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Northcott by his Christian name now addressing you as Miss Eden when he left. What does it all mean? If he had called you Mrs. Eden I might have guessed what wonderful things had happened to you." Fan was prepared for this.
I have unburdened my mind of all that I know. I can well conceive that many, after weighing all that I have said, will see no ground for an accusation against Miss Northcott.
"How are you getting on with your medical studies? Never forget, my boy, that your father's son has every claim upon me, and that if I can serve you in any way I am always at your command. Ever affectionately yours, "P.S. By the way, Northcott did not fall in action. He was killed after peace was declared in a crazy attempt to get some of the eternal fire from the sun-worshippers' temple.
"You did that, Miss Northcott." "Did what?" she asked sharply. "Why, mesmerised the mesmeriser I suppose that is the best way of describing the transaction." "What a strange idea!" she said, laughing. "You give me credit for a strong will then?" "Yes," I said. "For a dangerously strong one." "Why dangerous?" she asked, in a tone of surprise.
I was about to ask her the reason for this strange request, but when she saw I was going to address her, she rose and walked slowly out of the room. As she did so I perceived that the lovers had ceased to talk and that Miss Northcott was looking at me with her keen, grey eyes. "You must excuse my aunt, Mr. Armitage," she said; "she is odd, and easily fatigued. Come over and look at my album."
Northcott; he took a somewhat painful interest in questions of the day, and in preaching was prone to leave his text, to cast it away as it were, and, taking up modern weapons, fight against modern sins, modern unbelief. His piping took a troubled sound, Of storms that rage outside our happy ground; He could not wait their passing.
Their subsequent fate was, in my opinion, the result of her vindictive remembrance of their desertion of her, and that they were forewarned of it at the time was shown by the words of both Reeves and Cowles. Above this, I can say nothing. I lay the facts soberly before the public as they came under my notice. I have never seen Miss Northcott since, nor do I wish to do so.
Northcott. He is the type of a gentleman, if you like brave and gentle, and without stain. And how was he rewarded for his devotion? At all events he did not look quite like a conquering hero when he went away." Constance reddened.
By-and-by he would have to reflect that his sympathy with an unbeliever had led him almost to the point of speaking evil of dignities of his vicar, to wit, who paid him seventy pounds a year for his services. That was about all Mr. Northcott had to live on; and yet oh, folly! a declaration of love, an offer of marriage, had been trembling on his lips throughout all that long conversation.
I told him that I was very curious to gain some particulars about a certain Captain Northcott, who had served in the Forty-first Foot, and who had fallen in the Persian War.
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