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The sound of the record came to them clearly over the water the Barcarolle from "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," and they listened until it died faintly away in the distance. Then at last, with a great sigh Vane stood up and stretched himself. For a long while he looked down at the girl, and it seemed to her that his face was sad.
It's not Saxon, nor Norse, nor Danish; I'd sooner call it Roman." Vane was slightly astonished. He had seen that look in Evelyn's face, and now, for the first time, he recognized it in his sister's. "Perhaps you have hit it," he said with a laugh. "You can reach the Wall from here in a day's ride." "The Wall?" "The Roman Wall; Hadrian's Wall.
She understood it now. And yet she hesitated to give him an answer that was hypocritical. "I have known you all my life, Mr. Vane, and you are a very old friend of my father's." "Old," he repeated, "yes, that's it. I'm ready for the scrap-heap better have let me lie, Victoria." Victoria started. A new surmise had occurred to her upon which she did not like to dwell. "You have worked too hard, Mr.
He shuddered, and felt afraid, and, going back to the couch, lay there, gazing at the picture in sickened horror. One thing, however, he felt that it had done for him. It had made him conscious how unjust, how cruel, he had been to Sibyl Vane. It was not too late to make reparation for that. She could still be his wife.
"I'm going up the west coast shortly and may be away some time." They left the smoking-room shortly afterward, and when they strolled back to the others, Vane sat down near Jessy. "I hear you are going away," she began. "Yes. I'm going to look for pulping timber." "But what do you want with pulping timber?" "It can sometimes be converted into money."
So after nine months of office Harry Vane saw that where he had meant to create fair order his hand created only disorder. And utterly disheartened he begged the Council to relieve him of the governorship and allow him to go home to England.
Vane might be kept secret as nothing could absolutely be proved respecting Flossy's sinister designs on Enid's life or health the confession that Mrs. Meldreth had made to Enid in her last moments should be made known. Enid was however still reluctant; and Miss Vane was brought in chiefly to give her advice, and thus to settle the question.
"Supposing," he said slowly, "the work in front of me is back to Flanders again, as it probably will be. And supposing I'm not so lucky next time. What then?" She turned and faced him. "Why then, dear, Fate will have decided for us, won't she?" "A deuced unsatisfactory decision," grumbled Vane.
She wants to be whirled up breathlessly and carried away, and made to do things; and it doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong not if she's in love. Maybe you were right, Derek, to go away; but oh! my dear, I would to God you hadn't." A nurse came in with a cup of bovril, and put it on the table by his bed, and Vane turned to her abruptly. "Where are my clothes, Nurse?"
Well, then, in Isaura's invented hero, though she saw the archetypal form of Graham Vane, saw him as in her young, vague, romantic dreams idealized, beautified, transfigured, he would have been the vainest of men if he had seen therein the reflection of himself.
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