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"Shock may have had a little to do with it," he answered doubtfully. "And how long must he be kept off business?" "I'm afraid there's not much chance of him doing any more business," said Mr Heve. "Really!" Edwin murmured. "Are you sure?" "Quite." Edwin did not feel the full impact of this prophecy at the moment.
The doctor had seen his patient in the garden, and he suggested that if Darius could be persuaded to interest himself in gardening... They discussed his medicine, his meals, his digestion, and the great, impossible dream of `taking him away, `out of it all. And every now and then Dr Heve dropped some little hint as to the management of Darius.
A courtier named La Saussaye was chief of the colony, Captain Charles Fleury commanded the ship, and, as she winged her way across the Atlantic, benedictions hovered over her from lordly halls and perfumed chambers. On the sixteenth of May, La Saussaye touched at La Heve, where he heard mass, planted a cross, and displayed the scutcheon of Madame de Guercheville.
Indeed, it appeared to him that he had known since the previous midnight of his father's sudden doom; it appeared to him that the first glimpse of his father after the funeral had informed him of it positively. What impressed him at the moment was the unusual dignity which characterised Mr Heve's embarrassment. He was beginning to respect Mr Heve.
Moreover, he had been suffering from a series of his customary colds, and from overwork, and Heve had told him that he `would do with a change. Moreover, he had a project for buying paper in London: he had received, from London, overtures which seemed promising.
His trap, which was waiting at the corner, followed them down the road. Edwin could not begin to talk. And Mr Heve kept silence. Behind him, Edwin could hear the jingling of metal on Mr Heve's sprightly horse. After a couple of hundred yards the doctor stopped at a house-door. "Well " He shook hands again, and at last smiled with sad sweetness.
I was going to lick everybody in the jail, if I must. "Put that stave down Gregory! put it down, for Christ's sake!" "Good God! Grab Jim, someone!" "Don't be a fool ... hold Gregory ... he's got the stave!" "He'll kill Jim!" "Or Jim'll kill him!"... Then came a shout from nearby. "I'll heve the law on ye, I will! destroyin' a man's cornfield like a lot o' heathens!"
And looking after. I'll send up some medicine. He'll like it." Mr Heve glanced absently at his watch. "I must be going." "Well " Edwin opened the door. Then with a sudden movement Mr Heve put out his hand. "You'll come in again soon?" "Oh yes." In the hall they saw Maggie about to enter the dining-room with a steaming basin. "I'm going to give him this," she said simply in a low voice.
Dr Heve said mildly that he was glad Edwin had come, and he hinted that some general calming influence was needed. Nurse Shaw had developed one of the sudden abscesses in the ear which troubled her from time to time. This radiant and apparently strong creature suffered from an affection of the ear. Once her left ear had kept her in bed for six weeks, and she had arisen with the drum pierced.
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