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She left nothing unsaid. Finally, she apologized for the plainness of her dress. "You must think me a slattern, Mr. Torridon, but I cannot help it. I have not the heart nor the means, now that my man is in prison, to do better." And her solemn eyes filled with tears.
James, Lady Maxwell, and Mistress Torridon had all taken up submissive and complacent attitudes in the middle distance.
"Well, come in, Chris. I do not understand; but if you both think so " He broke off and opened the door. Lady Torridon was gone to her room; and the two girls were alone. Beatrice was standing before the hearth with her hands behind her back a gallant upright figure; as they came in, she turned a cheerful face to them.
Sir James was down with the foresters and hounds at the further end of the terrace, arranging the details of the day; Margaret had not yet come out of chapel, and Lady Torridon, who had had a long fit of silence, was standing with Mary and Nicholas at the head of the central stairs that led down from the terrace to the gravel.
His books, too, which his servant, John Wood, had brought from Chelsea, and which had not yet been taken from him, stood about the room, and several lay on the table among his papers, at which he was writing when Ralph was admitted by the warder. "I am very glad to see you, Mr. Torridon," he said, "I knew you would not forget an old friend, even though he could not take your counsel.
"He burned them, my Lord, because he could not bear that his hand should be lifted against his master. Surely that is but loyal and good!" The Archbishop nodded quietly three or four times. "And you desire that his Grace will take order to have Mr. Torridon released?" "That is it, my Lord," said the lawyer. "Yes, I understand. And can you give any pledge for Mr. Torridon's good behaviour?"
"The fellows do not know their fortune; they might lead such sweet meditative lives; they do not, I am well aware, for I have never heard such blasphemy as I have heard from wherrymen. But what opportunities are theirs! If I were not your father, my darling, I would be a wherryman. Si cognovisses et tu quae ad pacem tibi! Mr. Torridon, would you not be a wherryman if you were not Mr. Torridon?"
Torridon will be treated in the same way. If it be the former, we can do nothing but wait and prepare our case. If it be the latter, we must do our utmost to keep his name out of the bill." He went on to explain his reasons for thinking that a bill of attainder would be brought against Cromwell.
He saw to his astonishment that the priest's melancholy face, as the starlight fell on it, was smiling. "Why, yes, Sir James. She is happy enough." "But my wife " "Sir James, I think Mistress Atherton may do her good. She " he hesitated. "Well?" said the old man. "She Lady Torridon has met her match," said the chaplain, still smiling. Sir James made a little gesture of bewilderment.
Torridon. I sometimes think that as it was with Christ's natural body so it is with His mystical body: there be some members, His hands and feet and side, through which the nails are thrust, though indeed there is not one whole spot in His body inglorious erit inter viros aspectus ejus nos putavimus eum quasi leprosum but those parts of His body that are especially pained are at once more honourable and more happy than those that are not.
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