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He had no more idea of using his hands than a fractious baby; but it is rather a serious thing when sixteen stone of solid flesh becomes possessed by a devil. Robin Oig was overborne by the onset, and did not forget the effects of it that season." Tresilyan laughed applaudingly, as he always did when he could understand more than half a story.
Arguing with the latter was simply absurd; for this reason, if for no other, that from the moment his feelings became really interested, no amount of diplomacy would have induced him to enter upon the subject. Harry went about with a miserable, helpless sense of complicity weighing him down, which was much aggravated by a few words which dropped one morning from Dick Tresilyan.
They had almost reached home when he spoke again, "You would have been liberal in your promises twenty minutes ago if I had not stopped you, Miss Tresilyan. I should like to have some memorial of to-day. Very childish, is it not? Will you give me this? I deserve something for saving that pretty parasol."
Sir Ewes Tresilyan was a man of strong passions and rather weak brain of few words and fewer sympathies; he never made a companion of Mabel, his daughter, though his love for her was the feeling next his heart, after his almost insane pride; but he trusted her implicitly less because he had faith in her truth and goodness, than because he held it as impossible for a Tresilyan to disgrace herself or otherwise derogate, as for the moon to fall from heaven.
Sir Ewes knelt down and lifted Arthur's head upon his knee not in pity, but that he might hear the more distinctly "I will tell you," he said; "you have wooed a Tresilyan like a yeoman's daughter." The homicide wrote in his confession of all this that, as he laid the head gently down, a smile came upon the lips before they set.
Now I don't think I ought to be telling you all this: it is not quite a woman's story." "Please go on. I like it." How grandly it flashed up in her cheek as she spoke the fiery Tresilyan blood that had boiled in the veins of so many brilliant soldiers, but through twenty generations had never cooled down enough to breed one statesman! He had taken breath by this time.
Beet-root and turnips will not succeed on every soil. It must be long before a remunerative crop of these can be gathered from the breezy upland which for centuries, till the heather was burned, has worn a robe of uncommercial but imperial purple. Nevertheless, Miss Tresilyan frowned perceptibly.
Miss Tresilyan had taken unconsciously an attitude in which you saw her once before, half-reclined, and gazing into the fire; outwardly still remained the same pensive, languid grace; but very different was the careless reverie that had stolen over her then, from the wild chaos of conflicting thoughts that involved her now.
I fear that Major Keene's pernicious example is indeed contagious, and that his evil communications have corrupted many alas! too many." He rounded off the period with a ponderous professional sigh. Miss Tresilyan was leaning back in her arm-chair: as the wood-fire sprang up brightly and sank again suddenly, her great deep eyes seemed to flash back the fitful gleams.
With a sigh of admiration "What an excellent man, and how well he talks!" said Bessie Danvers. With a sigh of relief "He talks a great deal, and it is very late," said Cecil Tresilyan. From his "coign of vantage" in the reading-desk the next morning, Mr.
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