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But Lady Agnes never gave any one the satisfaction of knowing the exact truth. She moved through the social world like a gentle ghost, fulfilling her duties admirably, but apparently indifferent to every one and everything. "Clippin' to look at," said the young men, "but tombs to talk to. No sport at all." But then the young men did not possess the key to Lady Agnes Pine's heart.
I was instantly by his side, and we strained our eyesight in an attempt to count the shifting figures. Pine's vision was better and more practised than mine. "They are all thar," said he, "and they're driving extry hosses." Ten minutes later the cavalcade stopped and the men dismounted wearily.
During a lull in the dancing on the afternoon of the wedding day Little Pine's sister went up to him and said: "Brother, may I kiss you? Are you ashamed?" He answered: "No." She kissed him, took his wife's hand, placed it in his with her own over both, and addressed the young wife: "As you have taken my place, do to him as I have done; listen to him, work for him, and, if need be, die for him."
I haven't a doubt of the value of that vein. Look at that, Sile." Sile looked with a face more deeply flushed than even his father's. "Why, it's exactly like Yellow Pine's old specimens, so far as I can see; no more gold in these than in them." "That's just the point, Sile. He brought me fair specimens. There isn't any humbug or delusion about it. It's all right, Pine, so far as I can see.
I take no more or I be damned! He better man than you was; you bad and evil, for fun he grow big and white. No work for bad man friend now to good mens. Pine. "The devil!" muttered Ledyard; but oddly enough the letter raised, rather than lowered, his mental temperature. Those ill-looking epistles of Pine's had nauseated him lately. He had begun to experience the sensation of over-indulgence.
And there was no doubt that Miss Greeby had entirely overcome the passion she had once entertained for him. "I hope Agnes will think so also," thought Lambert, when he began a letter to the lady. "She was always rather doubtful of Clara." As Miss Greeby had informed Lambert, she intended to remain at the Garvington Arms until the mystery of Pine's death was solved.
Sometimes Silver accompanied her, as the lady had given him to understand that she knew Pine's real rank and name, so the two were made free of the Bohemians and frequently chatted with Ishmael Hearne. But they kept his secret, as did Chaldea; and Garvington had no idea that the man he dreaded and hated who flung money to him as if he were tossing a bone to a dog was within speaking distance.
The only sounds that broke the silence were the gurgling of the water below him, and the Tap tap, Tap tap, of Pine's hammers at work upon the new partition. By and by the noise of these hammers ceased, and then the sick man could hear gasps, and moans, and mutterings the signs that his companions yet lived.
But the subject of the King's Regulations was even more distasteful to the cuddy than Pine's interminable anecdotes, and Mrs. Vickers hastened to change the subject. "Are you not heartily tired of this dreadful life, Mr. Frere?" "Well, it is not exactly the life I had hoped to lead," said Frere, rubbing a freckled hand over his stubborn red hair; "but I must make the best of it."
Pine's solicitor he was called Jarwin and came from a stuffy little office in Chancery Lane called Garvington aside, when the mourners returned from the funeral, and asked that the reading of the will might be confined to a few people whom he named. "There is a condition laid down by the testator which need not be made public," said Mr. Jarwin blandly.
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