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Distance allowing her, for she was not a good walker, she would have gone on foot, without attendants, to visit the Countess of Elmsley and Lady Mary; but not Sibylla. You can understand the distinction. They arrived at an inopportune moment, for Lionel was there. At least, Lionel thought it inopportune. On leaving his mother's house he had gone to Sibylla's.
"And Sibylla's as surely going after them, doctor, as that I am here," returned Jan. "Lionel intends to call in Dr. Hayes to her." "Since when has she been so ill?" "Not since any time in particular. There appears to be no real illness yet only symptoms. She coughs, and gets as thin as a skeleton. Sometimes I think, if she could call up a cheerful temper, she'd keep well.
"It's all waste of time, his coming; he can't do anything; but it is satisfaction for Lionel," observed Jan to his mother. Lady Verner felt inclined to blame those of her household who had been left at home, for Sibylla's escapade: all of them Lionel, Lucy Tempest, and the servants. They ought to have prevented it, she said; have kept her in by force, had need been. But she blamed them wrongly.
Now Sibylla's gone, there's nobody in the whole world I care for, but you." He spoke it without any double meaning: he might have used the same words, been actuated by precisely the same feelings, to his mother or his sister. His all-absorbing love for Sibylla barred even the idea of any other love to his mind, yet awhile.
He was full of pride and delight at the way in which Ned had outwitted the pirates at last and run away with the ship; and could find no words in which to express his admiration of Sibylla's courage under her long-protracted and trying ordeal, and his gratitude at her escape; and when at length the stories of the various actors in this little drama had been fully told, and he had congratulated them upon their marvellous deliverance, he wound up all by saying: "Well, I took the ship out, it is true, and I lost her; but, thanks be to God, I can now face my owners with the words, `There is your ship, in as good order and condition as when you placed her in my charge; and if I didn't get her back from the pirates for you, I at least had the training of the man who did, which is almost as good, I take it."
Gordon's remembrance, as affording less chance of Sibylla's hearing of it again but to get information on another topic. He had been rapidly making up his mind during the latter half of breakfast, and had come to a decision. "Gordon, can you inform me where Captain Cannonby is to be found?" "Can you inform me where the comet that visited us last year may be met with this?" returned Mr. Gordon.
No; the matter has been fully talked over, and the young lady must stay." Ned was about to make a further effort on Sibylla's behalf, but the girl herself stopped him. "Humble yourself no more to these men!" she said; "it will be of no avail, I can clearly see. And trouble not yourself on my behalf. God is able to protect me even here; His will be done!"
She had everything that any reasonable mind could possibly desire, every comfort; but quiet comfort and Sibylla's taste did not accord. Her husband was out a great deal at Verner's Pride and on the estate. As he had resolved to do over John Massingbird's dinner-table, so he was doing putting his shoulder to the wheel. He had never looked after things as he was looking now.
There was nothing surprising in Sibylla's marrying her cousin Fred, for many had shrewdly suspected that the favour between them was not altogether cousinly favour; but the surprise was given to the hasty marriage. Dr. West vouchsafed an explanation. Two of his daughters, aged respectively one year and two years younger than Amilly, had each died of consumption, as all Deerham knew.
John, caught in the shower near Deerham Court, made no scruple of running to it for shelter, and was in time to witness Sibylla's angry tones and inflamed face. What precisely happened Lionel could never afterwards recall. He remembered John's free and easy salutation, "What's the row?" he remembered Sibylla's torrent of words in answer.
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