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"He said Ronnie told him he had never felt fitter in his life, and added that he looked it." Dick leapt to his feet, walked over to the window, and muffled a few remarks about Aubrey Treherne, in the curtains. Nevertheless Helen heard them. "Is Ronnie ill?" she asked, with trembling lips. Dick came back. "Ronnie is desperately ill, Mrs. West.
And he got up from the table; the rest followed, and the group broke up on the lawn. "Remarkable man, Treherne," said the American to the lawyer conversationally. "Remarkable is the word," assented Ashe rather grimly. "But I don't think I'll make any remark about him."
Even Treherne was not discouraged from his occasional visits with a view to helping the hunt for the lost man. The five held many counsels round the old garden table, at which the unhappy master of the house had dined for the last time; and Barbara wore her old mask of stone, if it was now a more tragic mask.
My father being a sober, steady man, having saved more of his pay and prize-money than had most of his shipmates, when he left the service bought a wherry, hired and furnished a house, and married my mother, Polly Treherne, the daughter of a bumboat-woman who plied her trade in Portsmouth Harbour.
Then he turned, took up an empty tumbler from the table behind him, smelt it, and looked at Aubrey Treherne. "I thought so," he said. "You meant well, no doubt. But don't do it again. Drugs to produce sleep may occasionally be necessary, but should only be given under careful medical supervision.
"He's gone," said Treherne, with a clang of finality in his tones, like the slamming of a door. "Well, suppose he has?" cried the lawyer, roused at the voice. "The Squire can go into his own wood, I suppose! What the devil's all the fuss about, Mr. Paynter? Don't tell me you think there's any harm in that plantation of sticks."
"I trust it may prove so " Mrs. Snowdon got no further, for at that moment dinner was announced, and Sir Jasper took her away. Annon approached with him and offered his arm to Miss Treherne, but with an air of surprise, and a little gesture of refusal, she said coldly: "My cousin always takes me in to dinner. Be good enough to escort the major."
Bidding Jasper and the major help Treherne to his room without delay, she begged Rose to comfort her sister, who was sobbing hysterically, and as they all obeyed her, she led her daughter away to her own apartment, for the festivities of the evening were at an end. At the same time Mrs.
What a blessed thing it is to minister to the necessities of others! How happy I felt in the knowledge that they would sleep peacefully and well that night! I had been for some time musing in a corner of the room, when I was roused by the loud voice of the Liberal. "Well, I tell you what, Treherne, I'll bet you five to one on the game." "Done!" said Treherne. "Crowns?" added the Liberal.
Isn't it wonderful?" "It is very wonderful," said Aubrey Treherne. "Your Infant is all you hoped. The tone is perfect. But what is still more wonderful is that you who believe yourself never to have handled a 'cello before can set the strings vibrating with such unerring skill; such complete mastery. Of course, to me, the mystery is no mystery. The reason of it all is perfectly clear."
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