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'I will just mend your fire, for it is getting low, and put these flowers in water, and then I will bid you good-night. 'You are vexed with me for being rude, she said, almost timidly. 'I told Susan to send you away, because I could not bear any more talk. You made me so unhappy yesterday, Miss Garston.
'Miss Garston, will you please tell him that there is no need, no need at all? indeed, I would much rather not. Miss Hamilton had lost all her repose of manner; she looked as nervous and shy as any school-girl when Max announced his intention of escorting her; and yet how could any gentleman have allowed her to go down those dark roads alone?
'Don't trouble yourself Miss Garston: I am quite as anxious as yourself that Giles's mind should be put at rest. He has had worry enough, poor fellow. I was rather surprised and disappointed when, ten minutes afterwards, I heard the hall door close, and, hurrying to a window, I saw Mr. Hamilton walking very quickly in the direction of Maplehurst.
Hamilton used to shake his head over her tardy progress, and tell her that she was a very unsatisfactory patient, and that he had expected to cure her long before this. 'If it were not for you and my dear Miss Garston, I should never be lying here now, she returned gratefully.
As I warmed to my subject, and praised her beauty and gentleness and intelligence, she sighed still more. 'Yes, she is a dear girl, a dear good girl; but she has never been the same since Eric went. Does she talk to you about Eric, Miss Garston? Etta says she talks of nothing else to her.
Both had the indescribable well-groomed, freshly bathed look peculiar to Englishmen of the "upper ten." "Ha! Errington! I didn't know you were in town. I thought you were cruising somewhere with Melford, or rusticating at Garston Hall. I think your father expected you about this time." "I don't think so. I was summoned by telegraph from Paris. My father was seized with a paralysis last week.
She gave an exclamation of pleasure at seeing me, and ran towards me with outstretched hands. She looked like a child in her little white gown and blue ribbons, with her short curly hair. 'I am so glad to see you, Miss Garston! I thought Etta would keep you, I have been alone all the afternoon: Etta never sits with me now. How I wish Gladys would come back!
I suppose I am rather a depressing element in the house, and, as I get rather tired of all this fuss, I think it will be better to leave it behind for a little. 'That sounds as though you were driven away from home, Miss Hamilton. 'Miss Hamilton! reproachfully; 'that is naughty, Ursula. I do not call you Miss Garston. 'Gladys, then.
'Speak the truth, and say you hate him, and God forgive you your sin. But it is a greater one than Robert has committed against you. 'How dare you say such things to me, Miss Garston? trying to free her hands; but still I held them fast. 'You will make me hate you next. I am not a pleasant-tempered woman. 'If you do, I will promise you forgiveness beforehand.
Hamilton. 'Again I say I am not inquisitive, but I mean to know this. Mrs. Maberley had been crying. I could see the tears in her eyes. You looked inclined to cry too, Miss Garston. Now, after a moment's hesitation, as though he found speech rather difficult, 'I know the dear old lady has only one fault.
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