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Waul, who had been nodding over her worsted work, and was aroused by the sound of the voice. "No, I was merely thinking aloud; a foolish habit I have contracted since I began to aspire to literary laurels. Go to sleep again, and finish your dream."
Just then a timid tap upon the door of the reception-room was followed almost simultaneously by the entrance of Mrs. Waul, who held a card in her hand. "The waiter has just brought this up. What answer shall he take back?" Mrs. Orme glanced at it, sprang to her feet, and a vivid scarlet bathed her face and neck. "Tell him No! no no! Madame Orme begs to decline the honour."
See that the baggage leaves here only time enough to be put aboard by three o'clock, and I shall not fail to join you there. When General Laurance calls, Mrs. Waul will instruct the servant to hand him the note, with the information that I have gone for a farewell drive around Naples."
Noticing some rare hothouse flowers in a vase upon the table near her bed, Mrs. Waul hastened to explain to the invalid that every other day during her illness, bouquets had been brought to their hotel by the servant of some American gentleman, who was anxious to receive constant tidings of Mrs.
She held it up between thumb and forefinger, shaking out the pink folds till the signature in violet ink flaunted before the violet eyes of its owner, then, crushing it as if it were a cobweb, she tossed it toward the window. Turning her head, she said in an altered and elevated tone: "Mrs. Waul, may I disturb you for a moment?"
She rose, put back her hair, and rapidly glanced over two other letters, then walked to and fro, pondering the contents. "Where is Mr. Waul?" "Reading the papers in our room." "Ask him to come to me at once."
If I were cross-eyed, or had been afflicted with small-pox, or were otherwise disfigured, I should not require Mr. and Mrs. Waul; but Madame Orme, the lonely widow deprived by death of a father's or brother's watchful protection, finds her humble companions a valuable barrier against presumption and insolence.
On the way back to the market-place we pass a decayed arch that was probably a postern in the walls of the town. There can be no doubt whatever of the existence of these walls, for Leland begins his description of the town with the words 'Richemont Towne is waullid, and in another place he says: 'Waullid it was, but the waul is now decayid.
She inclined her head, smiled proudly, and closed her eyes; and, watching her as the carriage rolled away, he wondered if mere fatigue had brought that ghastly pallor to the face he knew he was beginning to love so madly. "Shall we not return to Naples? You look weary, and unhappy," said Mr. Waul, who did not like the expression of the hopeless, fixed blanched lips. "No, no! We go to Avernus.
Plymley was an English physician travelling with an invalid wife and consumptive son, and having been consulted by Mrs. Orme on several occasions in Milan, had at length been prevailed upon by General Laurance to arrange an apparently casual introduction. It was a cloudless spring day, and leaving Mr. and Mrs. Waul to read a package of American papers, Mrs.
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