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Ratcliffe, she would make his life a burden and I hope she will," concluded Sybil with a spiteful little explosion of hatred. Carrington could not help being amused by Sybil's way of dealing with affairs of the heart.
Only his anxiety for Sybil's safety so much disturbed his repose, that if he did but drop into an instant's slumber he started from it in a vague fright. So the small hours of the morning wore on and brought the dull, drizzly, wintry daylight. Meanwhile Lyon and Sybil Berners rode on through mist and rain. "The chapel was a ruin old, That stood so low, in lonely glen.
The letters of the elder portion of our party contained but a description of Gibraltar, which is well known to most people. Sybil's letter was as follows: "Gibraltar, May 16, 18 "Here we are safe on dry land again, and who would have believed a fortnight ago that we should have been so glad to get out of our dear La Luna.
The road was as difficult and dangerous as it was lonely and unfrequented. Lyon and Sybil rode on together in silence, bending their heads before the driving mist, and keeping close to the banks of the river until they should reach the fording place. At length Sybil's anguish broke forth in words. "Oh! Lyon, is this nightmare?
Brooks sat as one stupefied, and then a sudden warm touch upon his hand sent the blood coursing once more through his veins. Sybil's fingers lay for a moment upon his. She smiled kindly at him. Lord Arranmore's voice once more broke the short silence. "The individual was my greatest disappointment," he continued. "Young and old, all were the same.
Edith knew a short cut, and took them between rows of graves, regardless of Sybil's protesting shudders, to a tiny stile that led down an alley to the riverside. Here there was a tumbledown wharf, and an old ferryboat which worked on a chain.
Jimmy was not the man to allow any one he knew to pass by, although for once in a way Carrissima would sooner have avoided the encounter. "Have you heard from Sybil lately?" she asked. "Oh yes, she's still with old Lady Ramsbottom enjoying herself to the top of her bent, no doubt! You may be certain Sybil's having a rattling good time! She always revels in illness.
As soon as he had reached them, the gate was shut, and the usual guard placed to watch the proceedings of the Indians outside. The young ladies, who had agreed to take a ride with Norman, were somewhat disappointed on finding that Captain Mackintosh considered it would be imprudent for them to go outside the fort while Sybil's admirer remained in the neighbourhood.
Never for a single moment did Lord Arthur regret all that he had suffered for Sybil's sake, while she, on her side, gave him the best things a woman can give to any man worship, tenderness, and love. For them romance was not killed by reality. They always felt young.
She had honestly supposed that Sybil's interests and Sybil's happiness were forcing her to an act of self-sacrifice; and now she saw that in the depths of her soul very different motives had been at work: ambition, thirst for power, restless eagerness to meddle in what did not concern her, blind longing to escape from the torture of watching other women with full lives and satisfied instincts, while her own life was hungry and sad.
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