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But Helbeck silenced his sister; and he surrounded Laura with a devotion that had few words, that never made her conspicuous, and yet was more than she could bear. Augustina insisted on her going to bed early. Helbeck went upstairs with her to the first landing, to light her candle. Nothing stirred in the old house. Father Leadham and Augustina were in the drawing-room.
They on their side ran to him from all parts; and he had hardly time to greet the Sisters in charge of them, before the eager creatures were pulling him into the walled garden behind the Hall, one small girl hanging on his hand, another perched upon his shoulder. Father Leadham went into the house to prepare for the service.
"Can Leadham, can anyone deny that the nation rose in them to the full stature of its manhood to a buoyant and fruitful maturity?
It is not the fatigue of the moment, but of the last six months. Just as you knocked at the door, I had finished the novel at which I have been working, oh, with such diligence! 'Oh; a novel! When is it to appear, Lady Carbury? 'You must ask Leadham and Loiter that question. I have done my part of the work. I suppose you never wrote a novel, Mr Alf? 'I? Oh dear no; I never write anything.
'Quite safe, quite safe, said Mr Leadham, who was rather busy, and perhaps saw Lady Carbury more frequently than the nature and amount of her authorship seemed to him to require. 'It seemed to be, put down there, under the counter! 'That's quite right, Lady Carbury. They're left there till they're packed. 'Packed! 'There are two or three dozen going to our reader this week.
Denton that his sister and Miss Fountain were to be well provided. But Mrs. Denton was grudging or forgetful; and it amused Laura to see that Augustina was made to eat, while she herself fared with the rest. The viands of whatever sort were generally scanty and ill-cooked; and neither the Squire nor Father Leadham cared anything about the pleasures of the table, in Lent or out of it. Mr.
The physical fact, indeed, became comparatively unimportant, except as the evoking cause of certain symbolisms nay, certain actual and direct contacts between earth and heaven, which were the distraction of death itself which took precedence of it, and reduced it to insignificance. When Father Leadham left, Father Bowles came to stay in the house, and Communion was given to Mrs.
Meanwhile all else was forgotten. As to food, Helbeck and Father Leadham according to the letters describing her experiences which Laura wrote during these weeks to a Cambridge girl friend lived upon "a cup of coffee and a banana" per day, and she had endless difficulty in restraining her charge, Augustina, from doing likewise.
She did not again express herself except rarely to Augustina with the vehemence she had shown to the little lame orphan; she was quite ready to chat and laugh upon occasion with Father Leadham, who had a pleasant wit, and now and then deliberately sought her society; and, owing to the feebleness of Augustina, she, quite unconsciously, established certain household ways which spoke the woman, and were new to Bannisdale.
'But to be told that I have got to learn the A B C of history after working as I have worked! 'That's a mere form of speech, Lady Carbury. 'You think the book has done pretty well? 'Pretty well; just about what we hoped, you know. 'There'll be something coming to me, Mr Leadham? Mr Leadham sent for a ledger, and turned over a few pages and ran up a few figures, and then scratched his head.
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