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The four Carews of the White House had brooded to the full as much as the young folk of the Tile House over the estrangement between their Fathers, though they had never dared to ask their parents any questions about the matter. All the children knew this much, that old Grandpapa had been Doctor Mark Carew of Allonby Edge, and when he died his two sons succeeded to his practice as partners.
Allonby came in and out, speaking little to anyone. He took long walks by himself, and would shut himself up for hours in his den writing, or trying to write, the book that was going to bring him a fortune. Autumn crept on; the days grew short, and dark, and at last Margot ventured to have a talk with her master. 'It will be about the children's schooling, she said hesitatingly.
Evidently, if he had been going to look into the case, Allonby would have been heard from before now. ... And that mocking invitation to supper showed clearly enough how little the story had impressed him! Granice was overcome by the futility of any farther attempt to inculpate himself. He was chained to life a "prisoner of consciousness." Where was it he had read the phrase?
Allonby had arranged to meet them. He was just appearing along the road, and when they were tucked safely in the car again Bobby said: 'Who lives inside the big white gates up that road, father? 'I don't know, my boy. I don't know this part of the country. 'How far are we from home? asked True. 'About twenty miles. The children sighed simultaneously.
"And so," Miss Allonby continued, "Mother, believing me in ignorance, has deputed you to inform me of this most transparent secret? How strange is the blindness of lovers! But I suppose," sighed Miss Allonby, "we are all much alike." "We?" said Mr. Erwyn, softly. "I meant " said Miss Allonby, flushing somewhat. "Yes?" said Mr. Erwyn. His voice sank to a pleading cadence.
Gude day to ye; I wuss ye weel. So saying, he pushed oil in order to land his cargo on the opposite side of the bay; and Brown, with a small bundle in his hand, containing the trifling stock of necessaries which he had been obliged to purchase at Allonby, was left on the rocks beneath the ruin.
"In the presence of your infatuated slave," says my Lord. "Ah, divine Miss Allonby !" But being now aware of her deplorable circumstances, she began to weep, and, in spite of the amorous rhetoric with which his Lordship was prompt to comfort her, rebuked him for unmanly conduct, with sublimity and fire, and depicted the horrors of her present predicament in terms that were both just and elegant.
And since his duty to his journal obviously forbade his wasting time on insoluble mysteries, he ceased to frequent Granice, who dropped back into a deeper isolation. For a day or two after his visit to Allonby he continued to live in dread of Dr. Stell. Why might not Allonby have deceived him as to the alienist's diagnosis?
"Infamous!" she observes; "and is the world run mad, that these extempore weddings should be foisted upon every woman in the Allonby connection!" "Ah, but, my dear," he answered airily, "'twas those two fiascos which begot my notion, and yet hearten me.
So, if you'll pardon me, I will go to my brother." At the sound of her high, crisp speech his frenzy fell from him like a mantle. "And you let me kiss you yesterday! Oh, I know you struggled, but you did not struggle very hard, did you, Anastasia?" "Why, what a notion!" cried Lady Allonby; "as if a person should bother seriously one way or the other about the antics of an amorous clodhopper!
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