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She talked of an uncle of Clarice, a Philistine sea-captain with pronounced opinions upon the advance of woman, ludicrously mimicking his efforts to adapt a quarter-deck style of denunciation to the gentler atmosphere of a drawing-room. To sharpen his diatribes the worthy captain was in the habit of straining ineffectually after epigrams. Mrs.
She started from her pillow, and, by assuming a new and more distinct attitude, permitted me to recognise Clarice herself! Three days before, I had left her, beside the bed of a dying friend, at a solitary mansion in the mountains of Donegal. Here it had been her resolution to remain till her friend should breathe her last.
When the orb of day in all his glory bursts from his liquid bed upon the astonished gaze of some lonely wanderer on the Andes, or the Alps, or our own Rockies, say, the spectacle is all the more effective if the wanderer was not expecting anything of the kind; didn't suppose it was time yet, or, still better, didn't know there was any sun. That is the way Jim will feel when he sees Clarice.
He tossed restlessly through the night, until one thought emerged from the turmoil of his ideas, fashioned itself into a fact, and stood framed there before his eyes. He held the future of Clarice in the hollow of his hand. Her fate rested upon his decision, and he must decide. Drake rose and walked out on to the balcony, as the dawn was breaking over London.
"Then let me give you a book," said Clarice, "which will tell you all about it." She went to the waggon, and brought out a small Bible. "There! If you will read that, and do what it tells, you will become wise and happy." "Well, my dear, I will accept your book, and do as you advise me.
'No; I left him alone to arrange his speech. He meant to mention this very charge. Mrs. Willoughby started to her feet. 'Then that settles it, she said. 'Clarice was waiting for him in his rooms. Oh, if you had only gone in with him! You remember what I wrote to you, that he would lie in the mud if he thought it would save her. Well, that is what he has done.
Clarice, however, had heard me moving among the bushes, and turned her eyes towards me with a startled look. I was sure she had perceived me, so I at once came forward. Manley put out his hand. "You heard what I said to your sister?" "Yes; and what she said in reply," I answered. "It gives me the greatest possible pleasure. There is no man I ever met whom I should so much like as a brother-in-law.
Herbert no longer slides down the banisters, with his former recklessness, but sits and looks wistfully at Cousin Clarice. The change involves a saving in lint and arnica, but a loss of muscular development.
Winnemak and several of his people were left in charge of Uncle Jeff's hut and stores. We had not a few difficulties to encounter on our return, but Clarice, by whose side Manley rode whenever the path would permit, endured them bravely; and we ultimately, without accident, reached the foot of the mountains, where we found Maysotta encamped with the remainder of her people.
He was very indignant with his people, but explained that the whole had happened by mistake. Our first thought, of course, was to discover Clarice and Rachel.
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