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She listened only half-convinced, yet still she listened. Anne Valery did the same, though she took no part in the argument Only continually her eyes wandered to Nathanael, less with smiling heart-warm affection than with the pensive tenderness with which one watches a dead likeness revived in a living face. At last, when he had expressed all he could everything except entreaty or complaint Mr.
'May God be praised for all that I have, with His aid, been able to do in His cause, said Louis, with a faltering voice, and tears rolling down his cheeks, as he entered his pavilion. 'On my faith, sir prior, said John de Valery, with the tone of a man who has a presentiment of coming calamity, 'I marvel how you can speak of this day's work as a triumph of our arms.
"Ay, that we will, though I suppose I am not so rich as Miss Valery. Still, we have enough to help poor people have we not?" She appealed gaily to Mr. Harper, but he replied nothing. She persisted: "We need not give much, since Mr. Trenchard and Miss Valery are both on the list before us. We'll give let me see fifty pounds.
"Agatha," said Miss Valery, after a pause, during which she had closely observed both the young people "I may call you Agatha, for the sake of my friend here, may I not?" "Yes," was the low answer. "Well then, Agatha, shall you and I have a little talk? We need not mind that foolish boy; he was a boy, just so high, when I first knew him.
And once again wistfully gazing at him, she threw her arms round his neck, murmuring, "My own my own!" The church-bells ceased, the breakfast was removed, and the husband and wife sat together. "Somebody," said Nathanael, suddenly "somebody ought to go and see Anne Valery this Christmas-day. "Does she know?" "She knew last night. Marmaduke said he should ride over and tell her."
"Why are you leaving me, Agatha?" "Because I thought I imagined, perhaps you wished" "I wish to have you with me always. Anne knows," and he looked pointedly at Miss Valery, "that I shall never respond to, and most certainly never volunteer, any confidence to either her or my father that I do not share with my wife. She has the first claim, and what is not hers no other person shall obtain."
Valery, I forgot to tell thee that an envoy from Flanders to-day, amongst other news, brought me some, that may interest thee. There is a strong commotion in thy brother Tostig's Northumbrian earldom, and the rumour runs that his fierce vassals will drive him forth and select some other lord: talk was of the sons of Algar so I think ye called the stout dead Earl.
Agatha sat a little way off, watching her, and wondering what could be the strange influence which always made her take delight in watching Anne Valery. There is something very peculiar in this admiration which one woman occasionally conceives for another, generally much older than herself.
Swiftly the wonderful fabric sped forward upon her homeward way, and, without incident of any kind worthy of mention, and almost at the very minute calculated upon, the waters of the English Channel were sighted; an unobserved descent being effected some twenty miles seaward of the little town of Saint Valery on the French coast.
Again I seem to find myself under your friendly roof; again to greet my provident host entering that gothic chamber in which I had been permitted to establish my unsocial study, heralding the advent of majestic folios, and heaping libraries round the unworthy work. Valery?
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