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Now may I have her letters?" "Is that your decision, Berkley?" "It is. I want only her letters from you and any little keepsakes relics if there be any " "I offer to recognise you as my son." "I decline believing that you mean to be just and perhaps kind God knows what you do mean by disinterring the dead for a son to look back upon " "Could I have offered you what I offer, otherwise?" "Man! Man!
"Where are the originals of those letters?" he managed to say at last. "In this house." "Am I to have them?" "I think so." "So do I," said the young man with a ghastly smile. "I'm quite sure of it." Colonel Arran regarded him in surprise. "There is no occasion for violence in this house, Berkley." "Where are the letters?" "Have you any doubts concerning what my attorneys have told you?
"Not one word more, I beseech you. Do not think to console me, by depreciating her. She is very dear to me still; a beautiful, high-minded, noble woman." "Yes," answered Berkley; "that is the waywith you all, you young men. You see a sweet face, or a something, you know not what, and flickering reason says, Good night; amen to common sense.
Suddenly she thought of Celia, and became frightened. Suppose Celia had gone to the kitchen! What would Celia think of her attitude toward the son of Constance Berkley? She had never told Celia that she had seen Berkley or that she even knew of his whereabouts. What would Celia think! In her sudden consternation she had walked straight to the closed door.
Berkley heard his name called out, and, looking up, saw Casson, astride a huge horse, signalling him eagerly from his saddle. "Who in hell have you got there?" he asked, pushing his horse up to the litter. "By God, it's Colonel Arran," he added in a modified voice. "Is he very bad, Berkley?" "I don't know. Can't you stop one of those ambulances, Jack?
I penetrated your motive in telling it, let it go at that, and kept both eyes open and waited." Berkley never moved. The painful colour stained the scar on his brow to an ugly purple. "The consequences of which falsehood," continued the doctor, "culminated in my asking Miss Lynden to marry me. . . . I've been thinking wondering whether that lie was justifiable. And I've given up the problem.
It was now six or eight weeks since the hearse carrying away the remains of the ill-fated Sir Wynston Berkley had driven down the dusky avenue; the autumn was deepening into winter, and as Marston gloomily trod the woods of Gray Forest, the withered leaves whirled drearily along his pathway, and the gusts that swayed the mighty branches above him were rude and ungenial.
Several people began to discuss the inaction of the fleet off Charleston bar during the bombardment; the navy was freely denounced and defended, and Berkley, pleased that he had started a row, listened complacently, inserting a word here and there calculated to incite several prominent citizens to fisticuffs. And the ferry-boat started with everybody getting madder.
Peregrine Bertie, Baron Willoughby of Eresby and Brooke, Governor of Berwick. Berkley, Baron Berkley, of the ancient family of the Kings of Denmark. Parker, Baron Morley. Dacre, Baron Dacre of Gyllesland: this barony is vacant. Dacre, Baron Dacre of the South: he died four years since, and the barony devolved to his daughter. Brook, Baron Cobham, Warden of the Cinque Ports.
"Letty!" he said, "where is Mrs. Paige?" Celia had caught the girl's hands in hers, and was searching her thin white face with anxious eyes; and Letty shook her head and looked wonderingly at Berkley. "Nothing has happened to her," she said. "A Sister of Mercy was wounded in the field hospital near Azalea, and they sent for Mrs. Paige to fill her place temporarily.
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