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She has a headache too; and when I shut the door just now, I am sure as quiet as a lamb, she told me not to make so much noise when I left the room. "Noise!" says I; "why really, my lady, I don't pretend to be a spirit; but if it comes to noise " "Never answer me, Pauncefort," says my lady.
Venetia looked around her as she entered the chamber; that scene of her former life, endeared to her by so many happy hours, and so many sweet incidents; that chamber where she had first seen Plantagenet. Lord Cadurcis supported her to a chair, and then, overwhelmed by irresistible emotion, she sank back in a swoon. No one was allowed to enter the room but Pauncefort.
'Hush! hush! said Lady Annabel, 'I do not blame you, and therefore you need not defend yourself. Go, Pauncefort, I must be alone. Pauncefort withdrew, and Lady Annabel resumed her seat by her daughter's side. On the fourth day of her attack the medical attendants observed a favourable change in their patient, and were not, of course, slow in communicating this joyful intelligence to her mother.
Miss Venetia. Well, to be sure, you do ask the strangest questions. Married! to be sure she is married, said Mistress Pauncefort, exceedingly flustered. 'And whom is she married to? pursued the unwearied Venetia.
The vase was safely deposited; Mistress Pauncefort gave the last touch to the arrangement of the flowers; she lingered about Lady Annabel. At length she said, 'I suppose you have heard the news, my lady? 'Indeed, Pauncefort, I have not, replied Lady Annabel. 'What news? 'My lord is coming to the abbey. 'Indeed!
'I have of course no objection, Pauncefort, to your being of service to the housekeeper, but has she required your assistance? 'Why no, my lady, but poor Mrs. Quin would hardly like to ask for anything, my lady; but I am sure we might be of very great use, for my lord's gentleman seems very dissatisfied at his reception, Trimmer says. He has his hot breakfast every morning, my lady, and poor Mrs.
I saw it half an hour ago with my own eyes. 'There is no use arguing about it, Pauncefort, said Lady Annabel, with decision. 'It is as I say. I fear great misfortunes are about to commence at Cherbury. 'Oh! my lady, don't think of such things, said Pauncefort, herself not a little alarmed. 'What can happen? 'I fear more than I know, said Lady Annabel; 'but I do fear much.
A blazing fire of pine wood soon gave cheerfulness to the vast and somewhat desolate apartment into which our friends had been ushered; their sleeping-room was adjoining, but separated. In spite of the lamentations of Pauncefort, who had been drenched to the skin, and who required much more waiting upon than her mistress, Lady Annabel and Venetia at length produced some degree of comfort.
The waiting-woman bustled about, arranging the toilet-table, which had been for a moment discomposed, putting away a cap, folding up a shawl, and indulging in a multitude of inane observations which little harmonised with the high-strung tension of Venetia's mind. Mistress Pauncefort opened a casket with a spring lock, in which she placed some trinkets of her mistress.
I shall never forget when Pauncefort met him coming out of her room the night before the burial, when he said, with streaming eyes, "I only had one friend in the world, and now she is gone." I could not love Mrs. Cadurcis, and yet, when I heard of these words, I cried as much as he. 'Poor fellow! said the Doctor, filling his glass.
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