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'But, surely, said Lawford, 'was it so entirely a matter of choice the laws of the Church? If he did kill himself, he did. The stranger turned with a little shrug. 'I don't suppose it's a matter of much consequence to HIM. I fancied I was his only friend. May I venture to ask why you are interested in the poor old thing? Lawford's mind was as calm and shallow as a millpond.
"Eighteen dollars a week!" exclaimed Aunt Euphemia, aghast. "Yes. That is Lawford's present salary. Wages, I think they call it at the factory. He gets it in cash in a pay envelope." "Mercy, Louise! You are not in earnest?" "Certainly. My young man is going to earn our living. If he marries me his father will cut him off with the proverbial shilling.
"You're only a child. I wish you'd learn your place and keep it." "Oh, fudge!" responded L'Enfant Terrible, not deeply impressed by these sisterly admonitions. Marian was twenty-six two years Lawford's senior. She was a heavy, lymphatic girl, fast becoming as matronly of figure as her mother.
"Good, kind man," she said in her indifferent French, "you have saved both mother and child." The father, meanwhile, with mercantile deliberation, placed in Mr. Lawford's hands notes and bills to the amount of a thousand pounds, which he stated was to be vested for the child's use, and advanced in such portions as his board and education might require.
Mrs Lawford's attitude intensified in its stillness. 'Now, speaking quite frankly, what is it in you suggests these remarks at such a time? That's what baffles me. It seems so childish, so needlessly blind. 'I am very sorry, Sheila, to be so childish. But I'm not, say what you like, blind. You ARE pretty: I'd repeat it if I was burning at the stake.
Aunt Euphemia was out of the question, of course; although she must reveal to her the possible peril menacing Professor Grayling. Betty Gallup could not be trusted, Louise knew. And the day dragged by its limping hours without Lawford Tapp's coming near the store on the Shell Road. This last Louise could not understand. But there was good reason for Lawford's effacing himself at this time.
And yet the slightest, the most infinitesimal change is instantly apparent. 'Oh yes, Vicar; but you see Mr Bethany raised a small lean hand: 'One moment, please. I have heard Lawford's own account.
'Do you think you will need anything more, Dr Ferguson? she asked in a sepulchral voice. Again Lawford's lips moved; again he shook his head. 'One moment, Ada, she said closing the door. 'Some more medicine what medicine? Quick! She mustn't suspect. "What medicine?" repeated Lawford stolidly. 'Oh, vexing, vexing; don't you see we must send her out? Don't you see?
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