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Newt was never so fascinating," they all think in their secret souls; and they half envy Grace Plumer, for they know the little supper is given for her, and they think it needs no sibyl to say why, or to prophesy the future. It is nearly midnight, and the moon is rising. Hark! A band pours upon the silent night the mellow, passionate wail of "Robin Adair."
"Lawrence Newt, say if you think she loves you, and tell me," she said, drawing herself erect and back from him, as in the twilight of the old library at Pinewood, while her thin finger was pointed upward "tell me, as you will be judged hereafter me, to whom her mother gave her as she died, knowing that she loved you." Her voice died away, overpowered by emotion.
He was alone in the inner room; but the sun that morning did not see a row of pleasanter faces than were bending over large books in odoriferous red Russia binding, and little books in leather covers, and invoices and sheets of letter paper, in the outer office of Lawrence Newt. A lad entered the office and stood at the door, impressed by the silent activity he beheld.
"The hope of some crumb of comfort." "Do you dip from your empyrean to the cold earth from the studio to a counting-room to find comfort?" asked Lawrence Newt, cheerfully. Arthur Merlin looked only half sympathetic with his friend's gayety. There was a wan air on his face, a piteous look in his eyes, which touched Lawrence. "Why, Arthur, what is it?"
Miss Plumer turns in the very middle of a word which she has begun to address to him. "Miss Grace?" "Well, Mr. Newt." "You observe the engraving of the Madonna?" "Yes." "You see the two cherubs below looking up?" "Yes." "You see the serene sweetness of their faces?" "Yes." "Do you know what it is?" Grace Plumer looks as if curiously speculating.
Through the summer nights they sighed. But it was not a lullaby it was not a serenade. It was the croning of a Norland enchantress, and young Hope sat at her open window, looking out into the moonlight, and listening. Abel Newt opened the gate and passed in. He walked along the avenue, from which the lawn was still hidden by the skirting hedge, went up the steps, and rang the bell. "Is Mr.
His tone was threatening, and nobody laughed. General Belch looked as if he were restraining himself from knocking his friend down. But they all saw that their host was mastered by his own liquor. "Squeeze Lawrence Newt, will you? Why, Lord, gentlemen, what do you suppose he thinks of you I mean, of fellows like you?" asked Abel. He paused, and glared around him.
Because, said the farmer " Lawrence Newt looked at his auditors. "Are you listening, dear Fanny?" "Yes, Uncle Lawrence." " because it's none of my business." Lawrence Newt smiled; so did all the rest, including Fanny, who remarked that he might have told her in fewer words that she was impertinent. "Yes, Fanny; but sometimes words help us to remember things.
I shall call at twelve in the carriage; and, mind, don't you look red and mopy. Remember. So, good-morning! And, May, I want to speak to you." They left Mrs. Newt rocking and weeping, with the smelling-bottle at her nose, and descended to the solemn parlor. "What brought this about?" asked Mrs. Dagon, as she closed the door. "Your mother is in such a state that it does no good to talk to her.
Still Lawrence Newt came to the house, to consult, to inspect, to bring bills that he had paid, to hear of a new utensil for the kitchen, to see about coal, about wood, about iron, to look at a dipper, at a faucet he knew every thing in the house by heart, and yet he did not know how or why. He wanted to come he thought he came too often. What could he do?
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