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Heaven forgive me! she's an honest woman at least; I wouldn't rob her of her little: fifty-nine or sixty next September, fifteenth of the month! with the constitution of a broken drug-bottle, poor soul! She hears everything from Jarniman: he catches wind of everything. All foreseen, Fenellan, foreseen. I have made my stand at Lakelands, and there's my flag till it's hauled down over Victor Radnor.
The quick of pace are soon in the quick of thoughts. Jarniman, then, was a man whom his master, not wanting to see, one day, and wanting to see, on another day, might wish to conciliate: a case of policy. Let Jarniman go. Journeyman, on the other hand, was nobody at all, a ghost of the fancy.
'Well, dear, and the day was, you must own . . . he sought to trifle with her heavy voice; but she recalled him: 'Victor! and the naked anguish in her cry of his name was like a foreign world threatening the one he filled. 'Ah, yes; that man, that Jarniman. You saw him, I remember. You recollected him? stouter than he was. In her service ever since.
Fenellan brought Carling to dine with him; and Themison was confirmed by Carting, with incidents in proof; Caning by Jarniman, also with incidents; one very odd one or so it seemed, in the fury of the first savour of it: she informed Jarniman, Skepsey said his friend Jarniman said, that she had dreamed of making her appearance to him on the night of the 23rd August, and of setting the date on the calendar over his desk, when she entered his room: 'Sitting-room, not bedroom; she was always quite the lady, Skepsey reported his Jarniman.
She was free of the horrid associations with the scent of Marechale. At any rate, she had comported herself admirably! Victor fancied he must have shuddered when he passed by Jarniman at the door, who was almost now seeing his mistress's ghost would have the privilege to-morrow. He called a cab and drove to Mrs.
He told her the tale of Skepsey and Jarniman, colouring it, as any interested animated conduit necessarily will. Neither of them smiled. The effort to think soberly exhausted and rolled her back on credulity. It might not be to-day or next week or month: but so much testimony pointed to a day within the horizon, surely! She bowed her head to heaven for forgiveness.
Seventeen houses of the terrace fronting the park led to the funereal one: and the bell was tolled in the breast of each of the couple advancing with an air of calmness to the inevitable black door. Jarniman opened it. 'His mistress was prepared to see them. Not like one near death. They were met in the hall by the Rev. Groseman Buttermore.
'Listens to him, listens to me, listens to Jarniman; and we neither of us guide her. She's very curious a study. You think you know her next day she has eluded you. She's emotional, she's hard; she's a woman, she's a stone. Anything you like; but don't count on her.
But he is anxious for her in any case to show herself, and says, he should not have the heart to reproach her. He has principles, a tear for suffering; he likes to be made to cry. Mrs. Jarniman, his mother, he is not married, is much the same so far, except ghosts; she will not have them; except after strong tea, they come, she says, come to her bed.
There I lay see myself lying! wasting! Think what you can good of her, by all means! From her bed! despatches that Jarniman to me from her bedside, with the word, that she cannot in her conscience allow what imposition was it I practised? . . . flagrant sin? it would have been an infinitely viler . . . . She is the cause of suffering enough: I bear no more from her; I've come to the limit.
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