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For been away mostly from his natural home here, young Faircloth has, ever since he was a little shaver. Mrs. Faircloth owns the Inn there and all the appurtenances thereof, sheds, cottages, boats, and suchlike, she does always had wonnerful high views for him.
Faircloth, who had followed her, put his elbows on the mantelshelf, and sinking his head somewhat between his shoulders, stared down at the burning logs too. "Ah! when you take that tone, I'm a little scared lest I should turn out to be the disappointment, the failure, in this high adventure of ours," he said under his breath.
For the first case, that of which Faircloth actually had spoken, brought her royal, if secret compensation in the brotherhood and sisterhood it made known. But this second case brought nothing, save a sense of being tricked and defrauded, the victim of a conspiracy of silence. For nothing, as it now appeared, was really her own, nor had really belonged to her.
"It was a stupid mistake, because he is away staying in Norfolk for partridge shooting, and I have not any real reason to expect him home for several days yet." "But in this deceptive light," Faircloth took her up again, while as she could not help observing that flicker became more pronounced. It seemed silently to laugh and to mock.
She turned about, fronting the perplexed and agitated congregation, her head carried high, her face austere for all its youthful softness, an heroic quality, something, indeed, superlative and grandiose in her bearing and expression, causing a shrinking in those who saw her and a certain sense of awe. Her eyes sought Faircloth again.
"Colonel Carteret gave them to me." "So I imagined. They are the exquisite fruit, aren't they, of the little expedition by train of two days ago?" Damaris' temper rose, but so did her protective instinct. For that journey to Marseilles, connected as it was with the dear secret of Darcy Faircloth, did not admit of investigation by Henrietta.
My heart bled for her, ma'am, that it did." Miss Felicia, gentle and eager, so pathetically resembling yet not resembling her famous brother, grew autocratic, stern as him almost, for once. "And you allowed Miss Damaris to leave church alone she felt unwell, I suppose none of you accompanied her? I don't understand it at all," she said. "Young Captain Faircloth went out with Miss Damaris.
"But this young Captain Faircloth, of whom you speak," she presently said, her mind taking one of its many inconsequent skippits "who so providentially came to the dearest child's assistance could he, I wonder, be the same really very interesting-looking young man I met in the drive, just now, when I came here?"
Whether from fatigue or from emotion, his expression was softer, his face less keen than usual, and the likeness between him and Darcy Faircloth proportionately and notably great. "No, my dear," he said, "why should I be angry? What conceivable right have I to be angry? As a man sows so does he reap.
"Steady there, please," Faircloth put in sharply. "It strikes me you take a good deal upon yourself. May I ask who you are?" "I am the assistant priest," Reginald began. But his explanation was cut short by piping voices. "It's Cap'en Darcy, that's who it is. We never meant no 'arm, Cap'en. That we didn't. The apples was rotting on the ground, s'h'lp me if they wasn't.
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