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The other day I had to look something up in his diary for him, and not till then did I find out how terribly he must have taxed his strength. On an average he got one night's rest in the week, on the others he slept as well as he could in the long cars, which are wretchedly uncomfortable; the sleeping cars being expensive, he wouldn't go in them." Mrs. Fane-Smith sighed.
The elders, too, liked her, and were not oblivious to the fact that she was the daughter of an earl, and the widow of a distinguished general. Erica had seen her more than once during her visit, and had been introduced to her by Mrs. Fane-Smith, as "my niece." Now it happened that Mr. And Mrs. Fane-Smith and Rose were to dine with Lady Caroline the week after Erica's arrival.
"But that he should have died ignorant like this!" exclaimed Mr. Fane-Smith with a shudder. "'Tis in truth a tragedy," said Donovan, sighing. "But I can well believe that in another world the barriers which he allowed to distort his vision will be removed; the very continuance of existence would surely be sufficient." "You are a universalist?" said Mr.
'I have suffered him these hundred years, was the Lord's reproof, 'though he dishonored Me, and couldst thou not endure him for one night? I am sorry to distress you, but I must do what I know to be right. "Don't talk to me of right," exclaimed Mr. Fane-Smith with a shudder. "You are wilfully putting your blaspheming father before Christ. But I see my words are wasted. Let me pass!
"I am really quite unhappy about Rose!" she exclaimed. "We must send for Doctor L . Her cough seems so much worse, I fear it will turn to bronchitis. Are you learned in such things?" "I helped to nurse Tom through a bad attack once," said Erica. "Oh! Then come and see her," said Mrs. Fane-Smith. Erica went without a word. She would not have liked Mrs.
On the very day of the dinner party, however, Rose was laid up with a bad cold, and her mother was obliged to write and make her excuses. Late in the afternoon there came in reply one of Lady Caroline's impulsive notes. "Dear Mrs. Fane-Smith, Scold that silly daughter of yours for catching cold; give her my love, and tell her that I was counting on her very much.
Fane-Smith colored deeply, partly at the idea of her mother's lace being taken to a pawnbroker's, partly to hear that her brother and sister had ever been reduced to such straits. She made an excuse to take Erica away to her room, and there questioned her more than she had yet done about her home. "I thought your father was so strong," she said. "Yet you speak as if he had had several illnesses."
"Why mamma, if she were a black unbeliever you would be delighted to have her; it is only because she is white that you won't have anything to do with her. You would have been as pleased as possible if I had made friends with any of the ladies in the Zenanas." Mrs. Fane-Smith looked uncomfortable, and murmured that that was a very different question.
Fane-Smith would have been dismayed if any one could have shown him that all his life he had been struggling to suppress unbelief by what was infinitely worse than sincere unbelief denunciation often untrue, always unjust, invariably uncharitable.
"Are you ready?" said her father. "Then come at once." "Let me at least say goodbye, papa," said Rose, very angry at being forced to make this undignified and, as she rightly felt, rude exit. "Come at once," said Mr. Fane-Smith in an inexorable voice. As he left the room he turned and bowed stiffly. "Go down and open the door for them, Tom," said Raeburn, who throughout Mr.
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