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"You hear what Miss Vane said?" She made no answer. "I do not know what you or your mother may have done. Some secret guilt evidently weighed upon her soul. Whatever it may be, she confessed her guilt and received forgiveness. Sabina Meldreth, in the presence of your dead mother and of your living God, I call upon you to do the same.
"Know her?" said Westwood, starting and looking suspiciously at the black figure. "No, I don't know her, unless she's She's very much like a person staying with my landlady just now a Miss Meldreth. I wonder Shall I speak to her, Cynthia?" But the woman had already moved from her standing position by the bench, and was walking away as fast as she could conveniently go.
Two shillings a pound, isn't it? Pack it up and send it to the Rectory to-night, Polly; and here are the two shillings to put into the till. Now will you ask if I can see Mrs. Meldreth?" Polly's shining face suddenly fell. "I daren't leave the shop, sir," she said. "I left it this morning just for a minute or two, and Miss Meldreth said she'd skin me alive if ever I did so again.
But you" to Evandale "hate the deceit; and you, on the other hand" turning to Enid "are fond of the poor child, who, I must say, has been treated about as badly as any of you. Isn't that the case?" "Yes, aunt Leo." "And what's to be done with him when the truth is made known? Is he to be made over to his rightful owner Sabina Meldreth?" Enid and Mr. Evandale looked at each other.
"Well," said Westwood, evidently recovering nerve and self-possession under the influence of his daughter's calmer manner and speaking in an easier tone, "it's that woman Meldreth she is a spy. Who do you think came to her house yesterday but Mrs. Vane? The very woman who has most reason to dread me and to wish to get me shut up in prison, if my idea of her is true!
Meldreth as much money as she could spare, and promised more for the future; but the poor woman at first open to persuasion grew more and more difficult to restrain, and became at last almost imbecile from the pressure of her secret upon her mind.
He opened the door, went out, and closed it behind him, leaving Sabina Meldreth alone with the dead. He found two or three women down-stairs already; Enid Vane must have told Polly, as she passed through the shop, that Mrs. Meldreth's end had come. As soon as he had gone, two of them went up-stairs to perform the necessary offices in the chamber of death.
And" anger now evidently gaining the upper hand "if you'd tell Miss Vane to go, sir, I'd be obliged to you, for she is only exciting mother, and doing her no good." "Your mother shows no symptoms of excitement," said the Rector quietly; "and I must say, Miss Meldreth, that your words do not evince the gratitude that I should have expected you to feel for the young lady's kindness." "Kindness!
Meldreth should be kept quiet, I can see" for the old woman had begun to moan and to move her head restlessly from side to side when she heard her daughter's rasping voice. "Perhaps you would step into another room with me, Miss Meldreth, and tell me how this attack came on if, at least, Miss Vane does not mind being left with Mrs. Meldreth for a few minutes, or if she is not tired."
But what do these meetings with Mr. Evandale mean? Is she confiding her troubles to him then? The little fool! I must see Sabina Meldreth, and Hubert too. What a good thing I had written to him to come though not for the sake of pleasing Miss Enid, as the General fondly supposes! I must send for Sabina." But the wish seemed to have brought about its own fulfilment.
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