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And perhaps he does. You know best, though, Dr. Medlicott, and you shall settle it." "That is a wise nurse," said he, kindly; "I wish I could take your place myself, but I must be with the little fellow myself; and I am afraid we can only leave his brother to your nephew for this one night. Should you be afraid to be sole nurse?" he added, as Johnny came to Armine's door.
"By endeavouring to do your best for God with what is left you?" "I hope so, but with my health there seems nothing left for me but unmurmuring resignation." Mr. Ogilvie was amused at Armine's notion of unmurmuring resignation, but he added only, "Which would be much assisted by a little exertion." "I did exert myself at home, but it is all aimless now."
"I'm not very far away, but " "Then I don't think we need bother you to stay. We've got Doctor Hartley." "I I'm afraid I shall have to leave you to-morrow," said the young man, who had several times looked, almost with a sort of horror, at Mrs. Armine's ravaged face. "You see I'm with people at Assouan. I really came out to Egypt in a sort of way in attendance upon Mrs.
Alas! why are people so one-sided and absorbed in their own concerns as never to guess what stumbling-blocks they raise in other people's paths, nor how they make their good be evil spoken of? Babie confided her feelings to Jock when he escorted her to Church in the evening, and had detected a melancholy sound in her voice which made him ask if she thought Armine's attack of the worst sort.
No, this is some one not specially interesting, but not bad; only Baroudi." Mrs. Armine's hands dropped from the arms of the chair, as she turned towards the glass. "Baroudi!" she said, as if the name meant nothing to her. "Why do you string one up for nothing, Nigel?" She took up a powder-puff. "Do you mean the man on the Hohenzollern? What has he to do with us?"
Armine's term likewise ended, and his examination being over with much credit, he wished for nothing better than to resume the pursuits he had long shared with Fordham. He had not Jock's facility in forming intimacies with youths of his own age.
'You cannot; you must not; you ought not! Kind, generous Digby! Pardon what I have said; forget it; but indeed I am so wretched, I can bear this life no longer. 'But you shall not be wretched, Henrietta; you shall be happy; everybody shall be happy. I am Armine's friend, I am indeed. I will prove it. On my honour, I will prove that I am his best friend. 'You must not.
What a rapturous soul was Ferdinand Armine's as he sat that night on the old bench, on Ducie Terrace, shrouding from the rising breeze the trembling form of Henrietta Temple! And yet it was not cold that made her shiver. The clock of Ducie Church struck ten. She moved, saying, in a faint voice, 'We must go home, my Ferdinand! In Which Captain Armine Proves Himself a Complete Tactician.
Petronella herself had been much vexed at Armine's three days' defection, which was ascribed to the worldly and anti-ecclesiastical influences of the rest of the family. She wanted her brother to preach a sermon about Lot's wife; but Jemmie, as she called him, had on certain occasions a passive force of his own, and she could not prevail.
Chepstow's table, he did not tell him that first impression had been already formed in the consulting-room of the house in Cleveland Square. "Mrs. Chepstow!" At the sound of Nigel Armine's voice Mrs. Chepstow started slightly, like a person recalled abruptly from a reverie, looked up, and smiled. "You are here! I'm all alone. But I was hungry, so I had to brave the rabble."
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