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"Emily, I am come to make the humblest apologies possible. I find that I am absolutely obliged to go to London to-morrow on a matter that cannot be postponed." Justina was greatly mortified, but she answered instantly, and not Emily "Ah, then of course you are come to put us off, Mr. Mortimer?"
The dining-room alone was as other people's dining-rooms, but John's own den was so very far gone in originality and strangeness of litter, that Justina felt decidedly uneasy when she saw it; it made manifest to her that her hoped-for spouse was not the manner of man whom she could expect to understand; books also here had accumulated, and stood in rows on chairs and tables and shelves; pipes were lying on the stone chimneypiece, sharing it with certain old and new, beautiful and ugly bronzes; long papers of genealogies and calculations in John's handwriting were pinned against the walls; various broken bits of Etruscan pottery stood on brackets here and there.
But to the Churches of Lombardy it was longer light than to those of southern Italy. Ambrose went to the grave; but the spirit of the man who had closed the Cathedral gates in the face of the Goths of Justina, and exacted a public repentance of the Emperor Theodosius, lived after him.
The empress Justina did not long survive her return to Italy; and, though she beheld the triumph of Theodosius, she was not allowed to influence the government of her son. The pernicious attachment to the Arian sect, which Valentinian had imbibed from her example and instructions, was soon erased by the lessons of a more orthodox education.
Emily and Justina went across the fields and came to John's garden, over the wooden bridge that spanned the brook. The sunny sloping garden was full of spring flowers.
Dorothea's fair young face was at once full of interest. Justina saw curiosity, too, but none was expressed; she only said, with the least little touch of pique, "And you never told me that you were wishing so much to go away."
"I hope the auriculas will not have begun to fade, they are Miss Fairbairn's favourite flower." Then, to the intense mortification of Justina, John changed the subject, as if it had been one of no moment to him. "I have been over to Wigfield-house this afternoon to pay my respects to Mrs. Brandon and her boy." "You found them well, I know, for we were there this morning."
John, you should go and see her." "I will take Mr. Mortimer to her," said Justina, rising serenely. This she thought would break off the conversation, in which she had no part. So John went up to Miss Christie's little sitting-room, and there she was, bolt upright, with her lame foot on a cushion.
He left no issue by his wife Justina, to whom he was married several years. Wood says, that in the wall over his grave there is this inscription;
She began to talk her thinking out loud, and she said: "Yes, there was a window where everything was green, and, small, and moving but Sister Justina said there was not any window like that in the whole world "
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