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Bourdois de la Motte, the President; Fouquier, Gueneau de Mussy, Guersent, Husson, Itard, Marc, J. J. Leroux, Thillay, Double, and Majendie. These gentlemen began their labours by publishing an address to all magnetisers, inviting them to come forward and exhibit in their presence the wonders of animal magnetism.
He himself counted for little in his schemes. At thirty-five he found himself, with all his flames extinguished, settling down into the dull habits and the sober hopes of middle age. To the mind of Gorst, the spectacle of Majendie in his office was, as he informed him, too sad for words.
Made restless by her trouble, she had acquired this pedestrian habit lately, and Majendie encouraged her in it, regarding it less as a symptom than as a cure. She had flagged a little in the autumn, and he was afraid that the strain of her devotion to Edith was beginning to tell upon her health.
The professor makes an impatient gesture. But Miss Majendie is equal to most things. "'Who excuses himself accuses himself," quotes she with terrible readiness. "Why that gesture, Mr. Curzon? I made no mention of your name. And indeed, I trust your age would place you outside of any such suspicion, still, I am bound to be careful where my niece's interests are concerned.
"I always have embraced it," said she in her ringing voice. "I believe it's about the only thing you ever wanted to embrace." "You need not say so," she returned. "Then why, oh why, do you wear those awful clothes?" "My clothes are suitable," said she. "Suitable? My dear girl, they suggest a divorce-suit, Majendie versus Majendie, if you like. You're a walking prosecution.
Hannay kept on being frightened; she refused to part with her panic and be natural. So terrified was she, that she hardly seemed to take in what Mrs. Majendie was saying. Anne, however, conversed with the utmost amiability, while her thoughts ran thus: "Dear lady, why this agitation? You cannot help being vulgar. As for your friends, what do you think I expected?" The other lady, Mrs.
She went alone. Majendie had admitted lately that he liked going to St. Saviour's, but he refused to accompany her to All Souls. She went in a strange, premonitory mood, expectant of some great illumination. It came with the Collect for the day. Anne was deeply moved by the Collect. She prayed inaudibly, with parted lips thirsting for the sources of her spiritual help.
"Well, since that night we haven't seen each other for more than five years. Ask him if it isn't true. Ask Mrs. Hannay " "Lady Cayley, I do not doubt your word nor my husband's honour. I can't think why you're giving yourself all this trouble." "Why, because they're saying now " Mrs. Majendie rose. "Excuse me, if you've only come to tell me what people are saying, it is useless.
Gorst and Miss Majendie at the back of this discussion, and he was very curious to know what it might be. Anne recoiled from the veiled condemnation of his face more than she had from its open intimations. She was not clever enough to see that the clever Canon had simply laid a trap for her. She was now convinced that there was something that he knew.
He had almost forgotten her existence during these past tranquil months, when no word or hint about her reached him, but now, here she is at last, descending upon him like a whirlwind. A line in a stiff, uncompromising hand apprises the professor of the unwelcome fact. The "line" is signed by "Jane Majendie," therefore there can be no doubt of the genuineness of the news contained in it.
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