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He is coming back again. 'I must be up. Let me get up, said Averil, raising herself, but pausing from weakness and breathlessness. And when they had forced some food upon her, she carried out her resolution, though twice absolutely fainting in the course of dressing; and at length crept softly, leaning on Cora's arm, into the parlour.
Oh! if I had but more time! but but it was only the misery of those moments that showed me why it was that I was always irresistibly drawn to you, and yet made instinctive efforts to break the spell; and now you will not understand. 'I do understand, said Averil, at length entirely roused, but chiefly by resentment.
A few words from you would set us both right, and we could all be friends again." "Ah!" said Carlyon. "But suppose I have nothing to say?" "You must have something!" she declared vehemently. "You never do anything without a reason." "Generous again!" said Carlyon. "Oh, don't laugh at me!" cried Averil, stung by the quiet unconcern of his words.
By Jove, Miss Eversley, you've given us an awful fright!" Averil went up the steps with so palpable an effort that Seddon hastily dragged forward a chair. Her lips, as she answered Toby, were quite colourless. "I have had a fright myself," she said. Then she looked round at the other men with a shaky laugh. "I have been riding for my life," she said a little breathlessly.
'I won't encourage it, returned Daisy, with dignified decision, that gave her father his first approach to a laugh on that day; but nobody was in spirits to desire Miss Daisy to define from what her important sanction was withdrawn. Mary gave up her Sunday-school class to see how Averil was, and found Henry much perturbed.
"Oh, have you really begun it?" cried Diana, all alight with eager interest in a moment. "Yes, I have only a few pages written, but I have it all pretty well thought out. I've had such a time to get a suitable plot. None of the plots that suggested themselves suited a girl named AVERIL." "Couldn't you have changed her name?" "No, the thing was impossible.
'Did he say he would? 'Of course he did, when Henry threatened him with it, and talked of the burden of his maintenance! He said, "Very well, I will," and he means it! 'He will not mean it when the spirit of repentance has had time to waken. 'He will take nothing that is grudged him, said Averil.
'You mistake me, he exclaimed; 'I mean that no words can tell how strong the feeling is that that No, I never knew its force till now; but, Averil, I cannot part with you you who are all the world to me. Lifting her heavy eyelids for a moment, she looked bewildered, and then, moving towards the door, said, 'I don't know whether this is jest or earnest any way, it is equally unsuitable.
One question Averil asked of her whether they should be utterly out of reach of their Church? Cora herself had been bred up to liberal religious ways, and was ready to attend whatever denomination of public worship came first to hand, though that which had descended from the Pilgrim Fathers came most naturally.
But Carlyon's abandonment of Derrick, and his subsequent explanation thereof, were terribly overwhelming evidence against him. And now this man, this spy, wanted to use her as an instrument to accomplish some secret end of his. A matter of life or death, he said. And for which of these did he purpose to use her efforts? Averil sickened at the possibilities the question raised in her mind.
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