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Strickland at his own desk dipped quill into ink-well and continued a letter to a friend in England. The minutes went by. From the courtyard came a subdued, cheerful household clack and murmur, voices of men and maids, with once Mrs. Jardine's genial, vigorous tones, and once the laird's deep bell note, calling to his dogs. On the western side fell only the sough of the breeze in the pine.
'You are safe, it is only a momentary delusion, said Mr. Jardine. 'Have you had that feeling often before? 'Yes sometimes pretty often, gasped Brian. Mr. Jardine's wide reading and large experience as a parish priest had made him half a doctor. He knew that this was one of the symptoms of delirium tremens, and a symptom seen mostly in cases of a dangerous type.
On the Argus pheasant, Jardine's 'Nat. Hist. Lib.: Birds, vol. xiv. p. 167. On Birds of Paradise, Lesson, quoted by Brehm, 'Thierleben, B. iii. s. 325. On the widow-bird, Barrow's 'Travels in Africa, vol. i. p. 243, and 'Ibis, vol. iii. 1861 p. 133. Mr.
Jardine's, asking Ida again and again if she thought that he cared, ever so little, for her. 'You never tell me any of your secrets, Ida, she said, reproachfully, after one of these lengthy discussions. 'I am always prosing about my affairs, until I must seem a lump of egotism. Why don't you make me listen sometimes? I should be deeply interested in any dream of yours, if it were ever so wild.
The tones and semi-tones fell into the long scale. Such moments brought always elevation, deep satisfaction.... More of the will particles traveled from below to the center by the door. The soul turned the mind and directed it upon Alexander Jardine's own history.
On the afternoon of their arrival in Somerset, the Brothers, after a "slight" luncheon, in which Mr. Jardine's preserved vegetables received very particular attention, manned the whale-boat belonging to the Settlement, and pulled over the Straits to Albany Island to get fresh horses. Two were got over, but night coming on, the crossing of the rest was deferred until the next day.
We saw Mrs. Jardine the other day, Baroness such a pleasant surprise that was, too only we're sorry to see she's so delicate. The New Forest will be just the place for her. We stayed there three days after landing, because my Beatrice here was very sea-sick and I wanted her to have a little rest. We were simply crazy over it. I do hope Mrs. Jardine's getting better."
But no Orpheus, wildly harping through the woods, ever led more enthralled and subjugated listeners. Gregory Jardine's face was neither sodden nor silly nor sensual; but it did not wear the enchanted look of the true votary.
Jardine's neat gold and sapphire locket; while the family subscription gift of pink coral earrings hardly harmonised with either. Yet earrings, locket, and necklace were all displayed, and the round white arms were coiled from wrist to elbow with various monstrosities of the bangle breed.
Jardine's phaeton dwindle to a speck in the distance of the avenue, and then she went slowly back to the house, feeling as if she were quite alone in her misery.
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