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More as if it were to satisfy herself than to credit him, she said, to the window and street beyond it, "I wonder that he didn't remember that you would never drag any one into notoriety whom you had once loved." Ingram grinned. "As your man Glyde tried to drag you, my dear! Well, that's one way of accounting for old Senhouse, certainly.
Plinth was the first to compose her features to an air of reassurance: after a moment's hasty adjustment her look almost implied that it was she who had given the word to Mrs. Ballinger. "Xingu, of course!" exclaimed the latter with her accustomed promptness, while Miss Van Vluyck and Laura Glyde seemed to be plumbing the depths of memory, and Mrs.
'I give her up, were the last words she said that I can remember; 'I give her up, ma'am, for lost. And from that she passed at once to her questions about Lady Glyde, wanting to know if she was a handsome, amiable lady, comely and healthy and young Ah, dear! I thought how it would end. Look, Miss Halcombe, the poor thing is out of its misery at last!" The dog was dead.
Sir Percival looked over her shoulder familiarly at the new card which had already transformed Miss Fairlie into Lady Glyde smiled with the most odious self-complacency, and whispered something in her ear. I don't know what it was Laura has refused to tell me but I saw her face turn to such a deadly whiteness that I thought she would have fainted.
Glyde was daring Ingram to bring in Sanchia's name, and Ingram could not do it. "And ?" said Glyde. "And by whom?" Ingram paused, biting his lips. He was pale. He took a long breath, and then said, "And by you, I have no doubt." "Thank you," Glyde said. Then he began again. "Did you ask me to fight with you?" "I believe I did." "And I refused?" "Yes," said Ingram, "you did."
These precautions enabled the coroner and jury to settle the question of identity, and to confirm the correctness of the servant's assertion; the evidence offered by competent witnesses, and by the discovery of certain facts, being subsequently strengthened by an examination of the dead man's watch. The crest and the name of Sir Percival Glyde were engraved inside it.
Before she comes here say nothing about her, if you please, to the doctor, because he will look with an evil eye on any nurse of my providing. When she appears in this house she will speak for herself, and Mr. Dawson will be obliged to acknowledge that there is no excuse for not employing her. Lady Glyde will say the same. Pray present my best respects and sympathies to Lady Glyde."
"Why," said that lady, glancing in turn at the other members, "as a community I hope it is not too much to say that we stand for culture." "For art " Miss Glyde eagerly interjected. "For art and literature," Mrs. Ballinger emended. "And for sociology, I trust," snapped Miss Van Vluyck. "We have a standard," said Mrs.
"Poor dear Percival!" cried Count Fosco, looking after him gaily, "he is the victim of English spleen. But, my dear Miss Halcombe, my dear Lady Glyde, do you really believe that crimes cause their own detection? And you, my angel," he continued, turning to his wife, who had not uttered a word yet, "do you think so too?"
If I opened Limmeridge House as an asylum to Lady Glyde, what security had I against Sir Percival Glyde's following her here in a state of violent resentment against ME for harbouring his wife? I saw such a perfect labyrinth of troubles involved in this proceeding that I determined to feel my ground, as it were.
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