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Before you could reach the chapel, she will have left it " Maria Theresa paused, and again looked out from the window. The rolling of carriage-wheels was distinctly heard coming toward the palace. Now it ceased, and the sentry's voice was heard at the gates. "Ah!" cried the empress, joyfully, "I was right. It is Josepha.
Then the door of the house was opened, and the noise of retreating carriage-wheels followed. We met him in the hall, as he entered the house again. My daughter walked up to him, pale and determined. "I insist on knowing who that woman is, and what she wants here." Those were her first words. He looked at her like a man in utter confusion.
She had left her maiden home, she had wept her last farewell on her mother's bosom, the sound of the carriage-wheels had died away; but still Lady Vargrave lingered on the threshold, still she gazed on the spot where the last glimpse of Evelyn had been caught.
The clock in the drawing-room struck twelve, the strokes echoed through the room one after the other, and everything was quiet again. Hermann stood leaning against the cold stove. He was calm, his heart beat regularly, like that of a man resolved upon a dangerous but inevitable undertaking. One o'clock in the morning struck; then two, and he heard the distant noise of carriage-wheels.
Cecil Burleigh was in a gay, light mood, as became him on this public occasion of his election triumph, and he was further elated by Miss Fairfax's amiable condescension in waltzing with him at his sister's behest; and as it was certainly a pleasure to any girl who loved waltzing to waltz with him, they went on until the music stopped at the sound of carriage-wheels.
They stood there on the side of the moor, and became thrillingly conscious of the void waste of the night, without a feature for the eye, and except for the fainting whisper of the carriage-wheels without a murmur for the ear. And instantly, like a mockery, there broke out, very far away, but clear and jolly, the note of the mail-guard's horn. 'Over the hills' was his air.
And meanwhile I shall live unknown, neglected; watching the men without ideals passing me by in the race, splashed with the mud from their carriage-wheels as I beat the pavements with worn shoes. It is really a most unjust world." "An abominable world," agreed the Poet. "But think of me! My case is far harder than yours. Your gift lies within you.
But that night I was nervous and wakeful, and it was past two o'clock when I fancied I heard the sound of horses and carriage-wheels on the avenue. Mary Quince was close by, and therefore I was not afraid to get up and peep from the window. My heart beat fast as I saw a post-chaise approach the court-yard. A front window was let down, and the postilion pulled up for a few seconds.
To think that I once had a husband, a child, a home; to think what I am now to think of it, and not to go mad!" She laid her face against the cold glass with a miserable groan. "Have pity on me, oh, Lord! and let me die!" There was a rush of carriage-wheels without, a hansom cab whirled up to the door, and a tall young man leaped out.
The sound of carriage-wheels on the gravel terrace brought with it voices and laughter and the swiftly passing vision of a char-a-bancs filled with muffled figures bending low to avoid the direct advances of the sun. As the carriage rolled away, four men lounged out of a window on the veranda, shading their eyes against the level beams.
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