned to her "else why did you read me that very doleful poem yesterday, on this very theme? that it's only the certainty of death that makes life agreeable?
"Was there no warning conveyed in these strange combinations, Dame?" asked Johnstone eagerly. "I deal not in warnings," said Rachel hastily. "Did I deal in warnings, the reading of the cards might prove useful to you both." "Come, come!" he said, "you speak in riddles. The warning. Is it the same for this gentle lady as for my rough self?" "Aye, aye, for both both."
"My dear Rachel!" interrupted Mrs. Garman. Rachel's eccentricities really exceeded all bounds. "Is that your opinion?" repeated Rachel, with the severity of a judge condemning a criminal. Johnsen raised his head nervously and looked at her. "Allow me to explain, Miss Garman," he began.
This done, the heroic girl prepared to pass whatever of life remained to her in pious conversation with Sister Mary, and advice and comfort to poor old Rachel, the negro woman, who hung over her, constantly weeping.
Oh how beautifully he speaks of him," and Rachel, with no voice to read, handed the thin paper to her companion, that he might see the full commendation, that had been wrung from the reserved father's heart by his son's extremity.
I might have seen Rachel. I recollect the evening, and I believe I was offered a ticket. It was not worth while to walk a couple of hundred yards to enrich myself for ever! I knew intimate friends of Caroline Fox, but I made no effort to become acquainted with her.
Thus for another half hour the argument raged till at length a compromise was arrived at, as usual in such cases, not of too satisfactory an order. Rachel was to be allowed to undertake her mission on behalf of Noie, and her parents were to remain at Ramah.
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