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"Now, is it a coincidence that Miss Wickham's name should be Avice? Or is it that there's some connection between her and all these dead and gone Avices?" "Very strange!" admitted Mr. Pawle. "Viner we'll go next and have a look at the parish registers. But look here! Not a word to parson or clerk about our business! We merely wish to make search for a certain legal purpose, eh?"
Every line and curve of her body none, naturally, knew better than he; and, though not a belief, it was, as has been stated, a formula, a superstition, that the three Avices were inter-penetrated with her essence. 'And the next Avice your daughter, he said stumblingly; 'she is, you say, a governess at the castle opposite? Mrs.
"Be there two Avices in the Priory at Aldgate? crying your Ladyship mercy." "Nay, but one," said Isabel. "Wherefore, Dame?" "But this is not my Avice!" faltered Maude. "I am Saint Clare's Avice, and none other," said the nun stonily. "But Avice de Narbonne?" "Avice de Narbonne I was; and thou wert Maude Gerard." "Christ's mercy on thee!" "What signifiest?" responded Avice, sternly.
The three Avices, the second something like the first, the third a glorification of the first, at all events externally, were the outcome of the immemorial island customs of intermarriage and of prenuptial union, under which conditions the type of feature was almost uniform from parent to child through generations: so that, till quite latterly, to have seen one native man and woman was to have seen the whole population of that isolated rock, so nearly cut off from the mainland.
'The Aphrodites how I insulted her fair form by those failures! the Freyjas, the Nymphs and Fauns, Eves, Avices, and other innumerable Well-Beloveds I want to see them never any more!... "Instead of sweet smell there shall be stink, and there shall be burning instead of beauty," said the prophet. And they came away.
We christened her Avice, to keep up the name, as you requested. I wish you could speak to her I am sure you would like her. 'Is that the baby? faltered Jocelyn. 'Yes, the baby. The person signified, now much nearer, was a still more modernized, up-to-date edition of the two Avices of that blood with whom he had been involved more or less for the last forty years.
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