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Mine was just a child's rapture and it was simply extinguished when I came to know the kind of burden I had to bear. It all faded so quickly, and the reality was so terribly grim. Now now I look on the world with experienced eyes. I am too old." "You think experience destroys romance?" said Tudor. She looked at him. "Don't you?" "No," he said.
All the women of the upper classes wore mourning, and with double reason; for, soon after the news of the Emperor's death reached Brussels, King Philip's second wife, Mary Tudor, of England, also died. Therefore no one noticed that Barbara wore widow's weeds, and she was glad that she could do so without wounding Pyramus.
Woodward, said he coldly, 'and Captain Cuttwater, not with me, that you should speak of that. Mr. Tudor owes me nothing. 'Oh, Harry, Harry, said she, 'do not call him Mr. Tudor pray, pray; now that we are going now that we shall never wound your sight again! do not call him Mr. Tudor. He has done wrong; I do not deny it; but which of us is there that has not?
"I am thinking of the seventh yew tree from the northeast corner of the Tudor garden." What reply I should have offered to this astonishing remark I cannot say, but at that moment the library door burst open unceremoniously, and outlined against the warmly illuminated hall, where sunlight poured down through the dome, I beheld the figure of Inspector Aylesbury.
Salvin's uninspired eastern side of the court containing the entrance was built after a fire in 1852, and is typical of his harsh and unsympathetic work. Behind the Georgian front of the north side of this court, there is a good deal of the fabric of the Tudor buildings, and some of the lecture-rooms, with their oak panelling and big chimneys, are most picturesque.
"Very prudent," said Tudor. "But it is quite unnecessary. I do not misunderstand." He spoke deliberately and coldly. But Phil clenched his hands. The words cut him like a whip. "You refuse to believe me?" he said. Tudor did not answer. "I must trouble you for an answer," Phil said, forcing himself to speak quietly. "As you please," said Tudor, in the same cold tone.
He paced slowly on, and arrived at the outside gate, which led into a square old-fashioned court, such as was common to Tudor times, paved on three sides and planted with formal beds of flowers, the whole surrounded by an ancient wall.
The dear old gabled Tudor house, with its twisted chimneys, looked much the same from the outside, but within, in spite of its wealth of old pictures and cabinets and china, it had contracted the dim, melancholy aspect which is the result of prolonged scarcity of money. Nothing had been spent on the place for years.
The next evening I was refused admittance to Phoebe's room. Miss Locke met me at the door, looking more depressed than usual, and asked me to follow her into the kitchen, where we found Kitty in the rocking-chair by the hearth, dressing her new doll. 'It is just as she treated the vicar and Mr. Tudor, she observed disconsolately.
He did not like Lennox Tudor, but for some reason he always avoided an open disagreement with him. It was of Jeanie that Avery was thinking as she stood there huddled against the railings while the sleet beat a fierce tattoo on her levelled umbrella and streamed from it in rivers on to the ground.
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