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That might be. She tried to think that this was the most probable way of accounting for the watch. She could be certain as to the positive identity of the watch being in William Darley's possession. Again, it might be that Philip himself was near at hand was here in this very place starving, as too many were, for insufficiency of means to buy the high-priced food.
Can't we fix it all quietly some way? I don't think you meant to do wrong." "Yes, I did. I did everything with my eyes open. I ought to suffer for it. The only trouble is that those I love will suffer with me. But don't you think the restoration of fortune will bring back Mr. Darley's mind?" "I don't know. I can't tell about that. He is very queer." "Do you have a doctor for him?" "Oh, no.
Mark bathed the sufferer's face again, but there was no return to consciousness, and growing more and more alarmed, he hurried to his father's chamber and woke him, Sir Edward as he leaped up, still dressed, snatching eagerly at his sword. "You, Mark?" he cried. "The enemy?" "Yes no, father. Come quickly. Young Darley's here, dying." "Young Darley here!" "Yes, in my room," cried Mark wildly.
Indicated blood, too, and and In short, a great deal of nonsense was on the end of my tongue, waiting my leave to slip off, when Laura said, "Didn't Lieutenant Herbert say he would bring you Darley's 'Margaret'?" "Yes, he is to bring it to-morrow. What a pretty name Clarence Herbert is! Lieutenant Clarence Herbert, there's a good name for you! How many pretty names there are!"
I sighed and said nothing. The name-fancies had gone by in long procession. America had buried them all, and stamped sternly on their graves. "What made you ask about Darley's 'Margaret, Laura?" "Oh, only I wanted to see it." "Don't you think," said I, suddenly reviving with a new idea, "that a portfolio of engravings is a handsome thing to have in one's parlor or library?
"Well, as it turned out, Mary was not in the least to blame it was all her father's fault at least his and old Darley's." It was necessary to say something so I said: "I always regarded Darley as a troublesome old thing." "So he was, but then they always had a great affection for him, although he had so many eccentricities.
But I've na' lads to keep thee company, only one sprig of a wench. Sylvia, come here, an let's show thee to this young fellow! Sylvia came forwards, ruddy as any rose, and in a moment Kinraid recognized her as the pretty little girl he had seen crying so bitterly over Darley's grave.
What would become of due subordination and loyalty, and the interests of the service, and the chances of beating those confounded French, if such conduct as Darley's was to be encouraged?
Why, she had thought he was grateful to her as a friend of his daughter; she had even pleased herself with the feeling that he liked her, in her humble place, as a woman of some cultivation and many sympathetic! points of relation with himself; but that he loved her, that this deep, fine nature, in a man so far removed from her in outward circumstance, should have found its counterpart in one whom life had treated so coldly as herself, that Dudley Venner should stake his happiness on a breath of hers, poor Helen Darley's, it was all a surprise, a confusion, a kind of fear not wholly fearful.
But Darley's dead as a door-nail; and there's to be such a burying of him as niver was seen afore i' Monkshaven, come Sunday. And now gi' us t' iron, wench, and let's lose no more time a-talking. 'It's noane loss o' time, said Daniel, moving himself heavily in his chair, to feel how helpless he was once more.
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