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Still, as the representative of a million, Ann Eliza was entitled to some consideration, and Dolly motioned her to a seat beside her, and, with her black-bordered handkerchief to her eyes, said to her: 'Tom tells me you are going to marry him, and I trust you will try to make him happy.
He remained at the bottom of the stairs, watching until her slight figure had disappeared round the bend of the stairway. "Your Great-aunt Rachel is dead, Roger." Lady Gertrude made this announcement the following morning at breakfast. In her hand she held the letter which contained the news written in an old-fashioned, sloping style of penmanship on thin, heavily black-bordered note-paper.
And I will confess that when people saw my father sitting perched up on the omnibus of death, dressed in his long, wide, black cloak, with his black-bordered three-cornered hat on his head and then his face, exactly as the sun is drawn, round and jocund it was difficult for them to think of the grave and of sorrow.
Isn't it much more innocent than all the Coffinkey gossip? I have no doubt Mrs. Coffinkey's sister-in-law looks up from her black-bordered pocket- handkerchief to hear how Mrs. Brownlow's sister-in-law went to the cricket-match. Do you know, Robert really thought I had been there? I only wonder how many I scored. I dare say Mrs. Coffinkey's sister- in-law knows."
We understood that all the hopes and ambitions of the man rested on the head of that charming girl, who, near all the corruption of the theatre, had grown up in innocence and purity, as one sees sometimes in the scanty grass of the faubourgs a field-flower spring up by the door of a hovel. We were among the first at the funeral, to which we had been summoned by a black-bordered billet.
Many tributes were paid to the dead pioneer. As soon as Sir Frederick Lugard, the Governor-General of Nigeria, heard of the event he telegraphed to Mr. Wilkie: "It is with the deepest regret that I learn of the death of Miss Slessor. Her death is a great loss to Nigeria." And later came the formal black-bordered notice in the Government Gazette:
"I don't know the hand," mused she. "Black-bordered, and black-sealed too." She opened it without excitement, and read it through: it was but a few lines. "Your omen has proved true for once, Mrs. Coe," said she, in quiet tones. "This speaks of death." "Whose death?" cried Harry. "My husband's, Richard's father. Carew of Crompton died last night."
It was then that my unlucky star shone effulgent. For, as she was shaking hands all round: "Oh, Mrs. Merriman," I said, with the gentlest intent, "would you care to come out to see my dining-room? My Flowering-currant was very early this year " To my horrified amazement Mis' Fire Chief Merriman lifted her black-bordered handkerchief to her face and broke into subdued sobbing.
When he got back to his room, spent and disheveled at nine o'clock, he found two letters under his door. One, a black-bordered envelope addressed in Connie's familiar scrawl, he thrust into his pocket, smiling in spite of himself at the memory of Miss Lady's bargain stationery.
Later that night Hogan tapped at Field's front door and asked would the lieutenant step over to Mrs. Ray's a minute, and he went. "Read that," said Mrs. Ray, pointing to a paragraph on the third page of the black-bordered missive that had been too much for Mrs. Blake. And he read: "Through it all Esther has been my sweetest comfort, but now I must lose her, too.
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