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When we reached the studio the servant said that Mr. Wilderspin was much indisposed that afternoon, and was also just getting ready to go to Paris, where he was to join Mr. Cyril in his studio; 'but perhaps he would see us, an announcement that brought a severe look to my mother's face, and another half-suppressed 'Haw, haw! from Sleaford's deep chest.
My first exclamation was 'Dead! Have I been ill? and I tried to raise myself in vain. 'Yes, very ill, said a voice, my mother's. 'Dangerously? 'For several days you were in danger. Your recovery now entirely depends upon your keeping yourself calm. 'I am out at sea? 'Yes, said my mother; 'in Lord Sleaford's yacht. 'How did I come here?
The result was that I was obliged to yield to the importunities of my mother, and to the urgent advice of Dr. Finch, to remain on board Sleaford's yacht during the entire cruise, and afterwards to go with them to Italy. Absence from England gave me not the smallest respite from the grief that was destroying me. My parting with my mother was a very pathetic one.
Shall you be alone this evening? 'This evening I dine at Sleaford's. To-morrow I am due in Paris. Wilderspin, who had now entered the studio, seemed genuinely pleased to see me again, and told me that in a few days he should be able to borrow 'Faith and Love' of its owner for the purpose of beginning a replica of it, and hoped then to have the pleasure of showing it to me. 'I observed Mrs.
When I met my mother at the solicitor's office next day, she was astonished at my cheerfulness and at the general change in me. As we left the office together, she said, 'Everything is now arranged: your aunt and I have decided to accept Lord Sleaford's invitation to go for a cruise in his yacht. We leave to-morrow evening. Lord Sleaford has promised to take me to-morrow afternoon to Mr.
Cyril had already, during the morning, told me that my mother, who was much out of health, was now staying in London, where he had for the first time in his life met her at Lord Sleaford's house. Notwithstanding their differences of opinion, my mother and he seemed to have formed a mutual liking.
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