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Licorice had been absent from home, for several weeks, and when she returned, Anegay was with her, and four men were also in her company. Anegay had been very ill: very, very ill indeed, said the child. But after long hesitation she was better now. `What about the baby? asked Isabel. Rosia looked surprised. She had heard of none, except Licorice's own thee, Belasez. Had she spoken with Anegay?
The only resource was to take Anegay away from Lincoln, where she would learn to forget all about the creeping creatures, and return to her duty as a servant of the Living and Eternal One. It was at that time that I and thy father were wedded; and we then came to live in Norwich, bringing Anegay with us." Licorice paused, as if her tale were finished.
I could think of no place to which my wife would be likely to go, unless her mother had been there, and had either forced or over-persuaded her to return with her. I hurried to Norwich with as much speed as possible. To my surprise, Licorice received me with apparent kindliness, and inquired after Anegay as though no quarrel had ever existed."
Why, she had been crying behind her veil, quietly, all the journey." "Well, wife? What then?" "`What then? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! `What then? Why, then she will do like Anegay." "The God of our fathers forbid it!" cried Abraham, in tones of horror and distress. "It is too late for that," said Licorice, with a short, contemptuous laugh.
I saw that Licorice instantly read in my face that I had heard the truth: and she tried to brazen it out no longer. Yes, it was true, she said in answer to my passionate charges: Anegay was dead. I should see her if I would, to convince me.
She was about twelve years of age, and was manifestly loving and desirous to oblige Isabel, who had, as I heard afterwards, shown her great kindness. She said she knew Abraham thy father well, and Licorice and Anegay. `Had Anegay been there of late? Isabel asked her. `Certainly, answered Rosia. `Was she there now? The child hesitated. But the truth came out when Isabel pressed her.
The conversation ceased rather suddenly, except for one mournful exclamation from Abraham, "Poor Anegay!" Anegay! where had Belasez heard that name before? It belonged to no friend or relative, so far as she knew. Yet that she had heard it before, and that in interesting connection with something, she was absolutely certain. Belasez dropped asleep while she was thinking.
Indeed, there was no reason to hide it from thee further than this, that the tale being a painful one, thy father and I have not cared to talk about it. This Anegay was the sister of Abraham thy father, and therefore thine aunt." Belasez, who had been imagining that Anegay might have been her father's sister, at once mentally decided that she was not.
Anegay was not her sister, and probably not her aunt. That she had loved Bruno was sure to be true; and that she had been forcibly separated from him was only too likely. But her subsequent marriage to Aaron, and the very existence of Beatrice, were in Belasez's eyes purely fictitious details, introduced to make the events dovetail nicely.
It gradually dawned upon her that Licorice was going to "get it out of her," and was likewise about to devise a false tale for her especial benefit. She had not heard two sentences which passed between her parents before she woke, or she might have been still more on her guard. "Licorice, thou must take care what thou sayest to that child. I told her that Anegay was not her sister."
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