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He entered the park and the long iron latch of the wooden gate fell into its socket behind him with a sharp click. Mr. Juxon walked quickly on and Stamboul trod noiselessly behind him. At about a hundred yards from the gate the avenue turned sharply to the right, winding about a little elevation in the ground, where the trees stood thicker than elsewhere.
If Charles Juxon was remarkable for anything it was for his modesty and reticence, in a word, for his apparent determination not to be remarkable at all. And now, in the extremest anxiety and difficulty, his character served him well; for he unconsciously refused to allow to himself that his position was extraordinary or his responsibility greater than he was able to bear.
"Why?" asked John. "You know I am going to the Hall." "Yes, of course. I only thought, perhaps, you and Mr. Juxon would like to drive up it is so dark. I am sure Mr. Ambrose would not mind you taking the gentlemen up to the Hall, Reynolds?" "No m'm. I'm quite sure as he wouldn't," exclaimed Reynolds with great alacrity. He immediately had visions of a pint of beer in the Hall kitchen.
The King thanked the Bishop for his choice of the lesson; but he was surprised and gratified to learn that it was the lesson for the day according to the calendar. The day was so piercing that the king, at the persuasion of Bishop Juxon, wore a cloak till the moment of his death.
Juxon very much, or else I think you take a good deal upon yourself in remarking in this way " She was naturally a little timid, but John's youth and what she considered as his extraordinary presumption inspired her with courage to protest. The effect upon John was instantaneous. "Pray forgive me," he said humbly, "I am very silly. I daresay you are quite right and I do not like Mr. Juxon.
And he meant it. Mrs. Goddard dropped her hands and stared into the fire through her falling tears. "I think you behaved very honourably very generously," continued Mr. Juxon, who did not know precisely how to console her, and indeed stood much in need of consolation himself. "Perhaps I had better leave you you are very much agitated you must need rest would you not rather that I should go?"
Juxon was in a frame of mind in which he felt that he ought to do something pleasant for somebody, to set off against the bloodthirsty designs which had passed through his mind in the morning. He knew that if he had not been over friendly to John, it had been John's own fault; but since he had found out that it was impossible to marry Mrs.
"Yes, sir," said Holmes, and left the room. Mr. Juxon lighted other candles and examined the injured man. There was now no doubt that he was alive. He breathed faintly but regularly; his pulse beat less rapidly and more firmly. His face was deadly pale and very thin, and his half-opened eyes stared unconsciously upwards, but they were not glazed nor death-like.
"You don't mean to say you have been a sailor all your life?" "Does that surprise you? I have been a sailor since I was twelve years old. But I got very tired of it. It is a hard life." "Were you in the navy, Mr. Juxon?" asked Mrs. Goddard eagerly, feeling that she was at last upon the track of some information in regard to his past life. "Yes I was in the navy," answered the squire, slowly.
Goddard would skate in the afternoon between the services, but then Juxon would be there. "Never mind Juxon," quoth John to himself, "it is Christmas day!" At the vicarage and elsewhere, all over the land, those things were done which delight the heart of Englishmen at the merry season.
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