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Dawney?" Greta took back the piece of paper, and replied: "I said: "'DEAR DR. EDMUND, We are anxious about Herr Harz. We think he is perhaps not very well to-day. You can tell us. Please shall you? "That is what I said." Christian dropped her eyes. "What made you write?" Greta gazed at her mournfully: "I thought O Chris! come into the garden. I am so hot, and it is so dull without you!"
His eyes opened once more, rested on her, and passed beyond, into that abyss dividing youth from age, conviction from conviction, life from death. At the foot of the bed Dawney stood covering his face; behind him Dominique knelt with hands held upwards; the sound of Greta's breathing, soft in sleep, rose and fell in the stillness. One afternoon in March, more than three years after Mr.
On the way back neither spoke a word, but when they reached the Villa, Harz took her hand, and said: "Fraulein Christian, I can't do any more with your picture. I shan't touch it again after this." She made no answer, but they looked at each other, and both seemed to ask, to entreat, something more; then her eyes fell. He dropped her hand, and saying, "Good-night," ran after Dawney.
I wouldn't have had this happen for a hundred thousand pounds! For many hours after Dawney had taken him to his hotel, Harz was prostrate with stunning pains in the head and neck. He had been all day without food, exposed to burning sun, suffering violent emotion. Movement of any sort caused him such agony that he could only lie in stupor, counting the spots dancing before, his eyes.
Treffry broke out with a husky whisper: "Out with it, Doctor; don't humbug me." Dawney bent down, and took his wrist. "I don't know how you've got into this state, sir," he said with the brusqueness of emotion. "You're in a bad way. It's the old trouble; and you know what that means as well as I. All I can tell you is, I'm going to have a big fight with it.
Dawney smiled; the features of his broad, clean-shaven face looked ridiculously small on such occasions, but his eyes retained their air of calculation. "That is so," he answered. "It is about this unfortunate affair. I understand that Mr. Harz is with you. I want you to use your influence to dissuade him from attempting to see my niece." "Influence!" said Dawney; "you know Harz!" Mrs.
I'll come back with you to-morrow." "Let me send for Dr. Dawney, Uncle?" "No no! Plenty of him when I get home. Very good young fellow, as doctors go, but I can't stand his puddin's slops and puddin's, and all that trumpery medicine on the top. Send me Dominique, my dear I'll put myself to rights a bit!" He fingered his unshaven cheek, and clutched the gown together on his chest.
"There is, no doubt, a man," put in Sarelli. Herr Paul muttered: "Who knows?" "What is B -going to do?" said Dawney. "Ah!" said Herr Paul. "He is fond of her. He is a chap of resolution, he will get her back. He told me: 'Well, you know, I shall follow her wherever she goes till she comes back. He will do it, he is a determined chap; he will follow her wherever she goes." Mr.
After a long morning's sitting the girls had started forth with Harz and Dawney to spend the afternoon at the ruin; Miss Naylor, kept at home by headache, watched them depart with words of caution against sunstroke, stinging nettles, and strange dogs. Since the painter's return Christian and he had hardly spoken to each other.
John Thorndyke rode at a gallop down to Reigate, and first called on the head constable. "Dawney," he said, as the man came down, partially dressed, at his summons, "has anything taken place during the night?" "Yes, Squire, the up coach was stopped a mile before it got here, and the passengers robbed. It was due here at one, and did not come in till half an hour later. Of course I was sent for.
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