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You thought you had burnt the telegraphic message, but you had only burnt a part of it the remainder is in my possession." Lieutenant Maldon was quite sober now. "What have I done?" he murmured, hopelessly. "Oh, my God! what have I done?" "At two o'clock on the 7th of September last," continued the pitiless, accusing voice, "George Talboys was seen alive and well at a house in Essex."
"Now, Miss Fountain, your boat is dry, but the sea is getting up, and I think, if I were you, I would stay where you are." "I mean to," said the lady, calmly. "Mr. Talboys, would you mind coming into this boat? We shall be safer here; it it is larger." The gentleman thus addressed was embarrassed between two mortifications, one on each side him.
In plainer, crueler words I believe him to be dead. Am I bound to discover how and where he died? or being, as I think, on the road to that discovery, shall I do a wrong to the memory of George Talboys by turning back or stopping still? What am I to do? what am I to do?" He rested his elbows on his knees, and buried his face in his hands.
The first minute Jack will be wretched, and want to sink through the floor; but in five minutes you will fancy Lucy will have made Jack Absolom at home in my drawing-room. He will be laying down the law about Jonquilles, and she all sweetness, curiosity, and enthusiasm outside ennui in." "Can her eyes glisten out of politeness?" inquired Talboys, with a subdued sneer. "Why not?"
"I have not come to intrude upon you at the Court, my dear uncle," said the young man, as the baronet shook him by the hand in his own hearty fashion. "Essex is my native county, you know, and about this time of year I generally have a touch of homesickness; so George and I have come down to the inn for two or three day's fishing." "George George who?" "George Talboys."
"Look down upon that countless multitude." Mackinnon looked down, and saw three groups of French soldiers, with three or four little men in each group; he saw also a couple of dirty friars, and three priests very slowly beginning the side ascent to the church of the Ara Coeli. "Look down upon that countless multitude," said Mrs. Talboys, and she stretched her arms out over the half-deserted city.
But there was generally a third person who assisted in the constitutional promenades, and that third person was Clara Talboys, who used to walk by her father's side, more beautiful than the morning for that was sometimes dull and cloudy, while she was always fresh and bright in a broad-leaved straw-hat and flapping blue ribbons, one quarter of an inch of which Mr.
Mackinnon was the last to see another woman suffer from ill-usage without attempting to aid her. "I certainly never liked her," Mrs. Mackinnon said afterwards; "but I was bound to go and hear her tale, when she really had a tale to tell." And Mrs. Talboys now had a tale to tell, if she chose to tell it.
I cannot tell how long he sat blankly staring at one paragraph among the list of deaths, before his dazed brain took in its full meaning; but after considerable pause he pushed the newspaper over to Robert Audley, and with a face that had changed from its dark bronze to a sickly, chalky grayish white, and with an awful calmness in his manner, he pointed with his finger to a line which ran thus: "On the 24th inst., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Helen Talboys, aged 22."
They walked slowly back to the cottage, and once more George Talboys told the history of that desertion which had seemed so cruel. He told, too, of the twenty thousand pounds banked by him the day before.
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