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Swiftly and silently Sybil threw off her masquerading dress, that she had unconsciously worn until now, and dropped it on the floor, where it lay glowing like a smouldering bonfire. She then put on a water-proof riding habit, and announced herself ready. "Come, then," said Lyon Berners, taking up both bags, and beckoning her to follow him silently.
It is a business that will require considerable tact and discretion; or at least, great secretiveness and cautiousness," added Captain Pendleton. "And these, Joe, like all his race, possesses in excess," observed Lyon Berners. "Are the guests all gone away from the house?" inquired Sybil. "Nearly all. My sister remains there for the present to watch your interests, Mrs. Berners.
It was the occasion of Sybil Berners' mask ball; and Black Hall, the Black Valley, and the town of Blackville were all in a state of unprecedented excitement; for this was the first entertainment of the kind that had ever been given in the locality, and the gentry of three contiguous counties had been invited to assist at it.
And so, every time you chanced to be inquired for by one party, you were accounted for by another. Some said you were with Mrs. Berners; others that you had gone to Blackville on pressing business connected with the tragedy. And these last authorities came to be believed; so that when I slipped away I left the people momentarily expecting your return." "Whom did you leave there?"
"He is with her; and they know that I know Where they are, and what they do; they believe my tears flow While they laugh, laugh at me, at me left in the drear Empty hall to lament in, for them! I am here." "You are a lunatic, and fit only for a lunatic asylum!" was the angry comment of Lyon Berners, as he turned upon his heel and left his wife.
At least two other editions of the book appeared in Flemish, and it also made its way, in 1502, to Germany, where, translated and with certain alterations and additions, it seems to have been re-issued frequently. Albans. The treatise is for this reason associated with the name of Dame Juliana Berners, but that somewhat dubious compiler can have had nothing whatever to do with it.
In the intensity of their love or their hate they were capable of suffering or inflicting death; these Berners, whose friendship was almost as fatal as their enmity; these Berners, who "never spared man in their hate or woman in their love;" these Berners of the burning heart; these Berners of the boiling blood; these Berners of Black Hall; and whose sole representative now was Sybil, the last daughter of their line, who concentrated in her own ardent, intense nature all the most beautiful, all the most terrible attributes of her strong and fiery race.
'Wooh! said the postilion. 'It is true that I am of good 'Ay, ay, said the postilion, 'let us hear 'Of good blood, continued Belle; 'my name is Berners, Isopel Berners, though my parents were unfortunate. Indeed, with respect to blood, I believe I am of better blood than the young man.
"This is really confounding to all one's intelligence," exclaimed Lyon Berners, gazing around in perplexity. "It is, indeed. But it is well that you have seen this mystery with your own eyes, for if you had not done so, you never would have believed in it," said Sybil, gravely shaking her head. "Nor do I believe in it, now that I have seen it."
Berners was my friend, not my lodger, and I am Andrew de la Borne, Cecil's elder brother." She looked at him for several moments steadily. "I think that you might have told me," was all she said. He shrugged his shoulders. "Why?" he asked, a little brusquely. "I am not of your world, or your stepmother's.
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