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Colonel Vavasour never allowed a day to elapse without visiting the invalid; and in the regiment, his illness excited great commiseration, and drew forth many expressions of kindness. "Oh God! oh God!" said Delme, "he must not sink thus. Just as I am with him just as oh, poor Emily! what will she feel? Can nothing he done, Mr. Graham?" "Nothing!
Nearer to the spectator, the flickering lights of the detached villas, and the moving ones of the carriages in the public road, relieved the stillness of the scene. Delme paused to regard it, with that subdued feeling with which men, arrived at a certain period of life, scan the aspect of nature. The moon at the moment was enveloped in light clouds.
While this large assemblage increased the gaiety of the scene, it was somewhat wearisome to Delme, who was too truly attached to his sister, to be otherwise than thoughtful during the ceremony, and the breakfast that succeeded it.
When Sir Henry Delme was announced, Julia was alone in the drawing-room. At that name, she attempted to rise from the sofa; but she was weak, and her head fell back on the white pillow. Delme stood for a moment irresolute, a prey to the deepest pangs of remorse. Well might he be shocked at that altered form!
Vernon quite did away with any alarm that Sir Henry might otherwise have felt. Delme attended Lord Hill's levee; and immediately afterwards proceeded to his friend's office. To his disappointment, he was informed that his friend had left for Bath; and thinking it essential that he should see him; he went thither at an early hour the following day.
The Doctor rose to take leave, Sir Henry witnessed his departure with lively satisfaction; and, with the exception of enjoying a hearty laugh, at his expense, with George and Acme, ceased to recollect that such a personage existed. Delme, however, had cause to remember that Doctor Pormont. Were it not so, he would not have figured in these pages.
He was accompanied by a boy, also drest in sacerdotal robes, in one hand bearing a silver-ornamented staff, of the kind frequently used in processions, and in other observances of the Catholic religion; and in the other, a rude lanthorn, whose light enabled Delme to note these particulars.
He thought of Emily of George of Acme, and felt that he was becoming an isolated being. And had he not loved too? As this thought crossed him, his ambitious dreams were almost forgotten. Sir Henry Delme was aroused by the sound of voices. A loving couple, too much engaged to observe him, passed close to the summer-house.
"Nothing more easy than to supply their place, by promoting some of our oldest sergeants," observed Ensign Delme, who, as well as the ill-fated Murphy, had risen from the ranks. "If they behave themselves well, the King will confirm their appointments." "But my poor brother, what of him, Lawson? what have you learnt connected with his disappearance?" asked Charles de Haldimar with deep emotion.
Delme was pleased to observe, for it corresponded with what he had heard of the man; that, with the exception of the chef d'oeuvres of the English and German poets, the Colonel's library, which was an extensive one, almost wholly consisted of such books as immediately related to military subjects, or might be able to bear on some branch of science connected with military warfare.
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