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'Oh! my lady, said Pauncefort, 'I am so glad your la'ship is going to lie down a bit. 'I am not going to lie down, Pauncefort. Give me the key.
'I have only a headache, a very bad headache, Pauncefort; I wish to be quiet, said Venetia. Pauncefort left the room accordingly, and straightway proceeded to Lady Annabel, when she communicated the information that Miss Venetia was in the house, after all, though she had never seen her return, and that she was lying down because she had a very bad headache.
'Look, there is a pretty butterfly! exclaimed Mistress Pauncefort. 'Did you ever see such a pretty butterfly, Miss? 'I do not care about butterflies to-day, Mistress Pauncefort; I like to talk about widows. 'Was there ever such a child! exclaimed Mistress Pauncefort, with a wondering glance. 'I must have had a papa, said Venetia; 'all the ladies I read about had papas, and married husbands.
Indeed, I shall go and tell my lady that you are lying down as it is, and very drowsy; and, so saying, Mistress Pauncefort caught up her candle, and bustled out of the room. Venetia took up the volume of her father's poems, which Cadurcis had filled with his notes.
'La! my lord, said Mistress Pauncefort, 'you must not take on so; you must not indeed. I am sure this dark room is enough to put any one in low spirits. Now do go downstairs, and sit with my lady and the Doctor, and try to be cheerful; that is a dear good young gentleman. I wish Miss Venetia were here, and then she would amuse you. But you must not take on, because there is no use in it.
At length a footstep was heard; Venetia murmured a blessing, and vanished. Cadurcis lingered on the stairs a moment to compose himself. He wiped his eyes; he tried to look undisturbed. All the servants were in the hall; from Mistress Pauncefort to the scullion there was not a dry eye. All loved the little lord, he was so gracious and so gentle.
'Would that George would return, murmured Lady Annabel; 'I wish I could see again that sailor who said they were at Lerici. He was an intelligent man. 'Perhaps if we send down to the bay he may be there, said Venetia. 'Hush! I hear a step! said Lady Annabel. Venetia sprung up and opened the door, but it was only Pauncefort in the vestibule.
'It has been a trial. And here she placed the letter in her bosom. Venetia could only answer with a sigh. 'I wish Pauncefort would come, said Lady Annabel; 'and yet I do not like to rouse her, she was up so late, poor creature! If it be the dawn I should like to send out messengers again; something may be heard at Spezzia. 'Vicenzo thinks they have gone to Leghorn, mother.
Venetia looked into a teacup, and then touched an egg, and then twirled a spoon; but Lady Annabel seemed quite imperturbable, and only observed, 'Probably his guardian is ill, and he has been suddenly summoned to town. I wish you would bring my knitting-needles, Pauncefort. The autumn passed, and Lord Cadurcis never returned to the abbey, and never wrote to any of his late companions.
Venetia could not refrain from shedding a tear when her mother embraced and quitted her, and begged, as a last favour, that she might accompany her through the park to the avenue lodge. So Pauncefort and herself entered the chariot, that rocked like a ship, in spite of all the skill of the coachman and the postilion.
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