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Molly was too young to have any complication of motives which should prevent her going at once to try and give what comfort she could. In an instant she was kneeling at Mrs. Hamley's feet, holding the poor lady's hands, kissing them, murmuring soft words; which, all unmeaning as they were of aught but sympathy with the untold grief, did Mrs. Hamley good.
Hamley's face fell; she became a little pale. 'Shall we make arrangements for their stopping away while she is here; staying up at Cambridge, or reading with some one? going abroad for a month or two? 'No; you've been reckoning this ever so long on their coming home. I've seen the marks of the weeks on your almanack.
Osborne Hamley's acquaintance yet, said Mrs. Gibson, suddenly aware of a duty which might have been expected from her, 'and I must beg you to apologize to her for my remissness.
Kinglake had previously used it extensively. There is but a spark or two of new light in Sir Edward Hamley's more recent compendium. As the years roll on the number of survivors diminishes in an increasing ratio, nor does one hear of anything valuable left behind by those who fall out of the thinning ranks. The reader of the period, in default of any other authority, betakes himself to Kinglake.
'You're a great darling, child, said Mrs. Hamley, comforted by Molly's strong partisanship, unreasonable and ignorant though it was. 'And, besides, continued Molly, 'some one must be acting wrongly in Osborne's Mr. Osborne Hamley's, I mean I can't help saying Osborne sometimes, but, indeed, I always think of him as Mr. Osborne 'Never mind, Molly, what you call him; only go on talking.
His successor had plunged with energy into all manner of improvements; and among others he fell to draining a piece of outlying waste and unreclaimed land of Lord Cumnor's, which was close to Squire Hamley's property; that very piece for which he had had the Government grant, but which now lay neglected, and only half-drained, with stacks of mossy tiles, and lines of up-turned furrows telling of abortive plans.
At any rate she made Molly her confidante about her first-born. She sent her to ask Roger how soon he would come, for she seemed to know perfectly well that he was coming. 'Tell me all Roger says. He will tell you. But it was several days before Molly could ask Roger any questions; and meanwhile Mrs. Hamley's state had materially altered.
She made a faint rally back into her former playfulness. 'Why? can you deny it? Is it not the truth? 'I ask you again, Hyacinth, who told you that Osborne Hamley's life is in more danger than mine or yours? 'Oh, don't speak in that frightening way. My life is not in danger, I'm sure; nor yours either, love, I hope. He gave an impatient movement, and threw a wine-glass off the table.
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