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"Then you will bring me a crowbar, or whatever the tool or tools may be with which strong doors may be forced. I want that grated iron door forced open, that we may go down into that vault and see what it holds." "Good Heavens Mrs. Berners!" he exclaimed, striking a theatrical attitude. "'Would'st bid me burst The loathsome charnel-house, and Spread a pestilence?"
"Because the correspondence is so perfect that it strikes me at once, as it ought to strike everybody." "How? how?" "The correspondence between her nature and her costume, I mean! The outward glow expresses the inward heat. Believe me, Sybil Berners has been masquerading all her life, and now for the first time appears in her true character a 'Fire Queen!"
The "formalists" or entomologists hold that the natural flies actually on the water should be studied and imitated by the fly-maker, down to the most minute particulars. This is the old theory, and whole libraries have been written to prove and illustrate it, from the Boke of St. Albans, written by the Dame Juliana Berners in 1486, down to the present day.
Berners says that it only sounds so when very much swollen by the rains. And Mr. Berners should know." "Aye, ma'am, and sae he suld! And a very fine gentleman is the laird!" "He is not a laird, Janet! There are no lairds in America." "And what will he be then, ma'am?" "Simply a gentleman Mr. Berners."
"I thank you we both thank you from the depths of our souls. And we pray that the day may come when we shall be able to prove our gratitude," said Lyon, earnestly. "Never mind that! But put madam into her seat. She is ready now; and, indeed, the sooner you are off the better," answered Munson. Mr. Berners advanced towards Sybil, when the whole party was stopped by a terrible event.
As each couple passed into the supper-room, they took off their masks, and handed them to attendants, placed for that purpose, to the right and left of the door. Thus, when the company filled the rooms, every face was shown. There were the usual surprises, the usual gay recognitions. Among the rest, "Harold the Saxon" and "Edith the Fair" stood confessed as Mr. Berners and Mrs.
He spoke of Richard Jefferies with an intimate affection as though he had known the man. He gave Harry some of his enthusiasm, and he lent him "Lavengro." He described it and Harry compared mentally Isobel Berners with Mary Bethel. Then they went up to the little drawing-room an ugly room, but redeemed by a great window overlooking the sea, and a large photograph of Mary on the mantelpiece.
They were attended by the gentleman's valet and the lady's maid, and encumbered besides with a great amount of baggage, so that altogether their appearance was so promising that the landlord of the "Anchor" came forward in person to receive them and bow them into the best parlor. The gentleman registered himself and his party as Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Berners, of Black Hall, Virginia, and two servants.
In vain Wiseman appealed to reason; Berners to feeling; and Vivian to humor; they would not do: the court had often heard all that before, and grown heartily tired of it. Wiseman's wisdom was found to be foolishness; Berner's pathos laughable; and Vivian's humor grievous. The triumvirate of the Washington bar were dethroned, and Prince Ishmael reigned in their stead.
I have done nothing criminal, nor will I do anything so ignominious as to fly from my home, Lyon," she added, proudly. "But, Sybil Oh, Sybil! the circumstantial evidence ." "Why, I explained all that!" replied Mrs. Berners naïvely.
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