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The rain had ceased; a high wind buffeted them as they went along the almost deserted street. The necessity of clutching at his hat might have explained Norbert's silence for a moment; but he strode on without speaking. "Of course, if you don't care to talk about it," said Will, stopping short.
Norbert's, and Rachel, who was obliged to reply, felt under his clear, stringent questions, keeping close to the point, a good deal more respect for his powers than she had hitherto entertained. That dry way of his was rather overwhelming.
He met Mademoiselle Laurebourg on his return at the door of his cottage, and taking her inside, he informed her that at a late hour the night before the doctor had been sent for to Champdoce to attend the Duke, who was supposed to be dying. Then he reproved her bitterly for her imprudence in visiting him. "Do you wish," said he, "to show all Bevron that you and I are Norbert's accomplices?"
There was a bright light in his eye, and yet he looked pale, grave, and worn; and Ermine's first observation was "How came Tibbie to let you out at this time of night?" "I have not ventured to encounter Tibbie at all. I drove up to your door." "You have been at St. Norbert's all this time," exclaimed Alison. "Do you think no one can carry on a campaign at St.
Had Rosamund Elvan the right influence on her lover; in spite of Norbert's lyric eulogy, had she served merely to confuse his aims, perhaps to bring him down to a lower level of thought? There was his picture, "Sanctuary." Before he knew Rosamund, Franks would have scoffed at such a subject, would have howled at such treatment of it.
She is dying of consumption, poor thing, and I take her a little soup and wine every now and then." She spoke like a real Sister of Mercy, and, in Norbert's opinion, wings only were lacking to transform her into a perfect angel. "The poor woman has three children, and their father does nothing for them, for he drinks what he earns," the young girl went on.
Norbert's but yourself and your generalissima, Miss Ailie?" he said, stroking down Rose's brown hair. "Then, if you have not gone home, you have had nothing to eat, and that is the reason you look so tired," said Ermine. "Yes; I had some luncheon at the Abbey." "Then, at any rate, you shall have some tea. Rosie, run and fetch the little kettle."
He was not, however, completely reassured until he heard for certain that the Duke had become a helpless maniac, and that the doctor, having given up all hopes of his patient's recovery, had discontinued his visits to the Chateau. As soon as he had heard that Norbert's marriage had been so soon followed by his father's death, he imagined that every cloud had disappeared from the sky.
When his father fell to the ground, his instinct made him shout for aid; but an instant afterwards terror took possession of him, and, rushing from the house, he sought the open country, as though striving to escape from himself. Jean, the old servant, who had noticed Norbert's strange look, was seized with a terrible fear.
When Madame de Mussidan heard that Andre was Norbert's son, she declared that nothing could induce her to give her consent to his marriage with her daughter; but among Mascarin's papers Lecoq had discovered the packet containing the compromising correspondence between the Duke de Champdoce and herself.
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