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Thirty feet below the ground level there is said to have been a hiding-place a large cavity cut in the solid rock. Many years ago a skeleton of a man was found at the bottom. Such dramatic material should suggest to some sensational novelist a tragic story, as the well and lime-walk at Ingatestone is said to have suggested Lady Audley's Secret.
And he then told her, though with reserve, some portion of his former history; and that soothed her; for when she saw that he had loved, and could grieve, she caught a glimpse of the human heart she had not seen before. She died, forgiving him, and blessing. Audley's spirits were much affected by this new loss. He inly resolved never to marry again.
The third paragraph was dated September, 1853, and was in the hand of Helen Maldon, who gave the annual to George Talboys; and it was at the sight of this third paragraph that Mr. Robert Audley's face changed from its natural hue to a sickly, leaden pallor. "I thought it would be so," said the young man, shutting the book with a weary sigh.
And so great a horror came over her, that, regardless of her toilette, and the hair that had fallen over the jacket on her shoulders, she dropped at once among them as they were bearing the senseless form into Mr. Audley's bed-room, with a low but piteous cry, 'Felix! Felix! oh, what has happened? 'It is not Felix, my dear, said Mr. Audley; 'he is safe he is gone for the doctor.
Good heavens! do they know of your marriage?" "No; to Harley I must own it first. Meanwhile, silence!" "Silence!" echoed Lady Lansmere; and her burning hand rested in Audley's, and Audley's hand was as ice. In another hour Egerton had left the house, and before noon he was with Harley. It is necessary now to explain the absence of all the Avenel family, except the poor stricken father.
The cab stopped in the midst of Robert Audley's meditation, and he had to pay the cabman, and submit to all the dreary mechanism of life, which is the same whether we are glad or sorry whether we are to be married or hung, elevated to the woolsack, or disbarred by our brother benchers on some mysterious technical tangle of wrong-doing, which is a social enigma to those outside the forum domesticum of the Middle Temple.
He declared that he was acting upon Mr. Audley's own orders, conveyed to him by a letter from the country, where the gentleman was spending his Christmas. Mrs. Maloney, believing in the truth of this statement, had admitted the man to the chambers, where he stayed about half an hour. "But you were with him while he examined the locks, I suppose?" Mr. Audley asked.
I can still feel that she lives lives here, in my heart while I dream that she loved me or, at least, that no other lip ever knew the kiss that was denied to mine! But if you tell me to doubt that you you " The boy's anguish was too great for his frame; he fell suddenly back into Audley's arms; he had broken a blood- vessel.
I'll kiss you again now." And he did it quite without embarrassment. It was a sort of manly gratuity. Once Anne, with her book in her hand, came round the shrubs to see how her charge was employing herself, and seeing her looking at pictures with a handsomely dressed companion, she returned to "Lady Audley's Secret" feeling entirely safe.
Whether his conduct be good or ill is my affair," resumed the poor father, with a testy voice jealous alike of Audley's praise or blame of his rebellious son. Then he rose a moment, and made a strong gulp, as if for air; and laying his broad brown hand on his brother's shoulder, said, "Randal Leslie tells me you are wise, a consummate man of the world. No doubt you are so.
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