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Moreover, the incident of the fight and of Miss Boyce's share in it had thrilled a creature all susceptibility and curiosity; and the little merry thing would sit hushed, looking at the heroine of it, awed by the thought of what a girl only two years older than herself must have already seen of sin and tragedy, envying her with all her heart, and by contrast honesty despising for the moment that very happy and popular person, Betty Macdonald!
The passage at "Ego cubui et dormivi" is sublime, Purcell's discords creating an atmosphere of strange beauty, almost unearthly, and that yields to the unspeakable tenderness of the naïve phrase at the words, "Quia Jehovah sustentat me." The Te Deum was until recently known only by Dr. Boyce's perversion. Dr.
They had now been discussing Boyce's criminalities in great detail for a considerable time, and nothing else seemed to have any power to touch or, at any rate, to hold Lord Maxwell's attention. A certain deep pride in Aldous the pride of intimate affection felt itself wounded. "I see that you have grave cause to think badly of her father," he said at last, rising as he spoke.
She will take her own line, whatever happens. See her see the wife, too, who is entirely under Miss Boyce's influence and wire to me at my hotel at Birmingham. If they wish to make other arrangements, well and good. I shall have all the more time to give to the election." Leaving this commission behind him, he had started on his journey.
The only gleam in the grey of his life since he had determined about Christmas-time to settle down at the Court had come from Mr. French's letter. That letter, together with Mr. Boyce's posthumous note, which contained nothing, indeed, but a skilful appeal to neighbourliness and old family friendship, written in the best style of the ex-Balkan Commissioner, had naturally astonished him greatly.
What was the use of any anathema when he would only take it away, as a dog does a bone, and enjoy it in a solitary corner? I recovered myself. "Well?" said I, with dignity. "Did Mrs. Connor leave any message?" "I was to give you her compliments, sir, and say she was sorry you were so unwell and she was shocked to hear of Colonel Boyce's sad affliction." This was sheer orderly room.
Meanwhile Marigold had brought in decanters and syphons. Betty attended to Boyce's needs with a provoking air of nonchalance. If a notorious German imbrued in the blood of babes had chanced to be in her hospital, she would have given him his medicine with just the same air.
"Damn the fellow!" he said at last, flinging his cigarette away. "Well, that's done with. All the same, he would have liked that Midland job! He has been hankering after a strike there for some time, and might have ranted as he pleased. I shall have the satisfaction of informing him he has lost his opportunity. Now then who to send? By Jove! what about Miss Boyce's friend?"
This penetration of strange hospitals was an agitating adventure. Apart, however, from the mere physical nervousness against which, as I say, I fought, there was another element in my feelings with regard to Boyce's summons. If I talk about the Iron Hand of Fate you may think I am using a cliche of melodrama. Perhaps I am. But it expresses what I mean.
Bell and Lily went together also to Mrs Boyce's. "If she makes herself very disagreeable, I shall insist upon talking of your marriage," said Lily. "I've not the slightest objection," said Bell; "only I don't know what there can be to say about it. Marrying the doctor is such a very commonplace sort of thing." "Not a bit more commonplace than marrying the parson," said Lily. "Oh, yes, it is.
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