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A timely remembrance of Sydney recalled him to himself. For her sake, he was bound to prevent Mrs. Presty's contemplated interview with his wife on the next morning. Descending the stairs, he met his brother in the corridor on the first floor. "The very man I want to see," Randal said. "Tell me, Herbert, what is the matter with that curious old woman?" "Do you mean Mrs. Presty?" "Yes.
This interesting experiment was never destined to be tried. Right or wrong, Mrs. Presty's theory remained the only explanation of the judge's severity. Mr. Sarrazin attempted to change the subject. Mrs. Presty had not quite done with it yet. "There is one more thing I want to say," she proceeded. "Will his lordship's remarks appear in the newspapers?" "Not a doubt of it."
Norman, when he and his friend met next? Mrs. Presty's mind might have been at ease on that subject, if she had known how to appreciate Randal's character and Randal's motives.
Presty's object in taking the towel. He only said, "Go on." "Grandmamma dipped it into the water-jug," Kitty continued, with a grave face; "but she didn't wash herself. She went to one of mamma's boxes. Though she's so old, she's awfully strong, I can tell you. She rubbed off the luggage-label in no time.
"What a scoundrel I am!" he said to himself as he stood alone in the summer-house, looking at the chair which she had just left. A clever old lady, possessed of the inestimable advantages of worldly experience, must submit nevertheless to the laws of Nature. Time and Sleep together powerful agents in the small hours of the morning had got the better of Mrs. Presty's resolution to keep awake.
Sarrazin went to the window; hid himself behind the curtain; and cautiously peeped out. In half a minute he turned his back on the misty view of the road, and said to himself: "Just what I expected." Other women might have asked what this mysterious proceeding meant. Mrs. Presty's sense of her own dignity adopted a system of independent discovery. To Mr.
Presty's attention had happened to be turned that way, she might have seen, in the faithful creature's sudden and silent retreat, a warning of her son-in-law's humor at that moment. But she was, or assumed to be, interested in her reading; and she deliberately overlooked Linley's appearance. After waiting a little to attract her attention, he quietly took the newspaper out of her hand.
I say it with pride, a widow of my making!" "If this is one of your jokes, ma'am " "Nothing of the sort, sir." "Are you aware, Mrs. Presty, that my brother " "Oh, don't talk of your brother! He's an obstacle in our way, and we have been compelled to get rid of him." Randal drew back a step. Mrs. Presty's audacity was something more than he could understand. "Is this woman mad?" he said to himself.
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