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He believed that poor Henrietta had meant well when she had gone to Hulworth to look after Mrs. Avory; but her action proved to the canon what he had always known that a woman requires guidance, and he meant to tell his wife kindly how much wiser it would have been if, before taking any action in this matter, she had wired to him for advice.
'No one was ever meant to know! she cried, 'and now I shall never be able to look you in the face again as long as we both do live! It's been going on so long, Jane, and you 've all been so sorry for Mrs. Avory, and so sorry for Toffy. 'Does he know? asked Jane, in a low voice. Kitty raised her head and pretended to laugh again. 'I 've not proposed to him yet, she said.
KINK'S CHILDREN'S PARTY. Shakespeare Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon. Robert looked at it, and threw it down. "Very offensive," he said. Mrs. Avory handed it to Janet. "Whoever can it be from?" Janet asked, turning it over and over. "The postmark is Chiswick." "A good way to find out," said Gregory, "is to open it." Janet did so, and read it, laughing.
Avory pleaded to walk to the station for the sake of one last talk together, and her watch which never kept scrupulous time deceiving her as to the hour, she missed the last train at the little branch station at Hulworth, and then wondered tearfully, and with an access of nervousness which rendered her almost hysterical, what she should do.
Avory worked hard at her unremunerative tasks, and trimmed parasols and cut out blouses, and worked hopefully, because she knew that it would all come right some day, and because Nigel had said that he loved her. And Nigel wrote regularly to her, and always went to see her on Sunday when he was in London.
Avory, and when many regrettable things were said concerning two people to whom, at the best of times, life was a little bit difficult, she would seem to see the young man, with his delicate face and his head bound up with white linen, lying on the frilled pillow of the great canopied bed, and the recollection would come back to her of the tones in which he had said, 'It's so often the good ones that have the hardest lines, and Miss Abingdon never failed in loyalty to Toffy, and believed in him to the very end.
Toffy sat up in his bunk with a horribly bad headache, and wrote a long letter to Mrs. Avory, which he posted at Vigo; and he wrote another letter, not nearly so long, but one which cost him much more time to compose, and addressed it to Miss Kitty Sherard.
Avory finished he began to pronounce the following sentence on me, and while he spoke there was deadly silence in that crowded court: "George William Foote, you have been found Guilty by the jury of publishing these blasphemous libels. This trial has been to me a very painful one.
"I don't know him," said Mrs. Avory. "What is he like?" "Well, mum," said Eliza Pollard, "he's a short gentleman with a red face and two boys, and he seems very angry." "Ask him what he wants to see me about," said Mrs. Avory. "I did," said Eliza Pollard, "and he said he could not tell me, but the matter was of the highest importance." Mrs.
I will admit that we have only just come to Chiswick, and that you were better known here; but the fact remains that the letter was addressed, not to the name of Avory, but Amory." Mrs. Avory was bewildered. "It is all very unexpected," she said. "I really cannot remember reading the address on the envelope at all. It was handed to me as mine, and I opened it. It may have been Amory.
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