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Be my friend, and trust me with Zoe." He turned and twisted it in his mind, and resolved on a bold course. He would go to Homburg, and get that sum by hook or by crook out of Ina Klosking's winnings. He took Fanny into his confidence; only he substituted London for Homburg. "And oh, Miss Dover," said he, "do not let me suffer by going away and leaving a rival behind." "Suffer by it!" said she.
The solids melted in his mouth, the liquid ran through his veins like oil charged with electricity and elixir vitoe. By-and-by a female servant came for him, and ushered him into Ina Klosking's room. She received him with undisguised affection, and he had much ado to keep from crying.
He went down and sent into the village for a woman who bore a great name for nursing. Then he wandered about disconsolate. The leaden hours passed. He went to dress, and discovered Ina Klosking's blood upon his clothes. It shocked him first, and then it melted him: he felt an inexpressible tenderness at sight of it. The blood that had flowed in her veins seemed sacred to him.
It was not, like Ina Klosking's, rich, and deep, and tender; yet it had a certain gentle beauty to those who love truth, because it was dispassionate, yet expressive, and cool, yet not cold. One might call it truth's silver trumpet. On the brink of an extraordinary passage, I pause to make no fewer than three remarks in my own person: 1st.
Severne was carried out, his head hastily bandaged, and he was lifted into La Klosking's carriage. One of the people of the theater was directed to go on the box, and La Klosking and Ashmead supported him, and he was taken to her lodgings. She directed him to be laid on a couch, and a physician sent for, Miss Gale not having yet returned from Liverpool, whither she had gone to attend a lecture.
Shovel-hat, portly walk, and green spectacles did the rest. Grandfather Whitehead saluted. His reverence chuckled. Poikilus kept Severne posted by letter and wire as to many things that happened outside Vizard Court; but he could not divine the storm that was brewing inside Ina Klosking's room. Yet Severne defended himself exactly as he would have done had he known all.
However, now I think of it, there was one curious thing I should know him by anywhere." "And what was that?" "Well, you see, his hair was brown; but just above the forehead he had got one lock that was like your own gold itself." While he said this, the Klosking's face underwent the most rapid and striking changes, and at last she sat looking at him wildly.
"I wonder whether he will tell her to go to the devil," said Fanny, who was getting tired of being good. "No use," said Miss Gale; "she doesn't know the road." When La Klosking entered the study, Vizard was seated, disconsolate, with two pictures before him. His face was full of pain, and La Klosking's heart smote her.
He revived a little in the carriage, and was taken, still insensible, but breathing hard, into a room in the railway hotel. When he was out of danger, Miss Gale felt Ina Klosking's pulse, and insisted on her going to Taddington by the next train and leaving Severne to the care of Mr. Ashmead.
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