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Berkley " "Camilla is a sibyl. This night my peace of mind departed for ever." "May I offer you a little of mine?" "I may ask more than that of you?" "You mean a dance?" "More than one." "How many?" "All of them. How many will you give me?" "One. Please look at the stage. Isn't Laura Keene bewitching?" "Your voice is." "Such nonsense.
"She came in this morning at high water. She got to Sumter too late." "Yes. Powhatan had already knocked the head off John Smith," observed Berkley thoughtfully. "They did these things better in colonial days."
At length people came into the parlour, and laid aside their shawls and hats, and exchanged a word or two with Berkley to Flemming they were all unknown. To him it was all Mr. Brown and Mrs. Johnson, and nothing more. The conversation turned upon the various excursions of the day.
"Yes, indeed, mademoiselle Sir Wynston Berkley, a gay London gentleman, and a cousin of Mr. Marston's," she replied. "Ha a cousin!" exclaimed the young lady, with a little more surprise in her tone than seemed altogether called for "a cousin? oh, then, that is the reason of his visit. Do, pray, madame, tell me all about him; I am so much afraid of strangers, and what you call men of the world.
It was into the streets of such a city, a meaner, dirtier, uglier, noisier, perhaps more vicious edition of the French metropolis of the Third Empire, thronged with fantastic soldiery and fox-eyed contractors, filled already with new faces faces of Western born, Yankee born, foreign born; stupid faces, crafty faces, hard faces, bedizened faces it was into the streets of such a city that Berkley sauntered twice a day to and fro from his office, regretting only that his means did not permit him to go to the devil like a gentleman.
As for Berkley, he was at last alone with his letters and his keepsakes, in the lodgings which he inhabited and now would inhabit no more. The letters lay still unopened before him on his writing table; he stood looking at the miniatures and photographs, all portraits of his mother, from girlhood onward. One by one he took them up, examined them touched them to his lips, laid each away.
And on that day she came to her shameful decision. She wrote him, waited a dreary week for an answer; wrote him again, waited two weeks; wrote him a third and last letter. No answer came. And she went dully about the task of forgetting. About the middle of July she heard from Stephen that Berkley had enlisted in one of the new unattached cavalry companies, but which one he did not know.
And then, somehow, people began to get uneasy; and the first stragglers appeared. . . . Oh, it did seem incredible at first; we wouldn't believe that the siege of Richmond had been abandoned." She smiled drearily. "I've found out that it is very easy to believe what you want to believe in this world. . . . Will you have some more broth, Mr. Berkley?"
"'Oh, I am so glad to hear this, I replied; 'that shows Patrick's leg must be quite well and strong again. And how are Miss Vea and Alfred? did you see them also?" "'No, miss, said the old woman, 'I didn't see them. The young lady and her brother have gone to stay with another aunt at some distance off; but Master Patrick is to remain with Mrs. Berkley all the winter.
Henry died a baby, but Alfred lived till he was eight years old, and then died, and was buried by the side of his infant brother. The fourth and last child of Mr. and Mrs. Low was Bernard; he was more than five years younger than Lucilla. "When Bernard was born, it seemed as if no one could make too much of him. The old woman, Susan Berkley, who had been Mr.
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