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Waddington's temperature leapt up again, and the doctor owned that he didn't like that. And Barbara found Fanny in the library, crying. She had been tidying up his writing-table, going over all his papers with a feather brush, and she had come on the manuscript of the Ramblings unfinished. "Fanny " "Barbara, I know I'm an idiot, but I simply cannot bear it.
When he's off in his car 'rounding up the county." "When he's 'off, I'm 'on' as Mrs. Waddington's companion." "Fanny won't mind. She'll let you do anything you like. At any rate, she'll let me do anything I like." "Will you ask her?" "Of course I shall." So they settled it. When Barbara said to herself that Mr.
"I mean about the typhoid, sir, and Lady Idlemay's refusal to have the drains put in order." Mr. Waddington's expression for a few moments was an interesting and instructive study. His jaw had fallen, but he was still too bewildered to realize the situation properly. "But who told him?" he gasped. "I did," Burton replied gently. "I could not possibly let him remain in ignorance of the facts."
As Madame Waddington's is not one of the picturesque ouvroirs she has found it difficult to keep it going, and no doubt contributes all she can spare of what the war has left of her own income. Moreover, she is on practically every important war relief committee, sometimes as honorary president, for her name carries great weight, often as vice-president or as a member of the "conseil."
And presently it appeared that two pages were missing. One evening, the evening of Mr. Waddington's return, looking for the lost pages, Barbara made her great discovery: a sheaf of manuscript, a hundred and twenty pages in Ralph's handwriting, hidden away at the back of the bureau, crumpled as if an inimical hand had thrust it out of sight. She took it up to bed and read it there.
Waddington's commercial enterprises had not caused him to live in London, though he had been required to be there frequently. Mr. Bertram had, therefore, seen more of him than of his own daughter. The infant had been born in the house of the Bakers, and there she was brought up. As an orphan of four years old, she had come under the care of Mary Baker, and under her care she remained.
On that afternoon Miss Waddington's ride was much more energetic, and on that evening Miss Baker did not think it necessary to catch a curate to drink wine with George Bertram. He was made quite at home, and given to understand that he had better leave the dining-room when the ladies did so.
I was never locked into my room, and I could at all times pass into the yard, and was within call of the turnkey and his family; and the communication to my friend Mr. Waddington's apartments was always open. In fact, it would have been truly ridiculous had it been otherwise. The same apartments which I inhabited had been previously occupied by Mr.
And Barbara, seated on Ralph's carrier, explored the countryside and mapped out Mr. Waddington's course for him. "She's worth a dozen Ralph Bevins," he would say. And he would go to the door with her and see her start. "You mustn't let yourself be victimized by Ralph," he said. He glanced at the carrier. "Do you think it's safe?" "Quite safe. If it isn't it'll only be a bit more thrilling."
"Now was I dreaming or not?" thought Tom. "I'm going to have a look at that place though, where I saw Waddington's face. Or did I imagine it?" He got a long pole and a powerful flash lamp, and when he had a chance, unobserved, he poked around in the vicinity where he had seen the face. But there was only solid rock. "It must have been a dream," Tom concluded.
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