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"I believe I am speaking to my father's friend," she said; "my name is Helena Gracedieu." Here was one of the Minister's two "daughters"; and that one of the two as I discovered the moment I shook hands with her who was my friend's own child.
Eunice's base lover spoke first. Judging by the change in his voice, he must have seen something in my father's face that daunted him. Eunice heard it, too. "He's getting nervous," she whispered; "he'll forget to say the right thing at the right time." "Mr. Gracedieu," Philip began, "I wish to speak to you " Father interrupted him: "We are alone now, Mr. Dunboyne.
Slight as the noise of the fall was, it disturbed Mr. Gracedieu. He looked round vacantly. "I have been comforted by prayer," he told me. "The weakness of poor humanity has found strength in the Lord." He pointed to the portrait once more: "My hands must not presume to touch it, while I am still in doubt. Take it down."
"An innocent man," he sternly declared, "would have told me that my wife had been to see him you kept it a secret. An innocent woman would have given me a reason for wishing to go to you she kept it a secret, when she left my house; she kept it a secret when she came back." "Mr. Gracedieu, I insist on being heard! Your wife's motive " He drew from his pocket the thing that he had hidden from me.
There I saw the trees and flowerbeds of a garden, tempting me irresistibly under the cloudless sunshine of a fine day. I was on my way out, to recover heart and hope, when a knock at the door stopped me. Had Miss Jillgall returned? When I said "Come in," Mr. Gracedieu opened the door, and entered the room. He was so weak that he staggered as he approached me.
Meantime, night and morning they knelt side by side, their arms touched, sometimes their hands strayed and joined company. Then hers ended by resting where they were, as in a warm nest. Pray what more could a girl ask of the Christian faith? By sunset of the second day passed in this fashion they were before the great west front of Gracedieu Minster, knocking at the Mercy Door. It opened.
Might it not be, Come and find me?" "He is ah, he is ill?" "He is well." "In danger?" "I know of none." "I am to leave Gracedieu and come with you, ma'am?" "Yes. Are you afraid?" For answer Isoult fell flat down and kissed Maulfry's silver hem. "I will follow you to death!" she cried. Maulfry shivered, then arched her brows. "It will not be so bad as all that," she said.
I was so easily persuaded by her, that the fear of what Helena's jealousy and Helena's anger might do was scarcely present in my thoughts. The door of communication was locked on the side of the bedchamber. I went into the hall, to enter Philip's room by the other door. She followed, waiting behind me. I heard what passed between them when Maria went out to her. "Where is Miss Gracedieu?"
To wait for events with the too certain prospect of a vindictive betrayal of my indiscretion by Helena Gracedieu. Or to take the initiative into my own hands, and risk consequences which I might regret to the end of my life, by making my confession to the Minister. Before I had decided, somebody knocked at the door. It was the maid-servant again. Was it possible she had been sent by Helena?
Tenbruggen's hearing? I asked the attendant if he had been present while she was in the room. Yes; he had remained at his post; he had also heard the allusion to the place with the odd name. Had Mr. Gracedieu said anything more about that place? Nothing more; the poor Minister's mind had wandered off to other things. He was wandering now.
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