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Of all the four, Adderley alone looked back with a half-appealing smile, and received an encouraging little nod for his pains a nod which said 'Yes you can come again if you like! The wheels of the Pippitt equipage crunched heavily down the drive, and as the grating sound died away, clear on the quiet air came the soft slow chime of the church-bells ringing.
He had in 1849, as Sir C. Adderley expresses it, 'maintained the principle of responsible Government at the risk of his life. Was the result of his hard-won victory only to empty himself of all but the mere outward show of power and authority? Such questions he was always ready to meet with an uncompromising negative. 'I have tried, he said, both systems.
Had he not secured a peaceful home, a round of work that he loved, and happiness far beyond his merits, and had not God blessed him with health and a quiet mind? Yes till quite lately he had had a quiet mind but now "You perhaps do not realise how much the gain is, or how far it extends," pursued Adderley, thoughtfully "Youth and age appear to me to have perfectly equal delights and drawbacks.
"You shall hear stranger things yet," answered Adderley. "John York could hardly believe it at first, for the thought of such a thing never had place in his mind. Besides, the Prince knew how he had looked upon the lady, and he could not have thought his comrade would come in between him and his happiness.
Thus armed with authority, he returned to the Croix de Lorraine, where Mr. Adderley could not contain his joy at the change to quarters not only so much more congenial, buts so much safer; and the Chevalier, after some polite demur, consented to remain in possession of the rooms, being in fact well satisfied with the arrangement.
"'So you have made up your mind to dance after all? he shouted. "The look in the girl's dark eyes was pitiful, and she turned to me with a glance of dumb entreaty. "'No, no! she cried. 'No, no! Why do you bring me here? "'Dance! roared Adderley. 'Dance! That's what I want you to do.
And so I saw the chastened glory of her face no more, nor evermore beheld her perfectness." Adderley paused once more, and, after refilling his pipe in silence, continued: "That was the heart of the thing.
Adderley continued: "John York was an honest man, of wholesome sport, jovial, and never shirking with the wine, commendable in his appetite, of rollicking soul and proud temper, and a gay dog altogether gay, but to be trusted, too, for he had a royal heart.
Then sounding a little whistle, the Ambassador despatched a page to request the attendance of Mr. Adderley, and recommended young Ribaumont in the meantime to compose himself.
"I did go to the village," said Cicely "and I went into the church, and played the organ, and helped the children sing a hymn. And I met the parson, Mr. Walden, and had a talk with him. Then I started home across the fields, and found this man" and she indicated Adderley with a careless nod of her head "asleep in a wood. I almost promised him some lunch I didn't QUITE "
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