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Updated: June 12, 2025
Afterwards befell the meeting with Rose Varcoe; and he thought of how he praised his friend Lepage to her, and brought him to be introduced to her. He recalled all those visions that came to him when, his professional triumphs achieved, he should have a happy home, and happy faces by his fireside.
Strange." He sighed, and unconsciously touched the scar on his brow. His dealings with the Belwards had not been all joy. Begun with youthful pride and affectionate interest, they had gone on into vexation, sorrow, failure, and shame. While Gaston was riding into his kingdom, Lionel Henry Varcoe was thinking how poor his life had been where he had meant it to be useful.
It put him in mind of home: but he had no silly tender thoughts to waste on home, or the folks there. He had never written to them. If they should happen on the copy of the Gazette and the chances were hundred to one against it the name of Nathaniel Varcoe among the killed or wounded would mean nothing to them.
Soon, however, a warning glance from his wife brought him back and saved Lady Dargan from collapse; for it seemed impossible to talk alone to this ghost of her past. At this moment Gaston heard a voice near: "As like as if he'd stepped out of the picture, if it weren't for the clothes. A Gaston too!" The speaker was Lord Dargan. He was talking to Archdeacon Varcoe.
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