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He might know of something some opening for a young surgeon in India, or some temporary appointment for the voyage out and home, which might catch Ascott's erratic and easily attracted fancy: give him occupation for the time being, and at least detach him from his present life, with all its temptations and dangers.
"Because I want him to see the papers. He may not have been in the theatre; on Thursday night is Lady Ascott's ball; then on Friday I'll go and see father on Friday. I'll try to summon courage. But there is a rehearsal of 'Tannhäuser' on Friday."
Ascott's gifts in which, to do him justice, he was both thoughtful and liberal or they must have staid away from the wedding altogether, which they did not like to do "for the sake of the family."
Shop shuts at nine, and I get up at 5 A. M. bless us! what would my Aunt Hilary say? And it's not for nothing. There are more ways than one of turning an honest penny, when a young fellow really sets about it. He slapped his chest with Ascott's merry laugh of old. It cheered Elizabeth for a long while afterward.
Ascott's suggestion which really is my own idea I have decided not to build all those Rhine castles, which useless notion, if I am not mistaken, originated with you. I don't want to disfigure my beautiful wilderness. Mrs. Ascott and I had a very plain talk with Hamil and we forced him to agree with us that the less he did to improve my place the better for the place.
Are you against me too?" in a voice vibrating with reproach and self-pity. "Now, look here, William Van Beuren; your guests did shoot woodcock on Mrs. Ascott's land " "They're migratory birds, confound it!" " And," continued Malcourt, paying no attention to the interruption, "you did build that fool dam regardless of my advice; and you first left her cattle waterless, then drowned her sheep "
And yet with that instinct which comes to almost every human soul, fast departing, Mrs. Ascott's white lips whispered, "Pray." Elizabeth had no words, except those which Miss Leaf used to say night after night in the little parlor at Stowbury. She knelt down, and in a trembling voice repeated in her mistress's ear "Our Father which art in heaven" to the end. After it Mrs. Ascott lay very quiet.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth did not go to her bed, but sat behind the curtain, motionless, for an hour or more. Toward the middle of the night, when her baby was brought to her, and the child instinctively refused its natural food, and began screaming violently, Mrs. Ascott's troubled look returned. "What is the matter? What are you doing, nurse? I won't be parted from my baby I won't, I say!"
She would not have Miss Hilary sent for, nor Miss Selina, who was away paying a ceremonious prenuptial visit to Mr. Ascott's partner's wife at Dulwich. "I don't want any thing that you can not do for me. You are becoming a first rate nurse.
The aunt and nephew spent some time in going over that handful of papers, and approximating to the sum total, in that kind of awful arithmetic when figures cease to be mere figures, but grow into avenging monsters, bearing with them life or death. "Is that all! You are quite sure it is all?" said Hilary at last, pointing to the whole amount, and looking steadily into Ascott's eyes.
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