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"Yes, if he will," came hesitatingly from Miss McPherson, and the child continued: "And mamma?" "No, Heaven forbid!" was the response, spoken so decidedly that the restless hands were motionless, and into the blue eyes and about the sweet mouth there stole the troubled, half-grieved expression, which in after years became habitual to them. "Don't you like my mamma?" the child said.
Clemency remained away for a week. Then Gordon brought her home. She was at the dinner-table that night when James returned rather late from a call on a far-off patient. She simply said, "Good evening! Doctor Elliot," as if he had been the merest acquaintance, and went on to serve his soup. James gave her a bewildered, half-grieved, half-angered look, which she seemed not to notice.
"Oh, yes; I remember you perfectly," I answered, half-grieved to distress him, "though I shouldn't have known your name, and didn't expect to see you. You're the doctor who attended me in my first great illness the illness with which my present life began just after the murder." He drew back, a little crestfallen. "Then that's all you recollect, is it?" he asked.
I said to myself: 'The baron, who always has money at his disposal, will no doubt let me have the use of five thousand louis for a year." The baron's eyes were fixed upon his companion's face. "Zounds!" he exclaimed in a half-grieved, half-petulant tone; "I haven't the amount!" It was not disappointment that showed itself on the marquis's face; it was absolute despair, quickly concealed.
This was said without the slightest appearance of any other feeling than a gentle request. I was surprised, and scarce knew what to make of it; at first, I refused to take the box. "I hope I have done nothing to merit this, Lucy?" I said, half-affronted, half-grieved.
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