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Hence Gwendolen had been all ear to Lord Brackenshaw's mode of accounting for Grandcourt's non-appearance; and when he did arrive, no consciousness not even Mrs. Arrowpoint's or Mr. Gascoigne's was more awake to the fact than hers, although she steadily avoided looking toward any point where he was likely to be.
In the evening the family were all gathered together in their accustomed place, round Christian's new piano in the drawing-room; for, since Miss Gascoigne's departure, she had earned out her own pleasure in a long contested domestic feud, and persisted in using the drawing-room every night.
I was the poor man's friend, not his murderer. I tried hard to save him, but, unhappily, I was too late." "You will not confess?" A flush of anger rose to Gascoigne's cheek; his eyes flashed with the indignation he felt at being thus bullied and browbeaten; his lips quivered, but still he made no reply.
Grandcourt would see Gwendolen at the next Archery Meeting; though Mrs. Gascoigne's mind was very likely still more active in the same direction. She had said interjectionally to her sister, "It would be a mercy, Fanny, if that girl were well married!" to which Mrs.
It was not a word in Miss Gascoigne's dictionary. But she looked with a certain tenderness at the fond little woman who had loved her, borne with her, never in the smallest degree resisted her since they were girls together.
In the meantime, Gascoigne, who expected a breeze, had been cautioning Jack, in a low tone, at intervals, when Captain Tartar's back was turned: but it was useless; the extra quantity of wine had got into Jack's head, and he cared nothing for Gascoigne's remonstrance.
The judge got up from his chair, and disappeared through a side-door. After a short pause, Gascoigne's escort bade him march, and the three followed through the same door. They entered a second chamber, smaller than the first, the uses of which were at once obvious to Gascoigne, although he had never been there before.
The party then retired to bed, and the next morning, while Easy was in Gascoigne's room talking over their suspicions, letters from Palermo were brought up to him.
Don Philip was standing by: he called the men to pick up our two scamps, carried them into the barracks, and sent for the surgeons, who undressed them, put Jack's left leg into a multitude of splints, and did the same to Gascoigne's arm.
"And I am sure my brother never looks so happy as when she is beside him," said Aunt Maria. "We shall quite enjoy seeing them both together to-night." "And I only wish it had been my good fortune to join such a pleasant family party," observed Sir Edwin Uniacke. It was rather too broad a hint, presuming even upon Miss Gascoigne's large courtesy.
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