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At this the child's face brightened, and she came and laid her little red lips upon mine. Velvet lips, I feel them now, soft and warm I feel them while I write these lines. Tom looked on for a moment, and then left us, blundering away towards Raxton, most likely to a beer-house. He told the child that she was to go home and mind the house until he returned. He gave her the church key to take home.
It was Wynne who had taught me swimming. It was really he, and not my groom, who had taught me how to ride a horse along the low-tide sands so as not to distress him or damage his feet. It was about this time that my uncle Aylwin of Alvanley, my mother's brother, who had quarrelled with her, became reconciled to her, and came to Raxton.
Here's your wretched ten shillings, for which you'd sell all the corpses in Raxton churchyard. And I gave him half-a-sovereign, feeling, somehow, that I was doing honour to Winifred. 'Thankee for the money, Mister Hal, anyhow, said the old creature. 'You was allus a liberal 'un, you was.
'I must go and see Fenella's portrait, I said, as I Walked briskly towards Raxton. When I reached Raxton Hall I seemed to startle the butler and the servants, as though I had come from the other world. I told the butler that I should sleep there that night, and then went at once to the picture gallery and stood before Reynolds' famous picture of Fenella Stanley as the Sibyl.
'He knows that ever since I was a boy in jackets I have despised the man who, in a world where all is so comic, could select any particular point of the farce for his empty guffaw. But I am conquered at last. Let me introduce you, Wilderspin, to my kinsman, Henry Aylwin of Raxton Hall, alias Lord Henry Lovell of Little Egypt one of Duke Panuel's interesting twinses.
'I thought over the matter for a minute, and then I said to him, "Sinfi Lovell knows Raxton as well as Snowdon, and must have been very familiar with the crime.
Mivart came he was much startled at recognising in Miss Wynne his former patient of Raxton, whom he had attended on her first seizure. He said that it would now be of no use for me to write to you, as it was matter of common knowledge that you had gone to Japan. If it had not been for this I should have written to you at once.
It was, I found, possible to gaze in that water till it seemed alive with her seemed to hold the reflection of the little face which years ago peered anxiously into it for the behoof of the crippled child-lover pining for her at Raxton, and unable to 'get up or down the gangways without her.
She with more difficulty persuaded me to consult a medical man upon the subject of my insomnia; and at last I agreed, though very reluctantly, to consult Dr. Mivart, late of Raxton, who was now living in London. I therefore opened my mind to him upon the subject. I told him everything in connection with Winifred in Wales.
'When did his own father give him, said he, 'the longest thigh-bone that the sea ever washed out of Raxton churchyard? 'Why, I gave you two of my five-shilling pieces for that, said I, 'and next day you went and borrowed the bone, and sold it over again to Dr. Munro for a quart of beer.
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