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"Don't tell me anything ugly!" she said gently, still not looking at him. Tudor uttered a short laugh. "There's nothing especially venomous about it that I can see." He lifted the teapot and began to pour. "Have you heard from young Evesham lately?" The question was casually uttered; but Avery's hands made a slight involuntary movement over the fire towards which she leaned. "No," she said.
"Do you think it would be wrong to give them a spoonful of brandy?" she asked wistfully. But Avery's principles were proof against this at least. "Yes, I do," she said. "But we can manage quite well without it. Let us go, shall we, and see what can be done?" "I'm afraid I'm very wicked," sighed Mrs. Lorimer. "I'm very thankful to have you with us, dear. I don't know what I should do without you."
The LEICHENFRAU, the public layer out of the dead, told them this; it was she, too, who drew back the sheet from Avery's face in order that they might see it. She was a rosy, apple-cheeked woman, and her vivid colouring was thrown into relief by the long black cloak and the close-fitting, black poke-bonnet that she wore.
The funeral over, the Vicar returned and sent for each child separately to the study for prayer and admonition. Jeanie was the last to face this ordeal and before it was half over Avery was sent for also to find her lying on the study sofa in a dead faint. Avery's indignation was intense, but she could not give it vent.
She was never well at home. The Vicarage was shut in by trees, a damp, unhealthy place. And Dr. Tudor had told her in plain terms that Jeanie lacked the strength to make any headway there. She was like a wilting plant in that atmosphere. She could not thrive in it. Dry warmth was what she needed, and it had made all the difference to her. Avery's letter had been full of hope. She referred to Dr.
"I can tell you what I think, Lady Evesham," he said. "But, remember, that does not bring the end any nearer." "I know," she said. She looked straight back at him with eyes unflinching, and after a moment's thought he spoke. "I think that given every care she may live through the summer, but I do not consider it likely." Avery's face was very pale, but still she did not flinch.
The East India Company were greatly alarmed, but found means to calm his resentment, by promising to search for the robbers, and deliver them into his hands. The noise which this made over all Europe, gave birth to the rumors that were circulated concerning Avery's greatness.
Avery's boarder and tell her the worst. I'm going to give you up, Thomas Jefferson; and I'm the best friend you've got in the world! But I've got to, I've got to I've got to! It's been revealed to me in a dream. There was a man once in the Bible, named Abraham, and there was his dearly beloved little boy named Isaac.
In fact I fear that in Grace's case I have so far erred on the side of laxness. She has become very wild and uncontrolled, and she must be tamed." He closed his lips upon the word, and despair entered Avery's heart. She gripped her self-control with all her might, realizing that the moment she lost it, her strength would be gone. With a great effort she turned from the subject.
Jeanie explained with her customary old-fashioned air of responsibility: "I have come to take care of Avery, as she isn't very well." Tudor's eyes passed instantly and very swiftly to Avery's face. He bent slightly over the hand she gave him. "A good idea!" he said brusquely. "I hope you will take care of each other." He joined them at the tea-table, and talked of indifferent things.
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