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'Then you have made up your mind? 'Yes. I shall speak to Mr. Dusautoy at once. 'And, she said, feeling for his sensitive shyness, 'no one else need know it at least 'I should not wish to conceal it from the children, he answered, with his scrupulous candour. He was supine when thought more ill of than he deserved, but he always defended himself from undeserved credit.
'Would that no one fell into worse scrapes, sighed Mr. Dusautoy, when he heard of Ulick's disasters with Hyder Ali, and it was a sigh that the house of Kendal re-echoed.
'Never mind, he said, affectionately; 'I do not wish to interfere with your authority, but it would be impossible to punish a child who has suffered so severely; and I neither choose that Dusautoy should be made to think himself the injured party, nor that Maurice should be put to the pain of apologizing for an offence, which the other party has taken on himself to cancel with interest.
Dusautoy, 'those things are just what one does get so much used to, that it seems much easier to bear them than to speak about them. 'But to let oneself be so driven about, cried Albinia. 'Oh! Sophy, you will never do so again! If I had ever guessed 'Please hush! Never mind! said Sophy, almost crossly, and getting up from the floor quickly, as though resolved to be well.
Dusautoy came to her side, and held out his hand, his honest eyes brimming over, there was no repulsion in her manner of saying affectionately, 'You have had a great deal of trouble for my naughty little brother. So different was her whole tone, that her kind friends thought how much better for some minds was any certainty than suspense.
Dusautoy busied in writing notes on mourning paper. 'Here is a note I had written to you, she said. 'I am sending over to Hadminster to see if any of the curates can take the services to-morrow. Albinia looked at the note while Mrs. Dusautoy wrote on hurriedly. She read that there could be no daily services at present, the Vicar having been summoned to Paris by the sudden death of Mrs.
'Indeed! you never told me you had hurt your back; and Albinia began describing the fall, and declaring there must be a sprain. 'Oh, no, said Sophy, 'kneeling always does it. 'Does what, my dear? said Albinia, sitting on the floor by her, and looking up to Mrs. Dusautoy, exceedingly frightened.
Cavendish Dusautoy was so dreadful when she talked of telling, that she did not know what would happen.
Dusautoy; and she went on more seriously to say that her gratitude was beyond expression, not merely for the actual help, though that was much, but for the sympathy, the first encouragement they had met among their richer parishioners, and she spoke of the refreshment of the mirthfulness and playful manner, so as to convince Winifred that they had neither died away nor been everywhere wasted.
Algernon Dusautoy, whose servant had met him, sauntered up to her as if nothing had happened, carelessly hoped all were well at Bayford, and, in spite of her exceeding coldness, talked on with perfect ease upon the chances of a war with Russia, and had given her three or four maxims, before Gilbert came up with the luggage van, with a bag in his hand, and a hurried bewildered manner, unable to meet her eye.
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