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While she was speaking, Redlaw had come in, and, after pausing for a moment to observe the group of which she was the centre, had silently ascended the stairs. Upon those stairs he now appeared again; remaining there, while the young student passed him, and came running down.
"My mother?" asked the student, glancing round involuntarily towards Redlaw, who had come down from the stairs. "Hush! No," said Milly. "It can be no one else." "Indeed?" said Milly, "are you sure?" "It is not " Before he could say more, she put her hand upon his mouth. "Yes it is!" said Milly. As you always dated your letters from the college, she came there; and before I saw Mr.
William took small branches, which she noiselessly trimmed with her scissors, and decorated the room with, while her aged father-in-law looked on much interested in the ceremony. "My duty to you, sir," returned the old man. "Should have spoke before, sir, but know your ways, Mr. Redlaw proud to say and wait till spoke to! Merry Christmas, sir, and Happy New Year, and many of 'em.
"I am he," pursued the Phantom, "who, in this struggle upward, found a friend. I made him won him bound him to me! We worked together, side by side. All the love and confidence that in my earlier youth had had no outlet, and found no expression, I bestowed on him." "Not all," said Redlaw, hoarsely. "No, not all," returned the Phantom. "I had a sister."
Redlaw looked about him; from the houses to the waste piece of ground on which the houses stood, or rather did not altogether tumble down, unfenced, undrained, unlighted, and bordered by a sluggish ditch; from that, to the sloping line of arches, part of some neighbouring viaduct or bridge with which it was surrounded, and which lessened gradually towards them, until the last but one was a mere kennel for a dog, the last a plundered little heap of bricks; from that, to the child, close to him, cowering and trembling with the cold, and limping on one little foot, while he coiled the other round his leg to warm it, yet staring at all these things with that frightful likeness of expression so apparent in his face, that Redlaw started from him.
Without any show of hurry or noise, or any show of herself even, she was so calm and quiet, Milly set the dishes she had brought upon the table, Mr. William, after much clattering and running about, having only gained possession of a butter-boat of gravy, which he stood ready to serve. "What is that the old man has in his arms?" asked Mr. Redlaw, as he sat down to his solitary meal.
Redlaw was still regarding her with doubt and astonishment, she quietly repeated looking about, the while, for any other fragments that might have escaped her observation: "Oh dear no, sir! He said that of all the world he would not be known to you, or receive help from you though he is a student in your class. I have made no terms of secrecy with you, but I trust to your honour completely."
Redlaw," said the student, "as a just man, and a good man, think how innocent I am, except in name and descent, of participation in any wrong inflicted on you or in any sorrow you have borne." "Sorrow!" said Redlaw, laughing. "Wrong! What are those to me?" "For Heaven's sake," entreated the shrinking student, "do not let the mere interchange of a few words with me change you like this, sir!
"Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind." "Receive it as a proof that I am powerful," returned the Ghost. "Hear what I offer! Forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known!" "Forget them!" he repeated.
Redlaw, may I speak to you?" "Yes," he answered, fixing his eyes upon her. "Your voice and music are the same to me." "May I ask you something?" "What you will." "Do you remember what I said, when I knocked at your door last night? About one who was your friend once, and who stood on the verge of destruction?" "Yes. I remember," he said, with some hesitation. "Do you understand it?"
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