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You know that he is to be married to Henrietta next month. 'Holy Virgin! muttered Glastonbury; and, seizing advantage of the confusion, he effected his escape. In Which Mr. Glastonbury Informs Captain Armine of His Meeting with Miss Temple. IT WAS still an early hour when Mr. Glastonbury arrived at his hotel. He understood, however, that Captain Armine had already returned and retired.
To Armine, it was as if Fordham had given him back the sister of his childhood to be as thoroughly one in aims and sympathies as ever, but with a certain clearness of eye, brisk alacrity of execution, and quickness of judgment that made her a valuable assistant, the complement, as it were, of his more contemplative nature.
She clung very much to Barbara in the ensuing days. The presence of every one seemed to oppress her except that of her own children, and the two youngest Brownlows, for had not Armine been the depository of all Fordham's last messages?
"You mean that I am wanting in delicacy in thrusting myself into your mutual grief?" He spoke very simply, very quietly, but there was a note in his voice of inflexible determination. "I don't wish to say that," she answered. And her voice was harder than his. "But I'm afraid you think it. I'll be frank with you, Mrs. Armine. Here is my friend, ill, isolated from medical help "
'Ferdinand, said Lady Armine, with an air of affected gaiety, 'we have just been settling that you are to send me a gazelle from Malta. And in this strain, speaking of slight things, yet all in some degree touching upon the mournful incident of the morrow, did Lady Armine for some time converse, as if she were all this time trying the fortitude of her mind, and accustoming herself to a catastrophe which she was resolved to meet with fortitude.
It's a blood-vessel. We have sent for Medlicott, and telegraphed for the others. But oh! they are so far off!" Mrs. Brownlow gave Barbara one kiss, and put her into Jock's arms, then sprang into the cab, followed by John, and was driven off. The other three walked in the same direction, almost unconsciously, as Armine explained more fully.
All that day and the next the sons wondered what was amiss with their mother, she was so pensive, with starts of flightiness. Allen thought she was going to have an illness, and Bobus that it was a very strange and foolish way of taking his resistance, but all the time Armine was going about quite unperceiving, in a blissful state.
Jock, the foremost, stared straight up in his aunt's face, Armine ran to his mother with- "Did you see the old king, mother, and his little page? Wasn't it funny " But he was stopped by the sight of his uncle, who laid hold of his eldest son with a fierce "How dare you, sir?" and gave him a shake and blow.
He shook his head, which drooped on his long and gentle brown neck, sighed, and repeated dreamily: "She wants to be all alone." "We'll leave her alone for a little and go and look at the gold." Meanwhile within the house Mrs. Armine was calling impatiently for her maid. "For mercy's sake, undress me. I am a mass of dust, and looking perfectly dreadful.
"Mother we have done such a thing- we came to tell you of it." "We've lost the man's boat," added Armine, "and we must give him the money for another." "What is it? What is it, Caroline?" began her sister-in-law; but Mrs.
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