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Baffled in this, they bade Gresley, the messenger, to return with them as far as Irun, as they wished him to bear to the king a letter written on Spanish soil. No great distance farther brought them to the small river Bidassoa, the Rubicon of their journey. It formed the boundary between France and Spain.
The Bishop and Regie looked hard at each other. "I send my love to Auntie Hester," said Regie, in his catechism voice, "and I am quite well." "I should like to have some conversation with Regie alone," said the Bishop. Mrs. Gresley wavered, but the Bishop's eye remained fixed on Mr. Gresley, and the latter led his wife away. The door was left ajar, but the Bishop closed it.
A storm of applause followed, which was perhaps all the heartier by reason of the furious face of Mr. Gresley. Dick was clapped continuously as he descended the platform and slowly left the room, feeling in his pockets for his tobacco-pouch. A squad of young men creaked out after him, and others followed by twos and threes, so that the mellifluous voice of Mr.
"She makes trouble for herself by saying things like that. Is Lady Newhaven in the drawing-room?" "Yes, I heard her singing 'The Lost Chord' not ten minutes ago." "I will go up to her," said Rachel. "I do believe," said Lord Newhaven, when Rachel had departed, "that she has an affection for Miss Gresley." "It is not necessary to be a detective in plain clothes to see that," said Dick. "No.
He began on his deepest organ note, but it quavered quite away on the word relief for want of wind. "How is Regie?" said the Bishop. It was his turn to be anxious. "Regie is verr vell," said Fräulein, with decision. "Tell her he is so vell as he vas." "He is very much shaken," said Mrs. Gresley, indignant mother-love flashing in her wet eyes.
And when I went in again she was in bed, and she was so sleepy she hardly said anything at all." Mr. Gresley came in wearily and dropped into a chair. Mrs. Gresley gave him his tea, and presently took Regie up-stairs. Then she came back and sat down in a low chair close to her husband. It was the first drop of comfort in Mr. Gresley's cup to-day. "How is Hester?" "According to Dr.
Gresley made a superhuman effort "I will come and nurse her myself, but I won't have Regie frightened a second time." "He shall not be frightened a second time. But it is very urgent. While we are wasting time talking, Hester's life is ebbing away as surely as if she were bleeding to death. If she were actually bleeding in this room how quickly you two would run to her and bind up the wound.
I feel she always drags us down." Mr. Gresley was too much absorbed in his own thoughts to notice the diffident plea which his wife was putting forward that Hester might cease to live with them. "I was not thinking of that," he said, "so much as of this novel which she has written. It is a profane, immoral book, and will do incalculable harm if it is published." "I feel sure it will," said Mrs.
She had fallen into a deep sleep in the low window-seat, with her pale forehead against the pane; a sleep so deep that even the alarum of the baby did not rouse her, nor the entrance of Emma with the hot water. "James," said Mrs. Gresley, an hour later; as she and her husband returned through the white mist from early celebration, "Hester was not there. I thought she had promised to come."
"I will walk up to Beaumere this afternoon," said Doll, stretching a leg outside the open end of the pew. "I wish Gresley would not call the Dissenters worms. They are some of my best tenants, and they won't like it when they hear of it. And I'll go round the young pheasants.
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