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Then she lay down again, and it seemed to her that a very long time elapsed. Suddenly recollecting that Trefusis had supported her gently with his hand to prevent her falling back too rudely, she rose again, and this time got upon her feet with his help. "I must go home," she said again. "It is a matter of life or death." "No, no," he said softly. "It is all right. You may depend on me."
The artist lost his temper, and suggested that if Trefusis could not feel that the prerogative of art was divine, perhaps he could understand that a painter was not such a fool as to design a tomb for five pounds when he might be painting a portrait for a thousand.
The light was growing ruddy, and the shadows were lengthening. Trefusis was still prostrate in the meadow, and the old woman was in a field, gathering hemlock. Erskine raced down the hill at full speed, and did not look behind him again until he found himself at nightfall on the skirts of a town, where he purchased some beer and a sandwich, which he ate with little appetite.
"A baronet sign such a petition!" exclaimed Trefusis. "I did not think of asking you. I only show it to you as an interesting historical document, containing the autographs of a few artists and poets. There is Donovan Brown's for example.
This was the movement that excited the derision of Wickens's boy in the adjacent gravel pit. Trefusis was glad of the interruption; and, when he gave the boy twopence and bade him begone, half hoped that he would insist on remaining.
"I shall walk along the shore towards Trefusis Point to-morrow morning. If you should chance to be similarly disposed...." She laughed, and rose in her turn. "I shall be there, dear Noll." "'Twere best so hereafter," he assured her, smiling, and so took his leave.
Paul Trefusis might thus have been able to lay by a store for the time when the dame could no longer trudge over the country as she had hitherto done, and he unable to put off with nets or lines to catch fish; but often for weeks together the gales of that stormy coast prevented him from venturing to sea, and the vegetables and potatoes produced in his garden, and the few fish he and Michael could catch in the harbour, were insufficient to support their little household, so that at the end of each year Paul found himself no richer than at the beginning.
Meanwhile, Trefusis was fulfilling his promise to write to Donovan Brown. "Sallust's House. "Dear Brown: I have spent the forenoon angling for a couple of very young fish, and have landed them with more trouble than they are worth. One has gaudy scales: he is a baronet, and an amateur artist, save the mark.
"They have offered, in the handsomest manner, to arrest me if Sir Charles will give me in charge," said Trefusis. "There!" said Lady Jane, turning to her husband. "Why don't you give him or someone in charge?" "You know nothing about it," said Sir Charles, vexed by a sense that she was publicly making him ridiculous. "If you don't, I will," she persisted.
Then they parted; Sir Charles assuring Trefusis that he had never spent a more interesting morning, and shaking hands with him at considerable length three times.
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