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From across the quicksands came Charlton's whoop of triumph. Presently Beulah was stooping over him with tender little cries of woe and joy. He looked at her with a wan, tired smile. "I didn't think you'd make it in time." In a moment he added: "I was horribly afraid. God, it was awful!" "Of course. Who wouldn't have been?" She dismissed his confession as of no importance. "But it's all over now.
Somebody was reproaching somebody else with being "spooney on the little girl." "He! he!" the reply began with that hateful giggle "I know my business, gentlemen. Not such a fool as you think." Here there was a shuffling of feet, and Charlton's imagination easily supplied the image of Smith Westcott cutting a "pigeon-wing." "Don't I know the ways of this wicked world?
She put her hand upon his arm and looked up, such a look of pure rebuke as carried to his mind the full force of the words she did not speak, 'Who art thou that carest for a worm which shall die, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker! Charlton's eyes fell. Fleda turned gently away and began to mend the fire. He stood watching her for a little. "What do you think of me, Fleda?" he said at length.
No; I told my friends I must visit Biddulph before I left the kingdom, and promising to return to them in three or four days, I hastily set out for Suffolk, and rested not till I arrived at Mrs Charlton's.
Colman had organized fifty Leaguers into a guard, to be ready for any emergencies. Over the tops of the low houses could be seen the vast cloud of smoke from the fire; the air was heavy with the odors of burning wood; faintly came sounds of engines, of jubilant drunken shouts. "A fracture of the skull and of the jaw-bone. Not necessarily serious," was Dr. Charlton's verdict.
Neville addressed Gaunt with elaborate courtesy, and to this effect: "I find myself in a difficulty, Sir. You did me the honor to invite me to Mr. Charlton's funeral, and I accepted; but now I fear to intrude a guest, the sight of whom may be disagreeable to you. And, on the other hand, my absence might be misconstrued as a mark of disrespect, or of a petty hostility I am far from feeling.
Charlton's displeasure with the existing state of things had revived as his remorse died away, and that quiet face did not have a quieting effect upon him. "What on earth is going on?" he began, rather abruptly, as soon as he entered the room. "What horrible cookery is on foot?" "I venture to recommend that you do not inquire," said Fleda.
Lady Charlton's broken sentences had almost the feebleness of extreme old age that cannot accept as true what it cannot understand. "It seems impossible, quite impossible," she said. She was very tired, and Rose wished it had been practicable to keep this knowledge from her till later.
And please warn her that she must stay at most only half an hour by that clock over there on the mantel." Every day Jane had been coming to inquire, had been bringing or sending flowers and fruit which, by Dr. Charlton's orders, were not supposed to enter the invalid's presence. Latterly she had been asking to see Victor; she was surprised when Mrs. Colman returned with leave for her to enter.
I ought here to mention a fact which occurred about this time, because it is a fact that has some bearing on the course of the story, and because it may help us to a more charitable judgment in regard to the character of Mr. Charlton's step-father.
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