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Sir Isaac arrived Immense joy; the doe butts Sir Isaac, who retreating, stands on his hind legs, and, having possessed himself of Waife's crutch, presents fire; the doe in her turn retreats; half an hour afterwards doe and dog are friends. Waife is induced, without much persuasion, to join the rest of the party at dinner. Waife is entreated by George to read a scene or two out of Shakespeare.
George felt that there were at least some others to whom the knowledge of Waife's innocence was imperatively due. Waife is seated by his open window. It is noon; there is sunshine in the pale blue skies an unusual softness in the wintry air. His Bible lies on the table beside him. He has just set his mark in the page, and reverently closed the book. He is alone.
No colonels to scan him with martinet eyes, and hint how to pipeclay a tarnish! Waife's apprehensions gradually allayed and his confidence restored, one fine morning George took leave of his eccentric benefactor. Waife and Sophy stood gazing after him from their garden-gate, the cripple leaning lightly on the child's arm.
It was not in the earlier conferences that took place in Waife's apartment that the subject which had led the old man to Fawley was brought into discussion.
All about him sound as a rock but the heart; that has been horribly worried; something worries it now. His heart may be seen in his eye. Watch his eye; it is missing some face it is accustomed to see." Darrell changed colour. He stole back into Waife's room, and took the old man's hand. Waife returned the pressure, and said: "I was just praying for you and and I am sinking fast.
Thus detected, the angler rose; and Waife, whose attention was directed that way by the bark, saw him, called to Sir Isaac, and said politely, "There is no harm in my dog, sir." The young man muttered some inaudible reply, and, lifting up his rod as in sign of his occupation or excuse for his vicinity, came out from the intervening foliage, and stepped quietly to Waife's side.
Free this wretched tongue from its stammer, and thought and zeal will not stammer whenever you say, 'Keep your promise. I am so glad your little girl is still with you." Waife looked surprised, "Is still with me! why not?" The scholar bit his tongue. That was not the moment to confess; it might destroy all Waife's confidence in. him. He would do so later. "When shall I begin my lesson?"
Accordingly, he took up his abode in a corner of the vast palace, and was easily enabled, when he pleased, to traverse unobserved the solitudes of the park, gain the waterside, or stroll thence through the thick copse leading to Waife's cottage, which bordered the park pales, solitary, sequestered, beyond sight of the neighbouring village.
Waife's well-known pipe, and a tobacco-pouch worked for him by Sophys fairy fingers, lay on a table near the fireplace, between casement and door; and George saw with emotion the Bible which he himself had given to the wanderer lying also on the table, with the magnifying-glass which Waife had of late been obliged to employ in reading.
"Just cut out those figures carefully, my dear, and see if we can get him to tell us how much twice ten are I mean by addressing him as Sir Isaac." Sophy cut the figures from the multiplication table, and arranged them, at Waife's instruction, in a circle on the floor. "Now, Sir Isaac." Mop lifted a paw, and walked deliberately round the letters. "Now, Sir Isaac, how much are ten times two?"
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