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Updated: June 13, 2025
At length the time came when Emily could escape from the gay throng; and endeavour, in the quiet of her own room, to be once more calm, before she prepared to leave her much-loved home. The preparations made, a note was despatched to her brother, begging him to meet her in the library. As he did so, a fresh pang shot through Delme's heart.
A sentry was slowly pacing the court, and gave Delme the necessary directions for finding George's room. Delme's hand was on the latch, but he paused for a moment ere he pressed it, for he pictured to himself his brother lying on the bed of sickness. This temporary irresolution soon gave way to the impulse of affection, and he hastily entered the chamber.
As Sir Henry approached, they evinced involuntary confusion; and the vetturino -at once unmanned fell on his knees, and commenced a confession. They were dragged into the inn, and the officers of justice were sent for. Sir Henry Delme's anxious regards were now directed to his brother. George had taken a seat near the corpse; and was sternly regarding it with fixed, steady, and unflinching gaze.
But not on the desert nor on the mountains nor in the land of the Moslem -nor on tempestuous seas nor in those verdant islets, which seem to breathe of Paradise, to greet the wearied traveller; could Delme's restless spirit find an abiding place, his thirst for foreign travel be slaked, or his heart know peace. He madly sought oblivion, which could not be accorded him. The Wanderer.
On Delme's arrival in town, he prosecuted with energy his enquiries as to his brother. He called on the regimental agents, who could give him no information.
He was a man of most refined manners, and a cultivated intellect, and his professional familiarity with horrors, had not diminished his natural delicacy of feeling. His narrative was briefly thus: George Delme's bosom companion had been an officer of his own age and standing in the service, with whom he had embarked when leaving England. Their intercourse had ripened into the closest friendship.
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