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"Miss Hernshaw," he demanded, solemnly, "do you really like people to say what they think?" "Of course I do!" "Then I wish you would come to St. Johnswort with me!" "Would that do?" she asked. "If Mrs. Rock " He saw how far she was from taking his meaning, but he pushed on. "I don't want Mrs. Rock. I want you you alone. Don't you understand me? I love you. I of course it's ridiculous!
But if he went and told her that he had done it, how much better for him would that be? He took a long, unhappy walk up into the Park, and then he walked back to the Walholland. By this time he thought Mrs. Rock and Miss Hernshaw must have been to church, but he had not the courage to send up his name to them.
Rock came smoothly forth, with her vague eyes wandering over every other object in the room, till they rested upon Hewson, directly before her. Then she gave him her hand, and asked, with a smile, as if taking him into the joke. "Well, has Rosalie had it out with you?" "I have had it out with him, Mrs. Rock," Miss Hernshaw answered, "and I will tell you all about it later.
It seemed like breaking faith with Miss Hernshaw, too, though this impression would have been harder to reason than the other.
It would have been no penalty for me to buy St. Johnswort. My father wouldn't have minded it." She blushed suddenly, and added, "I don't mean that You may be so rich that I think I had better stop." "No, no!" said Hewson, amused, and glad of the relief. "Go on. I will tell you anything you wish to know." "I don't wish, to know anything," said Miss Hernshaw, haughtily.
Sinfi gazed at it silently, then she said: 'This is the very place where Winnie wonst tried to save a hernshaw as wur wounded. She wur tryin' to ketch hold on it, as the water wur carryin' it along, and he pretty nigh beat her to death wi' his wings for her pains.
They offered him a fresh temptation through the different perversions of the fact that had got commonly abroad, but he resisted this temptation, and let the perversions, sometimes annoyingly, sometimes amusingly, but always more and more wildly, wide of the reality, take their course. In his reticence he had the sense of atoning not only to the apparition but to Miss Hernshaw too.
"It was cabled to their London edition that's what it said in the paper; and by this time they must have it in Australia," said Miss Hernshaw, with unrelieved severity. "Oh!" said Hewson, giving himself time to realize that he was the psychical hero of two hemispheres. "Well," he resumed "what do you expect me to say?" "I don't know what I expect.
"I, Septimus Charlton, of Hernshaw Castle and Bolton Grange, in the County of Cumberland, Esquire, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, thanks be to God, do make this my last will and testament, as follows: "First, I commit my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth from which it came.
"Not at all," said Hewson, with what seemed to him afterwards superfluous politeness, and then they both waited until he could formulate his business, Miss Hernshaw drooping forward, and looking down in a way that he had found was most characteristic of her. "It is something important at least it is important to me.
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