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Her training in Ledwith's school bred calmness, and above all silence, amid anxiety, disappointment and calamity. "I was glad to be here," she replied, the tears still coursing down her face, "to take their mother's place." "Two beautiful boys," said the Captain, looking into the dead faces.
Sherrett to herself, written from London, where he had just arrived after a visit to Berlin. "I have had no family news," he wrote, "of later date than January 20th. Trust all is well. Shall sail from Liverpool on the 9th." The date of that was March 20th. The fourteenth of April, Easter Monday, was fixed for Desire Ledwith's marriage. Rachel Froke came back on the Friday previous.
"Can you tell me, then, how I am to satisfy you in Ledwith's case?" said the young man good-naturedly. "I don't think you or any one else can, Mr. Dillon. I know Ledwith, a conspirator from his youth. He is found in Ireland in a time of insurrection. That's quite enough."
He used the leisure of the voyage to review recent events, and to measure his own progress. For the first time since his calamity he had lost sight of himself in this poetic enterprise of Ledwith's, successful beyond all expectation. In this life of intrigue against the injustice of power, this endless struggle to shake the grip of the master on the slave, he found an intoxication.
"What's right with him would be the proper question," growled his lordship. "In Ledwith's case the wrong is that he's gone and given assurances to the government. He will not interfere with their disposition of Fenian prisoners, when these prisoners are American citizen. In other words, he has given the government a free hand. He will not be inclined to show Ledwith any favor."
He foresaw that to any determined attempt on the part of Ledwith's English friends he must surrender as gracefully as might be; and the problem was to make that surrender harmless. He had solved it by the time Anne Dillon reached London, and had composed that music sure to make the Minister dance whether he would or no.
It was mere justice that the wretched past should be in a grave, doomed never to see the light of resurrection. His mother and her party shared the journey with him. The delay of Ledwith's trial had enabled them to make the short tour on the Continent, and catch his steamer. Anne was utterly vexed with him that Ledwith had not escaped the prison. Her plain irritation gave Judy deep content.
But none of the people were there to whom any such little speeches had to be made; nobody who needed any accounting to for its oddity was present at Desire Ledwith's wedding. Mr. Vireo officiated; there was something in his method and manner which Mrs. Megilp decidedly objected to. It was "everyday," she thought. "It didn't give you a feeling of sanctity.
If I had not so many things to tell before my story can be at all complete, I should like nothing better than to linger here in Desire Ledwith's room, where there was so really "a beautiful east window, and the morning had come in."
Scherman always managed it that they should both go to Desire Ledwith's, for the Read-and-Talk.
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