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Ah, if she had been of one mind with lord Gartley, those poor creatures would be now moaning in darkness by the dead body of their child, or out with it in their arms in the streets, or parted asunder in the casual wards of some workhouse!
"I tell you honestly," continued Hester, "I love lord Gartley so well that I would gladly yield my life to do him any worthy good." "It is easy to talk," said Miss Vavasor to herself. "Not that that is saying much," Hester went on, "for I would do that to redeem any human creature from the misery of living without God.
Anything beyond a little easy benevolence would be impossible to the wife of lord Gartley! That she should contemplate the pursuit of her former objects with even greater freedom and devotion than before, would have seemed to him a thing utterly incredible. And Hester would have been equally staggered to find he had so failed to understand her after the way she had opened her heart to him.
I would even marry lord Gartley I think I would, after what has passed if only I knew that he would not try to prevent me from being the woman I ought to be and have to be; perhaps I would I am not clear about it just at this moment: never, if I were married to him, would I be so governed by him that he should do that! But who would knowingly marry for strife and debate?
When it was safely bestowed, Cockatoo who was as cunning as the devil, according to his master returned to the bedroom, and unlocked the door. He afterwards passed a string through the joining of the upper and lower windows, and managed to shut the snib. Afterwards he came to the boat and rowed it back to Gartley.
"A note came from the landlord of the inn this morning, saying that by direction of Mr. Bolton that is Sidney, you know he was sending the mummy in its case to Gartley on a lorry, and that it would arrive at three o'clock this afternoon." "Well?" asked Hope, still puzzled. "Well?" she rejoined impatiently.
He would have been quite content I should remain for ever the poor creature I am would never by word, or wish, or prayer, have sought to raise me above myself! The man I shall love as I could love must be a greater man than lord Gartley! He is not fit to make any woman love him so. If she were so much less than he as to have to look up to him, she would be too small to have any devotion in her.
Lucy was not surprised, as she was accustomed to Braddock's vagaries. Meanwhile Don Pedro, comfortably established at the Warrior Inn, wandered about Gartley in his dignified way, taking very little interest in the village, but a great deal in the Pyramids. As the Professor was absent, Lucy could not ask him to dinner, but she did invite him and Donna Inez to afternoon tea.
Gartley could keep up its reputation in this respect along with the best, therefore it was little to be wondered at, that early next morning every one knew that Professor Braddock had found his long-lost mummy in Mrs. Jasher's garden, and had removed the same to the Pyramids without unnecessary delay.
"When the master comes he will stop a good deal," thought Hester, but she did not say it. She could not allude to such things without at least a possibility of response. "You and Gartley had a small misunderstanding, he tells me, the last time you met," continued Miss Vavasor, after a short pause. "I think not," answered Hester; "at least I fancy I understood him very well."
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