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For the first time in her experience of the sisters her heart led her instinctively to the elder of the two. Norah was still in her own room. She was sitting on the couch by the window, with her mother's old music-book the keepsake which Mrs. Vanstone had found in her husband's study on the day of her husband's death spread open on her lap.
Noel Vanstone of coming to the house in the character of a sweetheart on approval; and she had dimly interpreted certain expressions of impatience which had fallen from Magdalen's lips as boding ill for the success of his suit, but her utmost penetration had never reached as far as a suspicion of the impending marriage.
She passed through the garden gates little thinking from what new difficulty and new danger her timely departure had saved her. The letter which the postman had just delivered into the housekeeper's hands was no other than the anonymous letter addressed to Noel Vanstone by Captain Wragge.
She takes the highest moral ground, in a tone of spiteful politeness. Mr. Noel Vanstone's delicate health and recent bereavement prevent him from writing himself. Any more letters from Miss Vanstone will be returned unopened. Any personal application will produce an immediate appeal to the protection of the law. Mr.
On the fourth morning Noel Vanstone came down to breakfast conscious of the mistake that he had committed on the previous day. The obvious course to take, for the purpose of gaining time, was to declare that his mind was still undecided. He made the assertion boldly when the housekeeper asked him if he meant to move that day. Again Mrs.
"Then we are in time, Bates?" Lady Calmady had asked, desiring further assurance. "I hope so, my lady. But I would advise your coming as quickly as possible." "Is he conscious?" "He knew Captain Vanstone this morning, my lady, just before I left." The man-servant shouldered the crowd aside unceremoniously, so as to force a passage for Lady Calmady.
I then remarked that Miss Vanstone had only taken one of her three boxes with her and it now occurred to me that a private investigation of the luggage she had left behind might possibly be attended with beneficial results.
We've tried persuasion and we've tried threats it's no earthly use. Not a basket more coal will they put on board before five to-morrow morning." "Can't we sail with what we have got?" "Not enough to carry us to Port Said." "What will be the extent of the delay this time?" Richard asked. His tone had an edge to it. Again Captain Vanstone glanced at the valet.
I say, No mathematics, no industry, no ambition, no firmness of purpose. Frank is a compound of negatives and there they are." "Hang your negatives!" shouted Mr. Vanstone. "I don't care a rush for negatives, or affirmatives either. Frank shall have this splendid chance; and I'll lay you any wager you like he makes the best of it." "I am not rich enough to lay wagers, usually," replied Mr.
She dropped the blind which she had raised to look out, returned to her trunk, and took from it the gray wig which was part of her dramatic costume in the character of the North-country lady. The wig had been crumpled in packing; she put it on and went to the toilet-table to comb it out. "His father has warned him against Magdalen Vanstone," she said, repeating the passage in Mrs.
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