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"He loves you like his own soul!" Was not that how she loved him, and was she not here in England to tell him so? The question startled her, as though some one else had put it to her, and was waiting for an answer. That, surely, was not her object; and yet, if not, what was? From the hour when she read Sydney's letter at Florence she seemed to have had a new motive power within her.
I cannot express too strongly to you, Hubert, how much I now wish I had!" "Why?" "I misunderstood her," said his cousin slowly. "I thought that she had a heart, and that she was grieving innocently perhaps over Sydney's death." "Well, was she not?" "I don't think so. If she ever cared for him at all, it was because she wanted the ease and luxury that he could give her.
The pressure of official business had prevented him from examining the case before, but had he reviewed the testimony, he would assuredly have granted the prisoner a reprieve. The dying confession of the burglar, the husband of the murdered woman, left not the slightest doubt of Mr. Sydney's innocence; and His Excellency concluded by ordering the prisoner's immediate discharge from custody.
Rex looked at his brother in deep perplexity, his handsome brow wrinkled with the anxiety Sydney's appearance and demeanor were causing him. "You will know soon enough, Reggie, and then promise me that you will try to think of me as friendly as you can; not give away utterly to your contempt. It was partly for y . No, I will not say that. No, go home, Rex.
Not having heard from Captain Bennydeck for some little time, Randal thought it desirable in Sydney's interests to make inquiries at his club. Nothing was known of the Captain's movements there. On the chance of getting the information that he wanted, Randal wrote to the hotel at Sandyseal. The landlord's reply a little surprised him. Some days since, the yacht had again appeared in the bay.
Instead, when he came up to the canal, he bent down, seized the plank, and pitched it into the deep trench which ran rapidly and carried it off toward the marsh. "Now go; and God bless you all!" cried Sydney, and he turned back and went toward the prison. There was no possibility of undoing Sydney's sacrificial work. "No use waiting," cried Geoffrey. "In seven minutes we shall be missed.
Catherine's sense of justice felt the force of that reply. At the same time her sense of injury set its own construction on Sydney's motive. "Has his cruelty driven you away from him?" she asked. "If he has been cruel to me," Sydney answered, "do you think I should have come here to complain of it to You? Do me the justice to believe that I am not capable of such self-degradation as that.
Friedrich was leaning over Sydney's chair. "It is still in the family, I should say. It merely has changed its abiding-place." A spasm which was the recognition of defeat, not the anguish of loss, went over Hilda's face. She crossed the room to Mrs. Carroll, von Sternburg following slowly after. "Dear Mrs.
After dinner they had gone upstairs to the members' smoking room, in a comfortable corner of which they were lazily continuing their conversation. It turned by chance on a certain barrister of Sydney's inn, a Mr. Barrington Baynes, whom one of the party not incorrectly described as "that beautiful, bumptious, and briefless barrister, B. B."
His eye involuntarily glanced at the address of the letter and read young Sydney's name. Then, conscious of his mistake, he thrust it into his pocket with a hasty "Good morning," and left Miss Muir standing with one hand pressed on her heart, the other half extended as if to recall the letter.
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