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It was all she could think or say. "Gone, gone." Jean took the offending novel back home with him, hidden under his jerkin; but Beverley's note lay upon Alice's heart, a sweet comfort and a crushing weight, when an hour later Hamilton sent for her and she was taken before him.
If Beverley's pearls, or if Beverley's papers, were in this room, no matter where, even if she had to touch that blood-stained coat to search the pockets, she would not go without them. The dark blind ought to be pulled down, because from some high window she might be seen and identified afterward, if trouble came of this night's work.
As soon as he grew up he served, as we have said, in the troop commanded by Colonel Beverley's father; and after his death, Colonel Beverley had procured him the situation of forest ranger, which had been held by his father, who was then alive, but too aged to do the duty.
With this in her heart she went about Roussillon place singing merry snatches of Creole songs; and when at the gate, which still hung lop-sided on account of Beverley's force in shutting it, she came unexpectedly face to face with Captain Farnsworth, there was no great surprise on her part. He lifted his hat and bowed very politely; but a bold smile broke over his somewhat ruddy face.
Beverley's love of adventure and his patriotic desire to serve his country came to his aid vigorously enough; still, with Alice's love-song ringing in his heart, there was a cord pulling him back from duty to the sweetest of all life's joys. Helm was already at the landing, where a little fleet of boats was being prepared. A thousand things had to be done in short order.
Clo guessed, by the slight start Angel gave, that she must have caught sight of his reflection. He turned and came back. "If he asks to see the pearls!" was the thought in Clo's head. Her eyes met Beverley's and read the same terror there. Roger spoke to Miss Blackburne, pausing on the threshold. "What do you think of the baubles?" he asked with elaborate carelessness.
Beverley's advent could not fail to mean a great deal in the life of a girl like Alice; a new era, as it were, would naturally begin for her the moment that his personal influence touched her imagination; but it is well not to measure her too strictly by the standard of our present taste and the specialized forms of our social and moral code.
"He thinks, then, that you had been out in the grounds?" Val Beverley's face had been very pale, but now she flushed indignantly, and glanced away from me as she replied: "He dared to suggest that I had been to keep an assignation." "The fool!" I cried. "The ignorant, impudent fool!" "Oh," she declared, "I felt quite ill with indignation.
The violets that Sir Beverley's bride had planted fifty years ago! The thought of his grandfather went through him like a stab through the heart. He clenched his hands and held his breath while the spasm passed. Never since the night Victor had summoned Avery to comfort him, had he felt so sick a longing for the old man's presence. For a few lingering seconds it was almost more than he could bear.
I myself cared less about it, but it is unpleasant to be thought so very unclean and capable of poisoning a whole city. We took our guardians' boat and again made a round of the harbour; were met by Mrs. Bathurst's carriage, and carried to my very excellent apartment at Beverley's Hotel. In passing I saw something of the city, and very comical it was; but more of that hereafter.
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