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And, besides, to run so fast was contrary to my interests. We could not run long without arriving somewhere. At any moment we might turn a corner and find ourselves at the lodge-gate of some Squire Merton, in the midst of a village whose constable was sober, or in the hands of a patrol. There was no help for it I must finish with him on the spot, as long as it was possible.
To occupy her there were Jimmie's hunters and a pack of joyous beagles; for tennis, at week-ends Jimmie filled the house with men, and during the week they both played polo, he with the Meadow Brooks and she with the Meadow Larks, and the golf links of Piping Rock ran almost to their lodge-gate.
She bowed her head and cast her apron over it, sobbing. "Excuse me, Harry but in such moments! And they have found the cashbox. It had been battered open, presumably by a stone, and flung into the brook a hundred yards below Miss Belcher's lodge-gate." "The cashbox?" My brain whirled. "The key was in your father's pocket.
Happy the man who knows his hands the gift of God, the providers for his body! I would in especial that teachers of righteousness were able, with St. Paul, to live by their hands! Outside the lodge-gate he paused, and stood in the middle of the road thinking. Thus far he had seen his way, but no farther. To which hand must he turn? Should he go to his grandfather, or to Barbara?
He did not dare to address her, till, at the lodge-gate, he exclaimed 'There's Markham; and, at the same time, was conscious of a feeling between hope and fear, that this might after all be a fool's errand, and a wonder how they and the master of the house would meet if it turned out that they had taken fright without cause. At his exclamation, Amy leant forward, and beckoned.
"Dear, take me by force before it ends. I I simply cannot endure this. I told you to take me to tear me from myself. Will you do it? I will love you truly, truly! Oh, my darling, my darling! Don't don't give me up! Can't you do something for us? Can't you " "Will you come with me now?" "How can " "Will you?" A sudden sound broke out in the night the distant pealing of the lodge-gate bell.
She went quietly out by the front door, walked slowly, softly, statelily along the street and out of the town, and entered the park by the lodge-gate.
I shall never be able to get home alone. 'I will drive you on as far as the lodge-gate; farther than the lodge I will not go. Nothing in the world shall tempt me to pass it. At a sign from Hubert the little fly-man scrambled down from his box. He was a little old man, almost hunchbacked, with small mud-coloured eyes and a fringe of white beard about his sallow, discoloured face.
Thompson held the handle of the carriage-door: he also offered her his arm, but she despised any such aid. She climbed in unassisted; the post-boy mounted his jade; and so she was driven forth, not without titters from the woman at the lodge-gate. With heavy heart she reached the inn, and sat herself down to weep alone in her bedroom. "So, you've come back?" said the landlady.
It was about nine o'clock that, having put twenty miles of country behind him, he turned in at the lodge-gate nearest to Ivell and King's-Hintock village, and pursued the long north drive itself much like a turnpike road which led thence through the park to the Court.
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