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"What do you mean by seeing your way?" said the downright nurse. "Tell me when Carmina will be well again." Mr. Null's medical knowledge was not yet equal to this demand on it. "The progress is slow," he admitted, "still Miss Carmina is getting on." "Is her aunt getting on?" Teresa asked abruptly. "When is Mistress Gallilee likely to come here?" "In a few days " Mr.
The two women were comfortably seated together, with the cherry brandy and a plate of biscuits on a table between them. "In for a good long gossip," thought Mr. Le Frank. "Now is my time!" Not five minutes more had passed, before Teresa made an excuse for running upstairs again. She had forgotten to leave the bell rope, in case Carmina woke, within the reach of her hand.
Before Carmina had recovered her senses she was provided with a second mother, who played the part to perfection. The four persons, now assembled in the pretty sitting-room upstairs, were in a position of insupportable embarrassment towards each other.
For betwixt my father and my mother I became from my earliest years a subject of contentions that drove them far asunder and set them almost in enmity the one against the other. I was his only son, heir to the noble lordships of Mondolfo and Carmina.
As for Carmina, her conduct complicated the mystery. What was she doing at a concert, when she ought to have been on her way to her aunt's house? Why, if she must faint when the hot room had not overpowered anyone else, had she failed to recover in the usual way?
The plan of going to a concert being thus abandoned, the idea occurred to them of seeing pictures. Teresa, in search of information, tried her luck at a great table in the middle of the room, on which useful books were liberally displayed. Carmina opened the catalogue at the first page, and discovered a list of Royal Academicians. Were all these gentlemen celebrated painters?
"Come and look out of window," she said. Carmina gently refused: she was unwilling to be disturbed. Since she had spoken to Benjulia, her thoughts had been dwelling restfully on Ovid. In another day she might be on her way to him. When would Teresa come? Benjulia was too preoccupied to notice her. The weak doubt that had got the better of his strong reason, still held him in thrall.
"Quid? cum est Lucilius auses Primus in hunc operis componere carmina morem" he is only thus to be understood that Lucilius had given a more graceful turn to the satire of Ennius and Pacuvius, not that he invented a new satire of his own; and Quintilian seems to explain this passage of Horace in these words: Satira quidem tota nostra est; in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est Luciluis.
She kissed her hand to Carmina, and, beckoning to her son, advanced towards the door. Teresa looked at her, and suddenly looked away again. Mrs. Gallilee stopped on her way out, at a chiffonier, and altered the arrangement of some of the china on it.
"Have you really forgotten what I told you, only yesterday? The Will appoints me Carmina's guardian." He had plainly forgotten it he started, when his mother recalled the circumstance. "Curious," he said to himself, "that I was not reminded of it, when I saw Carmina's rooms prepared for her." His mother, anxiously looking at him, observed that his face brightened when he spoke of Carmina.
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