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As Dacres lay on the floor he heard the voice of the Italian, and the faint, mournful, pleading tones of a woman's voice, and, finally, he saw the flash of a light, and knew that the Italian was coming to his room, and perhaps this woman also. He held his breath in suspense. What did it mean? The tone of Girasole was not the tone of love.
It was a night of perfect illusion, and the illusion was mysterious, delicate, and faint. I sat silent as we rolled along, twenty years nearer to the original joy of things when John and I drove through the same old dream. Dacres, too, seemed preoccupied; only Cecily was, as they say, herself. Cecily was really more than herself, she exhibited an unusual flow of spirits.
It then passed through the possession of the Winchesters and the Dacres, the same whose tomb is such an ornament in the church, and by will Lady Dacre bequeathed it to Sir Robert Cecil, who sold it to the Earl of Lincoln, from which time we have the pedigree quoted from Dr. King. On the death of the Duke of Beaufort, Sir Hans Sloane bought it for £2,500 and pulled it down .
Fifteen men had been killed and sixty-three had been severely wounded, when Captain Dacres called his officers together and consulted them. Farther waste of life was useless, and the British colours were dropped in submission to those of America. But the result of the contest, though it could not fail to cause great exultation in the United States, reflected no dishonor upon the flag of Britain.
Captain Dacres," she said, "what a time it is since I've seen you, to be sure; I took it for granted you were dead." "Dead!" repeated Nick Walcot. "Why he's married; didn't you know?"
'And as you say, it is the very place to shrine your happiness, if it comes to pass there. 'Well, I am glad to have extracted a word of kindness from you at last, said Dacres, as the stewards came to lay the table. 'But I wish, he added regretfully, 'you could have thought of a test. Four days later we were in Agra.
"And pray, old man, what difference can that make, when I don't set myself apart for any thing of the kind?" Dacres sat in silence with a gloomy frown over his brow. "Besides, are you aware, my boy, of the solemn fact that Biggs's nieces are legion?" said Hawbury.
The maternal virtues of the outside were certainly mine; I put them on with care every morning and wore them with patience all day. Dacres, I assured myself, must have allowed his preconception to lead him absurdly by the nose not to see that the girl was satisfied, that my impatience, my impotence, did not at all make her miserable.
"It seems to me, Hawbury," said Dacres, after a period of thoughtful silence "it seems to me that when you talk of people having their heads turned, you yourself comprehend the full meaning of that sensation?" "Somewhat." "You knocked under at once, of course, to your Ethel?" "Yes." "And feel the same way toward her yet?" "Yes." "Hit hard?" "Yes; and that's what I'm coming to.
Scone Dacres was several years older than Lord Hawbury. One evening Lord Hawbury had just finished his dinner, and was dawdling about in a listless way, when Dacres entered, quite unceremoniously, and flung himself into a chair by one of the windows. "Any Bass, Hawbury?" was his only greeting, as he bent his head down, and ran his hand through his bushy hair.
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