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Bruff's house? and where was she living now? She was living under the care of a widowed sister of the late Sir John Verinder one Mrs. Merridew whom her mother's executors had requested to act as guardian, and who had accepted the proposal. They were reported to me as getting on together admirably well, and as being now established, for the season, in Mrs. Merridew's house in Portland Place.
It is just eight o'clock. He is beginning to move for the first time. Miss Verinder is kneeling by the side of the sofa. She has so placed herself that when his eyes first open, they must open on her face. Shall I leave them together? Yes! Eleven o'clock. The house is empty again. They have arranged it among themselves; they have all gone to London by the ten o'clock train.
The true story of the broken marriage engagement comes first in point of time, and must therefore take the first place in the present narrative. Tracing my way back along the chain of events, from one end to the other, I find it necessary to open the scene, oddly enough as you will think, at the bedside of my excellent client and friend, the late Sir John Verinder.
You will agree with me that the necessary information about persons in the position of Lady Verinder and Mr. Blake, would be perfectly easy information to obtain.
And they came in and he says, very frank and cheery 'Mr. Verinder, he says, 'Lilian and I have made up our minds to take each other, with your consent, for better, for worse. And uncle was as pleased as Punch; and as for me, I didn't believe in God then, or I should have prayed Him to strike them both down dead as they stood. Why did I hate them so?
Delicacy left me but one alternative the alternative, after first making my apologies, of taking my leave. Lady Verinder stopped me, and insisted on my sitting down again. "You have surprised a secret," she said, "which I had confided to my sister Mrs. Ablewhite, and to my lawyer Mr. Bruff, and to no one else.
It might have gone on from bad to worse till it ended in Murder; and I should still have said to myself, The natural result! oh, dear, dear, the natural result! The one thing that DID shock me was the course my aunt had taken under the circumstances. Here surely was a case for a clergyman, if ever there was one yet! Lady Verinder had thought it a case for a physician.
I thought of the bluish tinge which I had noticed in her complexion. A light which was not of this world a light shining prophetically from an unmade grave dawned on my mind. My aunt's secret was a secret no longer. Consideration for poor Lady Verinder forbade me even to hint that I had guessed the melancholy truth, before she opened her lips.
"I told you I was uneasy about her," he said. "And now you see why." "Miss Verinder appears to be a little out of temper about the loss of her Diamond," remarked the Sergeant. "It's a valuable jewel. Natural enough! natural enough!" A kind of cold shudder ran through me, which I couldn't account for at the time. "A young lady's tongue is a privileged member, sir," says the Sergeant to Mr.
We have decided that you leave off the habit of smoking from this moment." "From this moment?" "That is the first step. The next step is to reproduce, as nearly as we can, the domestic circumstances which surrounded you last year." How was this to be done? Lady Verinder was dead. Rachel and I, so long as the suspicion of theft rested on me, were parted irrevocably.
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