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And for some little time he stood looking at the door as it closed after her. And on Colonel Ashley's face there was a peculiar look. LeGrand Blossom came to The Haven bearing a bundle of books and papers, and with rather a wry face for he had no heart for business of this nature. Miss Mary Carwell sat down at the table with him and Viola.
"We need not talk about it, mother, dear. You will be all in all to me now." He sat down beside her, and took her hand in his, then kissed it with a mingling of tenderness and respect which brought the tears to Lady Ashley's eyes. "But I do not want to be all in all to you, you foolish boy," she assured him.
Wyvis was leading her into the room with the fixed look of adoration in his eyes which had been so much commented upon at Lady Ashley's party. When she was present, he evidently saw none but her. Janetta rose quickly and withdrew a little into the back ground. She wished for a moment that she had not been there and then it occurred to her that she might be useful by and by.
If I hadn't involved myself so much and involved some one else with me my duty would have been clearer from the start. But Colonel Ashley's been so noble! he's understood me so well! he's helped me so much to understand myself! that I can't help honoring him, honoring him with my whole heart, even if I see now that I don't that I never did care for him in the way "
"But if the County could be induced to take him up!" said Margaret, rather breathlessly. "He was at Lady Ashley's the other day, and he seemed to know a great many people. And if you we received him, it would make all the difference in the world." "Oh, no doubt we could float him if we chose," said Lady Caroline, indifferently; "but would it really be worth the trouble?
"Oh, I say, Riddell," began Telson, "we've just come from the Parliament. No end of a row. Last time was nothing to it!" "What happened?" asked the captain. "Why, you know," said Parson, "it was Game and Ashley's affair summoning this meeting.
Much recent work has been done by French scholars towards the reconstruction of the external history of England during the whole of our period. For the Low Countries, PIRENNE'S Hist. de Belgique, ii., ASHLEY'S James and Philip van Artevelde, and VANDER KINDERE'S Le Siècle des Arteveldt. PAULI is good for the relations of England and Germany.
He had been strongly opposed to Ashley's appointment to administer the prize- money, and he could not but know that the investigation would ruin Ashley's reputation.
"The excitement kept him up at first. Now that that's over " Ashley interrupted her, addressing himself to Davenant. "I understand that it's to you we owe Mr. Guion's relief from the most pressing part of his cares." Davenant's face clouded. It was the thing he was afraid of Ashley's intrusion into the little domain of helpfulness which for a few days he had made his own.
If he was to go on serving her with the disinterestedness of which, to himself at any rate, he had made a boast, if he was to keep the kindly feeling she had perhaps begun to entertain for him, he must resign his provisional authority into Ashley's hands and efface himself. To do that would be easy.
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