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Jan was too good-natured to tell Deerham those teeth were false, though Dr. West had betrayed the secret to Jan. "Who's it for?" asked Jan. "For you? Aren't you well, Miss Deb? Eat some breakfast; that's the best thing." "I have had a dreadful shock, Mr. Jan. I have had bad news. That is what has been done to the surgery?" she broke off, casting her eyes around it in wonder. "Not much," said Jan.
Lionel and his bride were expected momentarily, and the company of all grades formed themselves into groups as they awaited them. They had been married in London some ten days ago, where Sir Henry Tempest had remained, after quitting Deerham with Lucy. The twelvemonth had been allowed to go by consequent to the death of Sibylla. Lionel liked that all things should be done decorously and in order.
Roy who was standing now, his elbow leaning on the gate brought his face nearer to Tynn's. Tynn was also leaning on the gate. "Have you heered of this ghost that's said to be walking about Deerham?" he asked, lowering his voice to a whisper. "Have you heered whose they say it is?" Now, Tynn had heard. All the retainers, male and female, at Verner's Pride had heard.
I think a good, true, faithful-natured man should be depended on for cure, more certainly than one who is false-natured." "False-natured!" echoed Lionel. "Lucy, you should not so speak of Dr. West. You know nothing wrong of Dr. West. He is much esteemed among us at Deerham." "Of course I know nothing wrong of him," returned Lucy, with some slight surprise.
"Who has she gone with?" "With the rest from Deerham. They have gone off in the night. That Brother Jarrum and a company of about five-and-twenty, they say." Jan could scarcely keep from exploding into laughter. Part of Deerham gone off to join the Mormons! "Is it a fact?" cried he. "It is a fact that they are gone," replied Mrs. Baynton.
The girl, Alice, has seen the ghost, or fancied that she saw it, and was terrified, literally, out of her senses." "How is she going on?" asked Mr. Bitterworth. "Physically, do you mean, sir?" "No, I meant morally, Jan. If all accounts are true, the girl has been losing herself." "Law!" said Jan. "Deerham has known that this many a month past. I'd try and stop it, if I were Lionel."
He swung open the kitchen door just in time to hear the church bells burst out with a loud and joyous peal. It surprised Roy. In quiet Deerham, such sounds were not very frequent. "What's up now?" cried Roy savagely. Not that the abstract fact of the bells ringing was of any moment to him, but he was in a mood to be angry with everything.
In London I shall have my hands full, and can rub off the rust of old grievances with hard work." "You will not like London better than Deerham." "I shall like it ten thousand times better," impulsively answered Lionel. "I have no longer a place in Deerham, Lucy. That is gone." "You allude to Verner's Pride?"
Sibylla Verner sat at the window of her sitting-room in the twilight a cold evening in early winter. Sibylla was in an explosive temper. It was nothing unusual for her to be in an explosive temper now; but she was in a worse than customary this evening. Sibylla felt the difference between Verner's Pride and Deerham Court. She lived but in excitement; she cared but for gaiety.
And yet she would have been puzzled to tell the meaning of the expression, for it did not look like a threatening one. Had Lionel Verner turned up Clay Lane, upon leaving Matthew Frost's cottage, instead of down it, to take a path across the fields at the back, he would have encountered the Vicar of Deerham.
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