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"I suppose we shall have to wait for our turn," sighed Lettice dolefully; but that very same evening an unexpected excitement took place in the quiet household, and though the Mouse's prophecy was fulfilled, inasmuch as it could hardly be called an incident of a cheerful nature, it was yet fated to lead to great and far-reaching results.
Dear little Lettice is so much better. He thinks she will pull through now, thank God! but they nearly lost her." "Was it so bad as that, Die?" in an awed tone. "Yes, it has been a terrible illness. They have nurses, of course, but poor Agnes is almost worn out. She is their only girl, and Douglas does so doat on her.
It is altogether unjustifiable it is a mad presumption which I cannot account for, except by saying that a blind instinct made me think that you alone, of all the people in this world, could help me if you would!" Lettice was deeply moved by various conflicting emotions; but there was no hesitation in the sympathy which went out to meet this strange appeal.
He was surprised at himself: his bid had been unpremeditated it had leaped like a flash of ignited powder out of the resurrected enmity to Valentine Simmons, out of the memories stirred by the figure that resembled Lettice. The sheriff immediately took up his bid. "Thirty-one hundred! thirty-one, gentlemen; only thirty-one for this fine bottom land, all cleared "
She and her maid Milly between them kept the old lady in peace of mind and constant good humor; and if Mrs. Campion still believed that Sydney was their great benefactor, and that it behoved her to comport herself with dignity and grace as the mother of a Lord Chancellor, Lettice did not attempt the hopeless task of undeceiving her.
Lettice raised her eyes and looked at him a look such as a wounded stag might cast at its executioner. She trembled like a leaf, and clasped her hands round his arm in an agony of appeal. "Oh, father, father! I am all pain. I think of it day and night it never leaves me. I think I shall see it before me all my life." "See what, Lettice? What do you mean?"
At any rate I shall have the satisfaction of having done my best." "Well, if you try to like your work, I'll try to remember mine that's a bargain," said Lettice solemnly. "There always seems to be something I want particularly to do for myself, just when I ought to be at my `avocations, as Miss Briggs has it.
"I think you should hear" so it began, without any introductory phrase 'that the story you told me of what happened at Aix-les-Bains is known to men in this country who cannot be your friends, since they relate it in their own fashion at their clubs, and add their own ill-natured comments. Perhaps if you are forewarned you will be fore-armed. "Lettice Campion."
Roger was glad of this opportunity of remaining longer in the company of Mistress Lettice, and of offering that assistance which his experience enabled him to give. He at once hastened to Dartmouth, where he engaged a pinnace with eight rowers, the master of which undertook, the sea being calm, to carry them to Plymouth between sunrise and sunset.
"Hush, your words are over loud, John. If you go, I die. Listen!" Manners needed not the injunction, for someone was unmistakably rushing towards them. He turned, and faced the intruder. "Hold!" he cried, "or you shall rue it. Stand back," he added, as the figure of a man ran towards Dorothy. "Lettice," exclaimed the other, "could I think this of thee? I had trusted thee better.
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