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"My lady " the old man murmured unwillingly. "To me?" she questioned in a quiet, unmoved voice. "Why are you afraid of that?" Dimsdale hesitated. "Tell me," she said. But again her eyes had sunk to the fire. She seemed as one not vitally interested, as one whose thoughts were elsewhere.
Reformers like Dimsdale had drawn straight lines of purpose for the salvation of the country, and they had seen these straight lines go crooked under their very eyes, with a devilish smoothness.
Fancy any one being such a scounthrel as to lay a hand on that dear girl, though. Ged, Baumser, it makes ivery drop of blood in me body tingle in me veins!" "My dear vriend," Von Baumser answered, "it is very good of your blood for to tingle, but I do not see how dat will help the mees. Let us be practical, and make up our brains what we should do." "I must find young Dimsdale at once.
In Egypt Dimsdale made a reputation; not at once, but he did make it. The first two years of his stay he had plenty to do.
The major knew of a snug little corner not far off where he could have put in the time very comfortably, but he could not bring himself to desert his companion even for a minute. I have no doubt that that wait of two hours in the draughty station is marked up somewhere to the old sinner's credit account. Indeed, it was well that day that young Dimsdale had good friends at his back.
"Ah, well," she said, quietly interrupting, "you need not be afraid for me either. I shall not go downstairs again to-night. He will not be expecting me." "Very good, my lady." Dimsdale looked somewhat relieved but not wholly satisfied. He lingered as if he longed yet did not dare to say more. As for Anne, she sat quite motionless gazing into the fire, her hands clasped very tightly before her.
Large numbers of the more peaceable undergraduates stood about under the arches, and these quickly made a way for the newcomers, for both Garraway and Dimsdale as noted athletes commanded a respect among their fellow-students which medallists and honours men might look for in vain.
He did not speak again till Dimsdale came back with a tray, then again he exchanged a few murmured sentences with the old butler, who presently said, "Very good, sir," and went softly away. Then Lucas turned again to Anne. "Drink this," he said. "It will revive you." She groped for the glass he held towards her, but trembled so much that she could not take it.
In Egypt Dimsdale made a reputation; not at once, but he did make it. The first two years of his stay he had plenty to do.
And sure enough, two or three years afterward, we did hear him again. I find an account of the affair in the thrilling little book I quoted a paragraph from in the last chapter "The Vigilantes of Montana; being a Reliable Account of the Capture, Trial and Execution of Henry Plummer's Notorious Road Agent Band: By Prof. Thos. J. Dimsdale, Virginia City, M.T." Mr.
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