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"Very well, Lackington, keep him in his room. I will go through here to Nichol." Isabel had drawn a sharp breath as the voice began, and as the door opened wider she turned and faced it. Then Hubert came in, and recoiled on the threshold. There fell a complete silence in the room. "Hubert," said Isabel after a moment, "what are you doing here?"
Mary Lackington grew nervous; she did therefore the most sensible thing she could have done under the circumstances she proceeded on her way homeward. This, then, was Mary's first meeting with Miss Woppit.
She turned to him with a sharp brightness in her black eyes. "Besides, if Lord Lackington gives me money, he will want to give me advice. And I would rather advise myself." Warkworth sat silent a moment. Then he took a great resolve. "I want to speak to you," he said, suddenly, putting out his hand to hers, which lay on her knee. She turned to him, startled.
Sir Wilfrid was just reflecting that Jacob's honesty had better have waited for a more propitious season, when, looking up, he saw the War Minister beside him, in the act of searching for a newspaper. "Released?" said Bury, with a smile. "Yes, thank Heaven. Lackington is, I believe, still pounding at me in the House of Lords. But that amuses him and doesn't hurt me."
She was simply a strange, lonely creature who had accepted valorously her duty to minister to the comfort of her brother; the circumstances of her wooing invested her name and her lot with a certain pleasing romance; she was a woman, she was loyal to her sense of duty, and she was, to a greater degree than most women, a martyr herein, perhaps, lay the secret to the fascination Miss Woppit had for Mary Lackington.
She felt a vague pang of dread as she tried to assure him that she had kind friends, and that her work would be her resource. Lord Lackington frowned. "That won't do," he said, almost vehemently. "You have great talents, but you are weak you are a woman you must marry." Julie stared at him, whiter even than when she had entered his room helpless to avert what she began to foresee.
Mary Lackington had hoped that, as they passed The Bower, she would catch a glimpse of Miss Woppit perhaps have sufficient opportunity to call out a hasty farewell to her. But Miss Woppit was nowhere to be seen. The little door of the cabin was open, so presumably the mistress was not far away. Mary was disappointed, vexed; she threw herself back and resigned herself to indignant reflections.
Julie obeyed with difficulty. She had not realized how hard it would be for her to talk of Lord Lackington. But she described the old man's gallant dying as best she could; while Aileen Moffatt listened with that manner at once timid and rich in feeling which seemed to be her characteristic.
He had been overpowered in the first rush as he pealed on the alarm-bell, to which he had rushed when the groom burst in from the stable-yard crying that the outer court was full of men. Lackington had then sent him under guard to his own room, where he had been locked in with an armed constable to prevent any possibility of escape.
"What is your name, boy?" began Lackington in a sharp, judicial tone. "John Belton," said the lad in a tremulous voice. "And you are a little papist?" asked the agent. "No sir; a Protestant." "Then how is it that you go on errands for papists?" "I am a servant, sir," said the boy imploringly. Lackington turned the papers over for a moment or two.
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