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It was true; but Eric didn't know that half the kindness which Montagu showed to his brother was shown solely for his sake. "Do you know, I've thought of a plan for making you two friends again? I've written to Aunt Trevor to ask him to Fairholm with us next holidays." "Oh, have you? Good Verny! Yes; there we might be friends.
"Dear little Verny, remember, is in a land where God himself wipes away all tears from off all eyes." "Is there anything else you would like?" asked Fanny, to divert his painful thoughts. "I will get you anything in a moment." "Yes, Fanny, dear, there is the medal I got for saving Russell's life, and one or two things which he gave me; ah, poor Edwin, you never knew him!"
"Oh Verny, Verny, darling Verny, speak to me!" he cried in anguish, as he tenderly lifted up the body, and marked how little blood had flowed. But the child's head fell back heavily, and his arms hung motionless beside him, and with a shriek, Eric suddenly caught the look of dead fixity in his blue open eyes. The others had come up.
"Never mind, you shall have my place, Verny," said Eric, as he saw his brother's disappointed look. "Then Wright shall take mine," said Wildney. "O dear no," said Wright, "we wouldn't turn you out for the world. Vernon and I will take an immense walk down the coast instead, and will meet you here as we come back."
Why, I declare you are crying still," said Vernon playfully, as he wiped a tear which had overflowed on his brother's cheek, "aren't you glad that the Doctor has forgiven you?" "Gladder, far gladder than I can say, Verny. O Verny, Verny, I hope your school-life may be happier than mine has been. I would give up all I have, Verny, to have kept free from the sins I have learnt.
I must climb up again." "Do give it up, Verny, there's a good fellow. You can't reach it, and really it's dangerous." "O no, not a bit of it. My head's very steady, and I feel as cool as possible. We mustn't give up; I've only to get at the tree, and then I shall be able to reach the nest from it quite easily." "Well, do take care, that's a dear fellow."
Just as they were pushing off they saw Wright and Vernon running down to the shore towards them, and they waited to see what they wanted. "Couldn't you take us with you?" asked Vernon, breathless with his run. "I'm afraid not, Verny," said Montagu; "the boat won't hold more than six, will it, Jim?" "No, sir, not safely."
The Archbishop was mistaken for John of Bari, of the bedchamber of the late pope, a man of harsh manners and dissolute life, an object of general hatred. Five of the cardinals, Robert of Geneva, Acquasparta, Viviers, Poitou, and De Verny, were seized in their attempt to steal away, and driven back, amid contemptuous hootings, by personal violence.
"Hush!" he whispered; "take no notice; he's been drinking, Verny, and I fear he'll be caught." Vernon instantly sat down, and turned deadly pale. He thought, and he had hoped, that since the day at the "Jolly Herring," his brother had abandoned all such practices, for Eric had been most careful to conceal from him the worst of his failings.
It was a joyous meeting; he gave Fanny a hearty kiss, and put his arm round Vernon's neck, and then held him in front to have a look at him. "How tall you've grown, Verny, and how well you look," he said, gazing proudly at him; and indeed the boy was a brother to be justly proud of.
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