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Is she ready to see me?" "Quite ready, sir." "Is she alone?" "Yes, sir." "In the room which was Mr. Vanstone's study?" "In that room, sir." The servant opened the door and Mr. Pendril went in. The governess stood alone at the study window. The morning was oppressively hot, and she threw up the lower sash to admit more air into the room, as Mr. Pendril entered it.
I go away miserable at leaving you; but I must go. If I had loved you less dearly, I might have had the courage to say this in your presence but how could I trust myself to resist your persuasions, and to bear the sight of your distress? Farewell, my darling! Take a thousand kisses from me, my own best, dearest love, till we meet again. Pendril. "Scotland Yard, September 29th, 1846.
Clare had been made acquainted with his dead friend's purpose of sending for Mr. Pendril. Was the old man's thoughtful offer of hospitality another indirect expression of the natural human distress which he perversely concealed? or was he aware of some secret necessity for Mr. Pendril's presence, of which the bereaved family had been kept in total ignorance?
Pendril tell it plainly, tell it instantly, in your own words!" He felt that it would be useless cruelty to resist that appeal. There was no merciful alternative but to answer it on the spot. "I must refer you to the spring of the present year, Miss Garth. Do you remember the fourth of March?" Her attention wandered again; a thought seemed to have struck her at the moment when he spoke.
Keep her in ignorance, if you wish to spare her unnecessary anxiety, and me unnecessary distress. "Norah's letter, no doubt, tells you that she has left her situation. I feel it my painful duty to add that she has left it on your account. "The matter occurred in this manner. Messrs. Wyatt, Pendril, and Gwilt are the solicitors of the gentleman in whose family Norah was employed.
Norah rose hastily from the sofa; Magdalen impetuously left the window. For once, there was no contrast in the conduct of the sisters. For once, the same impulse moved their hearts, the same earnest feeling inspired their words. Miss Garth waited until the first outburst of emotion had passed away; then rose, and, taking Norah and Magdalen each by the hand, addressed herself to Mr. Pendril and Mr.
For God's sake, come on the day when you receive this come and relieve me from the dreadful thought that my two darling girls are at this moment unprovided for. Come at any cost, to yours ever, "On the Saturday morning," Mr. Pendril resumed, "those lines reached me. I instantly set aside all other business, and drove to the railway.
Pendril when he has come here on former visits: I have no claim to justify me in questioning him. Will you look at the letter again? Do you think it implies that Mr. Vanstone has never made a will?" "I think it can hardly imply that," said one of the doctors. "But, even supposing Mr. Vanstone to have died intestate, the law takes due care of the interests of his widow and his children "
He consulted his pocketbook and read over one of the entries, with a look of annoyance. "Grailsea Mill, three o'clock, Saturday. Just the time when Pendril will be here; and I must be at home to see him. How can I manage it? Monday will be too late for my business at Grailsea. I'll go to-day, instead; and take my chance of catching the miller at his dinner-time." He looked at his watch.
Pendril this was the man on whose lips hung the future of the orphans at Combe-Raven. "The time is getting on," he said, looking toward the shrubbery, as he joined Mr. Clare. "My appointment with Miss Garth is for eleven o'clock: it only wants ten minutes of the hour." "Are you to see her alone?" asked Mr. Clare.
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