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Sarah Bond had never forgotten the emotion of Mabel, caused by the mention of the curate's name when they quitted their old neighbourhood, and the very reserve Mabel showed proved to Sarah's searching and clear judgment, that the feeling was unchanged. Truly in that hour was her chastened heart joyful and grateful.
He might have proposed, as for Sarah Pocock, the cold hospitality of his own salon de lecture, in which the chill of Sarah's visit seemed still to abide and shades of pleasure were dim; he might have suggested a stone bench in the dusty Tuileries or a penny chair at the back part of the Champs Elysees. These things would have been a trifle stern, and sternness alone now wouldn't be sinister.
My whole family hath been well all this while, and all my friends I know of, saving my aunt Bell, who is dead, and some children of my cozen Sarah's, of the plague. But many of such as I know very well, dead; yet, to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to be open again.
The eldest, Sarah's junior by a year and a half, had just left Oxford suddenly and ignominiously, without a degree, and was for the most part loafing at home. The youngest, a boy of fifteen, was supposed to be delicate, and had been removed from school by his mother on that account. He too was at home, and a tutor who lodged in the village was understood to be preparing him for the Civil Service.
There was a new landlord, and I saw no familiar faces about the house; all was new and strange to me. I made inquiries, and soon found out that Sarah's boy went to a school in town not far from the hotel, and I went there to "prospect," leaving Henry at the public house. It was noon now, and fifty or more boys were trooping out of school. I carefully scanned the throng.
The young man relapsed into a seat by Sarah's side and swung an immaculately trousered leg. "But look here, Maurice, my boy, why should they leave off buying, eh?" he enquired. "Because," the other explained, "there is a little more wheat in the world than the B. & I. have money for." "I can give you a further reason," Kendrick intervened, "for leaving B. & I.'s severely alone.
"Yes that's all very well," said Sarah to herself, as the slight form hurried from the drawing-room into the dark oak hall beyond. "But why is she unhappy? There is something else." It was Dr. Blundell who found the answer to Sarah's riddle.
Moreover, it seems to me that that Phoenician must be cold, and her fondlings are studied." But from that time the prince ceased to be angry at Dagon, all the more since on a day when he was at Sarah's earth-tillers came to him, and thanking him for protection declared that the Phoenician forced them to pay new rents no longer.
"Because Sarah's got a nasty fit on this mornin'. Don't tell her I told you; but she said I looked fit to be laughed at, and that there'd be no fighting for me: Indians would all run away." "Oh, never mind what she says," I cried. "I wish I was big enough for a soldier." "Wait a bit, boy, you'll grow," he said, as he busily tightened a well-whitened belt.
Sarah had overcome the last hesitation which Daniel still felt. Now he was in the right temper to meet cunning with cunning. He answered in an admirably-feigned tone of indifference, "Ah!" Then, encouraged by the joyous surprise he read in Sarah's face, he went on, "This expedition has cost me dear. Count Ville-Handry has just informed me that he has lost his whole fortune.
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