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If any one had said to her, abruptly, "You have made such a person suffer," she would have laughed gaily. The ache and pain of honest hearts is incense to a coquette. And Lady Amelie Lisle was a coquette to the very depth of her heart! She could have counted her victims by the hundred. Who ever saw her and did not love her?
He had not the honesty to let these thoughts obtrude themselves, but they nevertheless hovered at the back of his mind. It was more graceful to reflect that Millicent possessed refinement, a degree of beauty, and many most desirable qualities. Clarence had gone away with Batley when Lisle called on Mrs. Gladwyne.
I mentioned the thing to Walthew; he was agreeable." They talked about other matters and presently Crestwick came in, smartly dressed and looking remarkably vigorous and clear-skinned. There were many points of difference between his appearance now and when Lisle had first met him. "Mr. Garnet has a proposition to make," Lisle informed him; and the Canadian briefly stated it.
A flush dyed the pale face of Mrs. Dexter. "Oh, my friend, beware of evil counsellors! Mrs. Anthony" "Has never looked into my heart. It is shut and fastened with clasps of iron when she is near," returned Mrs. Dexter. "The presence of such a woman suggests rebellion," said Mrs. De Lisle; "her thoughts are communicated by another way than speech. Is it not so?" "Perhaps it is.
Never saw you until two or three weeks ago," he muttered. "Not accustomed to being treated in that offhand manner. It's Colonial, I suppose!" "Sorry," Lisle apologized with a smile. "I've an idea that you'll be grateful when you cool off. You've been going it pretty strong to-night." "That's true," agreed the other with a show of pride. "Kept on raising them; made things lively!"
"I have tried to look upwards I have looked upwards but the sight of heaven only makes earth more terrible by contrast." "Who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb?" asked Mrs. De Lisle, in a deep, earnest voice. A pause, and then "They who have come up through great tribulation! Think of this, dear friend.
I have locked the door, and the key is hidden." Mrs. De Lisle did not answer, for some time. "Your high sense of honor, pure heart, and womanly perceptions, are guiding you right, I see!" she then remarked; "the ordeal is terrible, but you will pass through unscathed." "I trust so!" was murmured in a sad voice; "I trust to keep my garments unspotted.
He further betrayed himself by a swift, instinctive glance toward the rows of books behind him, and Lisle had no doubt that the missing pages from George Gladwyne's diary were hidden among them. He waited calmly, sure of his position, while Gladwyne with difficulty pulled himself together. "Have you any proof that I found the cache?" he asked. "I think so," Lisle informed him.
Nasmyth had his failings, but he had also his simple, drastic code, and it was repugnant to him that a man of his own caste, one of a family he had long known and respected, should countenance an outsider of Batley's kind and assist him in fleecing a silly vicious lad. "You have no reason to think well of Gladwyne," Lisle reminded him. "I haven't," Nasmyth owned.
"And though, of course, Miss Lisle lost her situation through it, I dare say she finds it quite made up to her." "Not at all," said Percival shortly. The conversation was becoming intolerable. "Oh, you may depend upon it she does," said Mrs. Bryant. "How should a gentleman like you know all the ins and outs, Mr. Thorne?
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