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Otway Bethel's recognition of him; Sir Francis Levison's scared paleness, for he had noticed that; Mr. Ebenezer's revelation. The point in it all, that finally settled most upon Mr. Carlyle, was the thought that if Levison were indeed the man, he could not be instrumental in bringing him to justice.
Bethel's method of dealing with any present problem to flee into the happy land of reminiscence and to stay there until the matter had, comfortably or otherwise, settled itself. "But I shouldn't worry," she said, looking up at her daughter. "Things always turn up, and besides," she added, "you might marry, dear." "Marry!" Mary looked up at her mother sharply. Mrs.
She sprang to the window, and then, moved by some blind impulse, rushed to the head of the stairs. There were steps, and Mrs. Bethel's voice penetrated the gloom. "Mary, Mary, where are you?" She crept back to her room. He walked back to "The Flutes" with the one fact ever before him that she had refused him.
And Lady Isabel signed to the carriage to drive on. As Mr. Carlyle turned away, he met Otway Bethel, a nephew of Colonel Bethel's, who was tolerated in the colonel's house because he had no other home, and appeared incapable to making himself one. Some persons persisted in calling him a gentleman as he was by birth others a mauvais sujet. The two are united sometimes.
"Why it's no more that than What Thorn?" he broke off abruptly. "You are equivocating, Bethel. The Thorn who is mixed up or said to be in the Hallijohn affair. Is this the same man?" "You are a fool, Carlyle, which is what I never took you to be yet," was Mr. Bethel's rejoinder, spoken in a savage tone.
"Sure and certain," responded the gratified justice; "fire and water shouldn't keep me away." Soon after Mr. Carlyle was left alone another clerk entered. "Miss Carlyle is asking to see you, sir, and Colonel Bethel's come again." "Send in Miss Carlyle first," was the answer. "What is it, Cornelia?" "Ah! You may well ask what?
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