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Distinctly, yes, she now recalled she had seen, as she glanced, a shadow of anxiety, of perplexity, rather, fall across his face; and, following his eyes, had beheld the figure of a man a man in loose, grayish clothes, as it appeared to her who was sauntering down the lime-avenue to the court with the tentative gait of a stranger seeking his way.
Buxton's, taking the air and wondering what the devil all the clamouring be about." Then he took him downstairs again and showed him finally the escape of which he was most proud the entrance, designed in the cellar-staircase, to an underground passage from the cellars, which led, he told him, across to the garden-house beyond the lime-avenue.
Distinctly, yes, she now recalled she had seen, as she glanced, a shadow of anxiety, of perplexity, rather, fall across his face; and, following his eyes, had beheld the figure of a man a man in loose, grayish clothes, as it appeared to her who was sauntering down the lime-avenue to the court with the tentative gait of a stranger seeking his way.
I hung about a minute longer, and then turned and went out of the porch again and through the lime-avenue into the road, while the blackbirds sang their strongest from the bushes about me in the hot June evening.
"And now the other way," he had said, gently turning her about within his arm; and closely pressed to him, she had absorbed, like some long, satisfying draft, the picture of the gray-walled court, the squat lions on the gates, and the lime-avenue reaching up to the highroad under the downs.
The chancel of the parish-church overlooked the west end of his lime-avenue, while the east end of the garden terminated in a great gateway, of stone posts and wrought iron gates that looked out to the meadows and farm buildings of the estate, and up to which some day no doubt a broad carriage drive would be laid down. But at present the sweep of the meadows was unbroken.
I remember the date because it was the day we went up Meldon Steep for the first time." She felt a faint gasp of inward laughter at the thought that but for that she might have forgotten. Parvis continued to scrutinize her, as if trying to intercept her gaze. "We saw him from the roof," she went on. "He came down the lime-avenue toward the house. He was dressed just as he is in that picture.
Lodge and Julian Horne went off for a swim in the cool end of the lake. Peter still slept, looking so innocent and infantine in his sleep that no one had the heart to wake him. French and Helena were left together, and were soon driven by the advancing sun to the deep shade of a lime-avenue, which, starting from the back of the house, ran for half a mile through the park.
I remember the date because it was the day we went up Meldon Steep for the first time." She felt a faint gasp of inward laughter at the thought that but for that she might have forgotten. Parvis continued to scrutinize her, as if trying to intercept her gaze. "We saw him from the roof," she went on. "He came down the lime-avenue toward the house. He was dressed just as he is in that picture.
They were walking in the lime-avenue together after dinner on the last day of Mary's visit. "You have a good chaplain," she said; "what an honest lad he is! and how serious and recollected! Please God he at least may escape their claws!" "It is often so," said Mr. Buxton, "with those wholesome out-of-door boys; they grow up into such simple men of God."
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