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He accordingly left her to get out of the island alone, awaiting her at a station a few miles up the railway, where, discovering himself to her through the carriage-window, he entered the next compartment, his frame pervaded by a glow which was almost joy at having for the first time in his charge one who inherited the flesh and bore the name so early associated with his own, and at the prospect of putting things right which had been wrong through many years.
He looked straight before him out of the carriage-window; but he saw no more of the pleasant landscape, the fair fields of waving corn, with scarlet poppies and deep-blue corn flowers, bright glimpses of sunlit water, and distant villages, with grey church-turrets, nestling among trees.
Josiah Crumpe was not in the coach: he had been written for, but was not yet arrived from Liverpool. Now, it must be observed, this coach-full of relations were all enemies to ensign Bloomington; and the moment they put their heads out of the carriage-window, and saw him standing in the parlour, their surprise and indignation were too great for coherent utterance.
From the carriage-window as you pass you look down the coombe for half a mile perhaps, and also down a road which, leading out from M Station a few yards below the viaduct, descends the left-hand slope at a sharp incline to the stream; but whether to cross it or run close beside it down the valley bottom you cannot tell, since, before they meet, an eastward curve of the coombe shuts off the view.
Cosmo ran to the other. "Their feet's fu' o' snaw," said Aggie. "Ay; it's ba'd hard," said Cosmo. "They maun hae come ower a saft place: it wadna ba' the nicht upo' the muir." "Hae ye yer knife, Cosmo?" asked Aggie. Here a head was put out of the carriage-window. It was that of a lady in a swansdown travelling-hood. She had heard an unintelligible conversation and one intelligible word.
The prisoners obeyed, and the coach soon rolled slowly through the streets, left the Courtray gate, and proceeded a short distance along the road towards that city. After a few minutes a halt was made. Ryhove then made his appearance at the carriage-window, and announced to the astonished prisoners that, they were forthwith to be hanged upon a tree which stood by the road-side.
A man opposite him was looking amicably on his lively grey eyes. Skepsey handed a card from his pocket. The man perused it, and crying: 'Dreux? waved out of the carriage-window at a westerly distance, naming Rouen as not the place, not at all, totally other.
In a very few minutes the door was opened, and the porter staggered down, after a word with the driver, to the carriage-window, not half awake. "Is Lady Mardykes well?" demanded Lady Walsingham. "Is Sir Bale well?" "Are all the people at Mardykes Hall quite well?" With clasped hands Lady Haworth listened to the successive answers to these questions which her sister hastily put.
Eugene looked gloomily out of the carriage-window, and heard a succession of deep sighs. "Shall I tell you why you are so sad?" said Olympia to her son. "I am sad because I feel my miserable impotence," replied he, moodily. "I am sad because I must at last acknowledge that Mazarin was right when he said that gold was the only divinity devoutly worshipped on earth."
I think he caught a glimpse of my face at the carriage-window, for I am almost sure he bowed, but I shrunk back into the corner, and pretended to go to sleep; and when we arrived in Lowndes Street I was not at all sorry to wish Aunt Deborah good-night, and go upstairs to bed.
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