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I wrote you a letter to say so I wrote to tell you that I would forfeit my place in your service, and my expectations from your generosity, if I did not prove to you when I came back from Switzerland that my own private suspicion of Miss Bygrave was the truth. I directed that letter to you at St. Crux, and I posted it myself. Now, Mr. Noel, read the paper which I have forced into your hand.
Mr Lennard returned home; and a few days afterwards Lady Bygrave sent him a letter from Mrs Barnett, who said, that in consequence of the very satisfactory account her ladyship had written of Mr Lennard and his daughter, she should be happy to receive the young lady as an inmate immediately, to fill up the only vacancy in her establishment, and which she regretted that she could not keep open beyond a week or so.
"Now," thought Mrs. Lecount, as she locked the letter up in her desk, preparatory to posting it the next day with her own hand, "now I have got her!" The next morning the servant from Sea View came, with her master's compliments, to make inquiries after Miss Bygrave's health. Captain Wragge's bulletin was duly announced Miss Bygrave was so ill as to be confined to her room.
Enderby showed any signs of returning consciousness. Miss Bygrave and Maud sat by her bed together, and at length one of them noticed that she had opened her eyes and was looking about her, though without moving her head. "Mother," Maud asked, bending over her, "are you better? Do you know me?" Emily nodded. There was no touch of natural colour in her face, and its muscles seemed paralysed.
Bygrave, by your own particular request, she turned as pale as ashes; and when we added that you had left us in company with this same Mr. Bygrave, she clasped her hands and stared at us as if she had taken leave of her senses. Her next question was, 'Where is Mr. Noel now? We could only give her one reply Mr. Noel had not informed us. She looked perfectly thunderstruck at that answer.
"No, ma'am," replied the captain, as briefly as possible. "My niece is no better." "I have had some experience, Mr. Bygrave, in nursing. If I could be of any use " "Thank you, Mrs. Lecount. There is no necessity for our taking advantage of your kindness." This plain answer was followed by a moment's silence. The housekeeper felt some little perplexity. What had become of Mr.
"I know two people who could be trusted!" cried Noel Vanstone. "Both ladies both spinsters both bitter enemies of Lecount's. But what is your drift, Mr. Bygrave? Though I am not usually wanting in penetration, I don't altogether see your drift." "You shall see it directly, Mr. Vanstone."
Miss Bygrave looked into his face, which had a pleading earnestness, and a deep pity lay in her eyes. "Let it be so," she said with decision. "I myself have much hope from Maud's influence. I will write and tell her not to renew her engagement, and she will be with us at the end of September." "But you will not tell her anything till she comes?" "No."
Bygrave is a naturally domestic woman. When she is able to employ herself, she finds unlimited resources in her needle and thread." Having reached this stage of the explanation, and having purposely skirted, as it were, round the confines of truth, in the event of the housekeeper's curiosity leading her to make any private inquiries on the subject of Mrs.
In the same district, in one of a row of semi-detached houses standing in gardens, lived Ida's little friend, Maud Enderby, with her aunt, Miss Bygrave, a lady of forty-two or forty-three.
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