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And he held her to his breast, and almost moaned with pity over her, as he pressed the cold sponge to her wound in vain; for still the red blood would flow. Wheels ground the gravel. Servants flew to the door, crying, "The doctor! the doctor!" As if he could have been fetched in five minutes from three miles off. Yet it was a doctor. Harris had met Miss Gale walking quietly down from Hillstoke.
However, he turned this over in his mind while. he was packing; he placed certain plans and papers in his dispatch box, and took his ticket to Taddington, instead of going at once to London. From Taddington he drove over to Hillstoke and asked for Miss Gale. They told him she was fixed at Vizard Court. That vexed him: he did not want to meet Vizard.
Fanny communicated this to Miss Gale, and all she said was, "She shall go no further than Hillstoke then; for I love her better than any man can love her." Fanny did not tell Vizard; and he was downright happy, seeing the woman he loved recover, by slow degrees, her health, her strength, her color, her voice. Parting was not threatened. He did not realize that they should ever part at all.
Severne begged to be excused. He hurried off, and Lord Uxmoor felt a certain relief. The Master of Arts asked himself what he could do to propitiate the female M. D. He went to the gardener and got him to cut a huge bouquet, choice and fragrant, and he carried it all the way to Hillstoke. Miss Gale was at home.
Pray keep her here till she is quite well, please." "I will." "And then let me have her up at Hillstoke. She is beginning to love me, and I dote on her." "So do I." "Ah, but you must not." "Why not?" "Because." "Well, why not?" "She is not to love any man again who will not marry her. I won't let her. I'll kill her first, I love her so.
"Edward, will you grant me a favor?" "Can you ask?" "It is to have a little more confidence in one who Now you must obey me implicitly, and perhaps we may both be happier to-morrow night than we are to-night. Directly after breakfast take your hat and walk to Hillstoke. You can call on Miss Gale, if you like, and say something civil." "What! go and leave you alone with Lord Uxmoor?" "Yes."
FANNY DOVER was sent for directly to Somerville Villa; and, three days after the distressing scene I have endeavored to describe, Vizard brought his wrecked sister home. Her condition was pitiable; and the moment he reached Vizard Court he mounted his horse and rode to Hillstoke to bring Miss Gale down to her.
"Children know nothing," said Vizard. "Please address all future scientific inquiries to an 'old inhabitant. Miss Gale, the country abounds in curiosities; but, among those curiosities, even Science, with her searching eye, has never yet discovered an unswallowed cherry stone in Hillstoke village." "What! not on the trees?" "She is too much for me.
Poikilus, a puffing detective. S. I., Secret Inquiry. I spell Enquiry with an E but Poikilus is a man of the day. What the deuce can Ned Severne want of him? I suppose I ought not to object. I have established a female detective at Hillstoke. So Ned sets one up at Islip. I shall make my own secret arrangements.
At Hillstoke she was Dame Greenaway, being a relic of that generation which applied the word dame to every wife, high and low; but at Islip she was "Sally," because she had started under that title, fifty-five years ago, as house-maid at Vizard Court; and, by the tenacity of oral tradition, retained it ever since, in spite of two husbands she had wedded and buried with equal composure.
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