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'To the Backhouses, mother, she said, in a low voice; 'I have not been there for two days. I must go this evening. Mrs. Leyburn said no more. Catherine's 'musts were never disputed. She moved toward Elsmere with out-stretched hand. But he also sprang up. 'I too must be going, he said; 'I have paid you an unconscionable visit.
He gently moved away; her hand dropped. 'Miss Leyburn, he said, gazing at her, his olive face singularly pale, 'don't waste your pity on me, for Heaven's sake. Some madness made me behave as I did just now. Years ago the same sort of idiocy betrayed me to your brother; never before or since.
One of them was John Leyburn, an English Dominican, who had been secretary to Cardinal Howard, and who, with some learning and a rich vein of natural humour, was the most cautious, dexterous, and taciturn of men. He had recently been consecrated Bishop of Adrumetum, and named Vicar Apostolic in Great Britain.
No Nuncio had been received here during the hundred and twenty-seven years which had elapsed since the death of Mary. Leyburn was lodged in Whitehall, and received a pension of a thousand pounds a year. Adda did not yet assume a public character. He passed for a foreigner of rank whom curiosity had brought to London, appeared daily at court, and was treated with high consideration.
'The self that enjoys music is an outer self, and can only bear with it for a short time. No, Miss Leyburn, I shall leave Oxford, the college will sing a Te Deum, I shall settle down in London, I shall keep a bit book going, and cheat the years after all, I suppose, as well as most people.
Langham said to himself calmly, this time, that Elsmere and his wife were making a foolish mistake in supposing that his friendship with Miss Leyburn was anything to be alarmed about, that they would soon be amply convinced of it themselves, and meanwhile he should take his own way.
The doctor's daughter regarded Catherine Leyburn, who during the last five years had made herself almost as distinct a figure in the popular imagination of a few Westmoreland valleys as Sister Dora among her Walsall miners, as a being of a totally different Order from herself. She was glued to the side of her idol, but her shy, and awkward tongue could find hardly anything to say to her.
'Say rather that it means a preference for the people that are not new! There is such a thing as concentrating one's attention. I came to hear you play, Miss Leyburn! 'Well? She glanced at him from under her long lashes, one hand playing with the rings on the other.
Then suddenly Catherine's eyes met his, and he felt an involuntary start. A veil had fallen over them; her sweet moved sympathy was gone; she seemed to have shrunk into herself. She turned to Mrs. Leyburn. 'Mother, do you know, I have all sorts of messages from Aunt Ellen' and in an under-voice she began to give Mrs. Leyburn the news of her afternoon expedition.
The sisters, remembering how she had come in upon them with that look of one 'lifted up, understood why she had not noticed, and refrained from further questions. 'Well, it is to be hoped the young man is recovered enough to stand Long Whindale festivities, said Rose. 'Mrs. Thornburgh means to let them loose on his devoted head to-morrow night. 'Who are coming? asked Mrs. Leyburn eagerly.
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