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He never could have been meant to be your brother and my son!" Lucy laughed at the recollection. She had had the pleasure of beholding the spectacle. Lionel laughed now at the description. Their mirth did not please Lady Verner. She was serious in her complaint. "Lionel, you would not have liked it yourself. Fancy his turning out of Verner's Pride in that guise, and encountering visitors!
John Massingbird perhaps in his eagerness to contradict her as much as in his regard to make known the truth had answered her all too effectually before Lionel could stop him. Words that burned into the brain of Sibylla Verner, and turned the current of her life's pulses.
Any trouble coming to me I can battle with." "Well, Lionel, the returned man is John Massingbird." "John Mass ingbird!" Of all the birds in the air and the fishes in the sea as the children say he was the very last to whom Lionel Verner had cast a thought. That it was John who had returned, had not entered his imagination. He had never cast a doubt on the fact of his death.
"I can testify that the codicil was locked in the desk, and the desk was then returned to the closet, for I happened to be present," spoke up Dr. West. "I was one of the witnesses to the codicil, as I had been to the will. Mr. Verner must have moved it himself to some safer place." "What place could be safer than the desk in his own bedroom?" cried the lawyer.
She took this house, Deerham Court, then to be let without the land, had it embellished inside and out which cost her more than she could afford, and had since resided in it. She would not have rented under Mr. Verner had he paid her to do it. She declined all intercourse with Verner's Pride; had never put her foot over its threshold. Decima went once in a way; but she, never.
"Who?" sharply interrupted Sibylla. Mr. Gordon looked surprised. Her tone had betrayed something of eager alarm, not to say terror. "Captain Cannonby, Mrs. Verner. A friend of mine just returned from Australia. Business took him to Paris as soon as he landed." "Is he from the Melbourne port? Is his Christian name Lawrence?" she reiterated breathlessly. "Yes to both questions," replied Mr. Gordon.
Verner, the subsequent death of Frederick; and above all for that would have told most on John of the strange will left by Mr. Verner, which had constituted him the inheritor of Verner's Pride. But fortune did not come in the rapid manner fondly expected by John. The nuggets seemed shy. He obtained enough to rub along with, and that was all. The life did not ill suit him.
Malt liquor had been expressly forbidden to Mrs. Verner. It made her cough frightfully. "You know, ma'am, the doctors have said " "Will you hold your tongue? And give me what I require? You are as bad as Mr. Verner." Catherine reached a tumbler, poured it half full, and handed it. Mrs. Verner did not take it. "Fill it," she said.
Verner inquired, with incredulity equally evident, whether that was sufficient to put her into the state of tremor spoken of by young Broom. Mrs. Roy hung her head. "I'm timid at quarrels, 'specially if it's at night," she faintly answered. "And was it just the hearing of that quarrel that made you sink down on your knees, and clasp hold of a tree?" continued Mr. Verner. Upon which Mrs.
The elder son Captain Verner then paid one visit only to England, during which visit he married, and took his wife out with him when he went back. These long-continued separations, however much we may feel inclined to gloss over the fact, do play strange havoc with home affections, wearing them away inch by inch. The years went on and on.
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