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Noel Vanstone, after nervously following his host's example, composed himself to meet the coming ordeal, with reclining head and grasping hands, in the position familiarly associated to all civilized humanity with a seat in a dentist's chair. The captain put down his empty glass and got up again on his pedestal. "We were talking of settlements," he resumed. "I have already mentioned, Mr.
"I didn't say so to papa," said Norah, taking her mother's arm on the way back to the house, "but the bad result of the acting, in my opinion, will be the familiarity it is sure to encourage between Magdalen and Francis Clare." "You are prejudiced against Frank, my love," said Mrs. Vanstone. Norah's soft, secret, hazel eyes sank to the ground; she said no more.
"DEAR MISS GARTH I have just written, with a heavy heart, to my uncle, and I think I owe it to your kind interest in me not to omit writing next to you. "You will feel for my disappointment, I am sure, when I tell you, in the fewest and plainest words, that Miss Vanstone has refused me. "My vanity may have grievously misled me, but I confess I expected a very different result.
Pendril. He confirmed the doctors' interpretation of the law in general terms only; expressed his intention of waiting at the cottage in the hope that a change for the better might yet enable Mrs. Vanstone to see him; and closed his letter without the slightest explanation of his motives, and without a word of reference to the question of the existence, or the non-existence, of Mr.
"I shall feel personally obliged if you will honor me by inclosing that card in your letter," he said. "There is no necessity for my troubling you additionally with a message. My name will be quite sufficient to recall a little family matter to Mrs. Vanstone, which has no doubt escaped her memory. Accept my best thanks. This has been a day of agreeable surprises to me.
Vanstone was the only feeling of which Miss Garth was conscious after she had laid the letter down. Ere long, however, there rose obscurely on her mind a doubt which perplexed and distressed her. Was the explanation which she had just read really as satisfactory and as complete as it professed to be? Testing it plainly by facts, surely not. On the morning of her departure, Mrs.
Anything will do, as long as it doesn't send us to bed at eleven o'clock." Mr. Vanstone sat down composedly under his daughter's flow of language, like a man who was well used to verbal inundation from that quarter. "If I am to be allowed my choice of amusements next time," said the worthy gentleman, "I think a play will suit me better than a concert.
Vanstone, sitting propped up with cushions at the other end of the table, started and looked eagerly at her husband. Mr. Vanstone said nothing, but his air of preoccupation and his unusual seriousness, which not even Magdalen's playfulness affected, proved clearly that something was wrong.
I don't say I can see straight to the end of the good or evil in her I only warn you, her future will be no common one." An hour later, Mr. Pendril left the house; and, by that night's post, Miss Garth dispatched a letter to her sister in London. From Norah Vanstone to Mr. Pendril. "Westmoreland House, Kensington, "August 14th, 1846.
Vanstone to his old friend, with the confession on his lips which would otherwise never have escaped them. Thence came the discovery which had sent him home to summon the lawyer to the house. That summons, again, had produced the inevitable acceleration of the Saturday's journey to Friday; the Friday of the fatal accident, the Friday when he went to his death.
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