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Thomasin was at that moment burning a feather under her nose, but she stopped and withdrew it as the girl's eyes opened. "Theer, now you'll be well by night. He've gone aboard. Best to change your gownd, for 'tis wetted. Then I'll tell 'e what 'er said. Can 'e get upstairs?" Joan rose slowly and went with swimming brain to her room. She still held her picture and her money.
Now, look you here, my dear you blessed weepin' pet the man that could see ye with that hair of yours there in ruins, and he backed by the law, and not rush into your arms and hold ye squeezed for life, he ain't got much man in him, I say; and no one can say that of my babe! I was sayin', look here, to comfort ye oh, why, to be sure he've got some surprise for ye. And so've I, my lamb! Hark, now!
We heard it come upstairs, draw near along the corridor, pause at the door, and a stealthy and hasty rapping succeeded. 'Mr. Anne Mr. Anne, sir! Let me in! said the voice of Rowley. We admitted the lad, and locked the door again behind him. 'It's HIM, sir, he panted. 'He've come. 'You mean the Viscount? said I. 'So we supposed. But come, Rowley out with the rest of it!
He then went to the half-opened door of the room where Lucy slept, leaned his ear a moment, knocked gently, and entered. Mrs. Berry heard low words interchanging within. She could not catch a syllable, yet she would have sworn to the context. "He've called her his daughter, promised her happiness, and given a father's kiss to her." When Sir Austin passed out she was in a deep sleep.
"And him sailing her in from Blackhead close round the Manacles, in half a capful o' wind an' the tides lookin' fifty ways for Sunday! That's what he've a-done, for the weather lifted while we was hauling trammel anyways east of south a man could see clear for three mile and more, an' not a vessel in sight there.
"Dear mama," I prayed, "there's something wrong along o' the man who come the night you died. He've managed somehow t' get wonderful sick. I'm not knowin' what ails un, or where he cotched it; but I sees it plain in his face: an' 'tis a woeful sickness. Do you make haste t' the throne o' God, please, mum, an' tell Un I been askin' you t' have un cured.
The murmur of voices, too, which the woman overheard, betokened a close conversation, in which the familiar drawl of the windmiller's dialect blended audibly with that kind of clean-clipt speaking peculiar to gentlefolk. "He've been talking to master's five minute an' more," muttered the miller's wife. "What can 'ee want with un?"
In the first place, I daren't go home; that's where he'll be watchin' for me sooner or later. Next, our plans ain't laid for startin' straight off here as we be an' givin' him the go-by. Third an' last, I daren't go carryin' the secret about with me; he might happen on me any moment, an' I'm not in trainin'. The drink's done for me, boy, whereas he've been farin' hard an' livin' clean."
I been watchin', an' he've never come while I wakes an' I'm wonderin' an' wonderin'." "No not while we sleeps no I'm not knowin'," and then she buried her face in Emily's pillow and wept. "Bob's knowin', mother, how we longs t' see he," continued Emily, as she stroked her mother's hair, "an' he'd sure be comin' if he were killed. He'd sure be doin' that so we could see un.
Perhaps you don't know that we've a doctor living here now Mr. Fitzpiers by name?" Grace admitted that she had not heard of him. "Well, then, miss, he's come here to get up a practice. I know him very well, through going there to help 'em scrub sometimes, which your father said I might do, if I wanted to, in my spare time. Being a bachelor-man, he've only a lad in the house.
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