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Then he smiled again his old, sweet smile, and said: "Yes, you are all right, for, of all flowers I have seen, none are fairer or sweeter than those that are waving in Gwen's Canyon."
She got her glasses on, with Gwen's help, and read. The word "cistern" was obscure. She quite understood what followed, saying: "Oh, yes so much longer ago than Dolly's birthday! And we did we did think we were dead and buried. The darling boy!" "He means each thought the other was. I told him." Gwen saw that the old face looked happy, and was pleased.
It was a great day and a good day for her when she fished The Sky Pilot out of the Swan and brought him home, and the night of Gwen's first "prayers," when she heard for the first time the story of the Man of Nazareth, was the best of all her nights up to that time.
No such tears had yet fallen from Gwen's eyes as these that mixed with this old woman's, the convict's relict the convict's mother from Sapps Court. An effort against herself, to choke them back, and an ignominious failure! A short breakdown, another effort, and a success! Gwen rose above herself, morally triumphant.
"Your ladyship knows best," she said. "You think, perhaps," said Gwen, "that it would only give her needless pain to know it now, when she has nothing to gain by it?" "Yes that is right." That was said as though Gwen's question had worded a thought the speaker herself had found hard to express. "Has she nothing to gain by it?
Gwen, who had not been immaculate herself, was her cruellest enemy, never losing an opportunity of inflicting a sting upon her helpless victim, whose presence in the household she had always resented. The day following Gwen's sneering remark, Valmai took her daily walk to Abersethin post-office. The old man beamed at her over his counter. "Letter come at last, miss," he said.
"After the terrible news, your Aunt Gwen's health failed, and she lost interest in everything; finally after the death of your uncle Harry, she went into a complete melancholy, and retired to the seclusion of the tower room, with an attendant. In all of these seven years since the tragedy, she has remained there; only at night sometimes, she wanders around the old gardens.
Gwen thought a moment whether anything would be gained by clearing up this confusion. Old Maisie's belief in "Uncle Nicholas's" death by drowning, fifty years ago, clung to her mind, as a portion of a chaotic past no visible surrounding challenged. It was quite negligible that was Gwen's decision. She held her tongue. But nothing of the Chaos was negligible.
Prichard to this here Towels, or Towers, accordin' as we call it. And, as I make it out, she'll keep her there till so be as Mr. Bartlett gets through the repairs. Or she'll send her back to a lodgin'; or not, as may be. Either, or eye-ther." Having thus, as it were, saturated his speech with freedom of alternative, Uncle Mo dismissed the subject, in favour of Gwen's beauty.
If the little dolly figures had only possessed faculties, they would have wondered why, after all these years, they were awakening such an interest among the big movable creatures outside the glass. How they would have wondered at Gwen's next words: "And those two have lived to be eighty years old and are in the next room!" Then she was not sure she had not made matters worse.
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