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First, I loved the magnanimous, self-sacrificing man who, at the age of twenty-one years, with a brilliant future before him, could renounce all his prospects to give peace to his father's latter years. I loved you then, Lord Arondelle, before I knew what manner of man you looked!" "How blessed, how surely blessed I am in hearing you," he breathed, in a low and reverent tone.
She might shut out all the visible creation, but she could not exclude the haunting images that filled her mind. She could not banish the forms and faces that floated before her inner vision the most venerable face of her dear, lost father, the noble face of her once beloved ah! still too well beloved Arondelle!
The landlord waited on him. The honest host of the Arondelle Arms was "dying," so to speak, for a confidential conversation with his noble guest.
When such prognostics were uttered, she crested her queenly head with a smile of conscious power, and looked as though "she could, an if she would," tell more about the Marquis of Arondelle, than any of these people guessed. Meanwhile, princely Lone passed into the possession of Sir Lemuel Levison, a London banker of enormous wealth. He had not always been Sir Lemuel Levison.
"You live, sir, at twenty times the rate, your debts are twenty times as large, you cost me twenty times as much as does Lord Arondelle, my own son and heir!" concluded the duke, in a final burst of anger.
The streets of the village were very quiet, for the reason that on this night the men were all collected at the Arondelle Arms, discussing the events of the day; and at this hour the women were all sure to be in their houses, putting their children to bed, setting bread to rise, or "garring th' auld claithes luke amaist as guid as the new." The hamlet was very still under the starlit sky.
We must loosen her dress, and take other measures for her recovery." "Yes, yes! Great Heaven! yes! Do all you can for her! This is maddening!" groaned the marquis, smiting his forehead as he left the bedside, yielding his place to the dowager. "Do try to command yourself, Lord Arondelle. This is, indeed, a most awful shock.
Lord Arondelle, in his wedding dress, stood by the central book-table. As his costume was the regulation uniform of a gentleman's full dress, it needs no description here. Gentlemen array themselves much in the same style for a dinner or a ball, a wedding or a funeral the only difference to mark the occasion being in the color of the gloves. Lord Arondelle advanced to meet his bride.
This testimony not only vindicated the accused woman from the charge of perjury, but opened her eyes to the facts of the case namely, that I had never abandoned her to suffer in my stead while I went off to marry another woman, as she had supposed that my only sin against her was in having allowed her to deceive herself in believing me to be Lord Arondelle."
Arondelle does not come up here. Whatever are you thinking of, my man?" The host said he was mistaken, that was all, and so got himself out of his dilemma the best way he could, and took the first opportunity to warn all his dependents and followers that they were not to "blow" on the young marquis.
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