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What a story to tell Ann and his father! and Will felt as they drove through the lodge gates that the charm of the situation outweighed the twinges of pain in his arm. Gwenda Vaughan, recovering a little, smiled at him gratefully. "Thank you so much for holding up my foot," she said. "It is easier so. I am sorry you have hurt your wrist. Does it pain you much?"
But I am thinking they are settled in their skeps for the night; sae I wuss your honour good-night, and grace, and muckle o't." So saying, Andrew retreated, but often cast a parting glance upon the skeps, as he called the bee-hives. I had indirectly gained from him an important piece of information, that Father Vaughan, namely, was not supposed to be at the Hall.
'A man like that's bound to be a criminal of sorts in his spare time. It's action and reaction, said Vaughan. Mr Ward happening to pass at this moment, the speaker went on to ask Dallas audibly if life was worth living, and Dallas replied that under certain conditions and in some Houses it was not. Dallas and Vaughan did not like Mr Ward. Mr Ward was not the sort of man who inspires affection.
That, I suppose, taken with this pistol affair but tell me, doctor, what she will need, so that I may attend to it immediately." "If she is living at noon," said Dr. Vaughan, reflectively, "it will be out of the question to remove her from here, without risking her life for weeks to come.
I struck a match to assure myself that it was empty, and then sat down to wait. Once or twice I fancied I heard some one moving outside, but it was only the wind among the trees, I guess, for it was fully half an hour before Miss Vaughan came." I could see how his hand was trembling on the arm of his chair, and he paused a moment to collect himself.
The President finally reserved decision until two o'clock and asked me to call and get it. He handed me your pass with this remark: "It's probably a bad business for us, but it would alienate many of our Northern friends if we should hold on to these gentlemen." In two hours the visitors had reached the Union lines, John Vaughan had obtained his passes and was on his way to Atlanta.
I ought not to have forgot you last night! And breakfast? You haven't had breakfast, have you?" "No. Are you the the " Anne drew her brows together, in an earnest search for a forgotten word. "I'm the stewardess, miss." "Oh, yes! the stewardess. Uncle said you'd take care of me. Where is he? I want Uncle Carey." "Have you seen him this morning, miss?" asked Vaughan. "No. Not since a long time ago.
By six o'clock Sir John could be on his way to Birmingham for troops; fifteen miles to drive say an hour and a half. Another hour for the soldiers to start, and three hours to do the nineteen miles to the Vaughan, half-past eleven perhaps half an hour earlier, perhaps half an hour later. There was no fear but there was plenty of water.
At this time also Oliver Cromwell is said to have been an accepted Mason, and it was by his intervention that, a year later, Thomas Vaughan was substituted for the headsman at the execution of Archbishop Laud, for the object already described. It was after his compact with Lucifer that the alchemist wrote the "Open Entrance."
Godfrey was soon sufficiently occupied in guiding the car through the tangle of traffic. Miss Vaughan leaned back in a corner of the tonneau lost in thought. It was just six days since I had seen her first; but those six days had left their mark upon her. Perhaps, in time, happiness would banish that shadow from her eyes, and that tremulousness from her lips.
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