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Rooks were already beginning to build new nests or to mend up old ones, and clamorously called in neighbours to give opinions on difficulties in their architecture. Lady Constantine swerved once from her path, as if she had decided to go to the homestead where Swithin lived; but on second thoughts she bent her steps to the column.
Swithin took but one look at the face, and left the room; the sight, he said afterwards, made him very queer. He went downstairs shaking the whole house, and, seizing his hat, clambered into his brougham, without giving any directions to the coachman. He was driven home, and all the evening sat in his chair without moving.
But she had not reached that stage of action as yet, and the thought was dismissed as quickly as it had come. The new consideration which at present occupied her mind was whether she could have the courage to leave Swithin to himself, as in the original plan, and singly meet her impending trial, despising the shame, till he should return at five-and-twenty and claim her?
The Bishop is a striking man, is he not? 'Yes, rather, said Swithin. 'I think he is much devoted to Lady Constantine, and I am glad of it. Aren't you? 'O yes very, said Swithin, wondering if Tabitha had seen the tender little salutes between Lady Constantine and himself. 'I don't think she cares much for him, added Tabitha judicially.
No communication had reached him from the Bishop, and that looked well. By one ruse and another, as the day went on, he led her away from contemplating the remote possibility of hearing from Swithin, and induced her to look at the worst contingency as her probable fate.
Instead of being round, it was in shape an irregular boulder that had been exposed to the weather for centuries a little scrap pared off here, and a little piece broken away there; the general aim being, nevertheless, to avoid destroying the symmetry of the pudding while taking as much as possible of its substance. 'The fact is, added Swithin, 'the pudding is half gone!
'And what I cannot understand is this, she added; 'how did the Bishop discover that the person behind the bed-curtains was a woman and not a man? Swithin explained that the Bishop had found the bracelet on the bed, and had brought it to him in the churchyard. 'O Swithin, what do you say? Found the coral bracelet? What did you do with it? Swithin clapped his hand to his pocket. 'Dear me!
Louis immediately put together, with that rare diplomatic keenness of which he was proud, the little scene he had witnessed between Tabitha and Swithin during the confirmation, and the Bishop's stern statement as to where he had found the bracelet. He had no longer any doubt that it belonged to her. 'Poor girl! he said to himself, and sang in an undertone
And the pictures crowding on the walls all water-colours save those four Barbizons looking like the foreigners they were, and doubtful customers at that pictures bright and illustrative, "Telling the Bees," "Hey for the Ferry!" and two in the style of Frith, all thimblerig and crinolines, given them by Swithin.
There is even this good in it, that I may now be able to show you some little kindness for all those you have done me, my dear lady. 'Unless for economy's sake, I go and live abroad, at Dinan, Versailles, or Boulogne. Swithin, who had never thought of such a contingency, was earnest in his regrets; without, however, showing more than a sincere friend's disappointment.
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