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And Grace stood silently by the old man's chair, and drank all in without a smile, without a sigh, but not without full many a prayer. It is the blessed Christmas Eve; the light is failing fast; when down the high street comes the mighty Roman-nosed rat-tail which carries Mark's portly bulk, and by him Stangrave, on a right good horse.

Stangrave drew the arm closer through his, and clasped the hand. Marie did not withdraw it. "Wonderful, wonderful love!" she said quite humbly. Her theatric passionateness had passed; "Nothing was left of her, Now, but pure womanly." "That you can love me me, the slave; me, the scourged; the scarred Oh Stangrave! it is not much not much really; only a little mark or two...."

You boast, all of you, of your country, as if you had made it yourselves; and quite forget that God made America, and America has made you." "Made us, sir?" quoth Stangrave fiercely enough. "Made you!" replied Thurnall, exaggerating his half truth from anger.

Bothered about Sidricstone till one. Got away at last with an old fox, and over the downs into the vale. I think Mr. Stangrave liked it?" "Mr. Stangrave likes the vale better than the vale likes him. I have fallen into two brooks following, Claude; to the delight of all the desperate Englishmen." "Oh! You rode straight enough, sir! You must pay for your fun in the vale: but then you have your fun.

Past them Stangrave slips angrily; for that "development of humanity" can find no favour in his eyes; being not human at all, but professedly superhuman, and therefore, practically, sometimes inhuman. He hurries into the public room; seizes on the visitor's book. The names are there, in their own handwriting: but where are they? Waiters are seized and questioned.

Stangrave, who was very uncertain as to how Tom would receive him, had been about to make his amende honorable in a fashion graceful, magnificent, and, as he expressed it afterwards laughingly to Thurnall himself, "altogether highfalutin:" but what chivalrous and courtly words had arranged themselves upon the tip of his tongue, were so utterly upset by Tom's matter-of-fact bonhomie, and by the cool way in which he took for granted the fact of his marriage, that he burst out laughing, and caught both Tom's hands in his.

Stangrave longed to catch hold of the boy, and extract from him all news; but the blackamoor was not quite in respectable company enough at that moment; and Stangrave had to wait till he strutted proudly up to the door, and entered the hall with a bland smile, evidently having taken the hooting as a homage to his personal appearance. "Ah? Mas' Stangrave? glad see you, sir!

So Stangrave went home with Herr Salomon, and heard from him, amid clouds of Latakia, of wars and rumours of wars, distress of nations, and perplexity, seen by the light, not of the Gospel, but of the stock-exchange; while the storm fell without in lightning, hail, rain, of right Rhenish potency. We must go back a week or so, to England, and to the last day of September.

"I think, sir," said he, quietly enough, "that you and I had better walk outside for a few minutes. Allow me to retract the apology I just made, till we have had some very explicit conversation on other matters." "Curse his impudence!" thought Stangrave. "Does he actually mean to bully me into marrying her?" and he replied haughtily enough,

Stangrave has walked upon those hills, and stood upon the crater-lip of the great Moselkopf, and dreamed beside the Laacher See, beneath the ancient abbey walls; and his thoughts flit across the Moselle flats towards his ancient haunts, as he asks himself How long has that old Eifel lain in such soft sleep? How long ere it awake again?