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As I opened the door I heard her calling to me in a voice broken with sobs. 'Oh, Miss Garston, I have been longing for you to come to me; you have been here for hours. I have been lying listening to your footsteps overhead. Do you know, the suspense is killing me? 'Yes, I am so sorry for you, Phoebe: it is hard to bear, is it not? But I could not leave your sister.
Let me own that I distrusted you, Miss Garston. I have a horror of gush, and what I call the working mania of young ladies, and you had not proved to me then that you could work. At the present day, if a girl is restless and bad-tempered, and cannot get on with her own people, she takes up hospital-nursing, and a rare muddle she makes of it sometimes.
I daresay that was not Tudor's meaning at all; he is the most matter-of-fact fellow I know, and could not coin a compliment to save his life. Besides which, I expect he has found out by this time that it would be rather difficult to spoil Miss Garston. That cuts both ways, eh! looking at me rather mischievously.
'I am quite glad now that your rest was not disturbed. And then he went on looking at me with the same queer expression that his face had worn before. 'Do you know, Miss Garston, your remark quite startled me? Somehow I do not seem to recognise my nurse to-night. When I came into the drawing-room just now I thought there was a strange young lady sitting by Tudor.
Hamilton coolly: 'my friend Nathaniel and I are hard at work, as you see. Do you know anything of mathematics, Miss Garston? no, you shake your head I do not know what more he would have said, but I escaped with a quick good-night. As I went upstairs I made a resolution to avoid the kitchen in future: I might at any moment stumble upon Mr. Hamilton.
In this house I am only accountable to him. And I walked away with much dignity. But I knew I had been right when I saw Mr. Hamilton's face that evening, for he did not return until seven o'clock. He came up at once, and beckoned me into Lady Betty's room. 'Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Miss Garston, he said gratefully. 'You have spared me a wretchedly anxious day.
Garston has a dinner-engagement, and cannot attend to business until to-morrow morning. 'I am afraid you would like a dinner-engagement too, after your fourteen miles, I returned, in a sympathetic voice, for he did look very tired. 'We will give you some tea now, and then you can get rid of the dust of the journey, and by that time Mrs.
Hamilton looked rather scrutinising as he rose to give me his place. 'Your thoughts must be here, he said meaningly. 'Forgive me, if I give you that hint: do not forget Providence is watching over that other room. One duty at a time, Miss Garston. And, though I coloured at this wholesome rebuke, I knew he was correct.
He had resumed his usual manner; he told me he had had a letter that day that would oblige him to go to Edinburgh for a week or so. 'I think I shall take the night mail to-morrow evening, though it will give me a busy day: so, after all, I shall not miss you, Miss Garston. And after a little more talk about the business that had summoned him, we reached the White Cottage and he bade me good-bye.
'Perhaps Miss Garston will extend her cheering influence, Giles, observed Miss Darrell in her most staccato manner, 'and remain to supper. Leah will see her home. 'I am going to perform that office myself, Etta. Will you stay? looking at me in a friendly manner. 'Not to-night, I returned hurriedly; 'and, indeed, I can very well walk alone. But Mr.
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