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"A what?" thundered the voice of Colonel Wragge behind us, having returned suddenly and overheard. "It's a fire-elemental," repeated Dr. Silence more calmly, but with a note of triumph in his voice he could not keep out, "and a fire-elemental enraged." The light began to dawn in my mind at last.
Her pride in his scientific achievements, and her mortification at finding them but little known out of his own country, were genuine feelings. Never had Captain Wragge burned his adulterated incense on the flimsy altar of human vanity to better purpose than he was burning it now. "You are very good, sir," said Mrs. Lecount. "In honoring my husband's memory, you honor me.
Lecount's notice in the character of the most highly informed man she has met with since the professor's death. If it is to be done in the way I propose, make your mind easy Wragge, inflated by Joyce, is the man to do it. "You now have my whole budget of news. Am I, or am I not, worthy of your confidence in me?
Wragge," said the captain, unconsciously dropping his voice almost to a whisper as he spoke. "It doesn't matter," she answered quietly, out of the darkness. "I am strong enough to suffer, and live. Other girls in my place would have been happier they would have suffered, and died. It doesn't matter; it will be all the same a hundred years hence.
The increased warmth had a painful effect, not alone on Colonel Wragge, but upon all of us. It was oppressive and unnatural. We gasped figuratively as well as actually. "You are the first to feel it," said Dr. Silence in low tones, looking across at him. "You are in more intimate touch, of course " The Colonel was trembling, and appeared to be in considerable distress.
Wragge was upstairs, straightening herself from head to foot to meet the morning inspection of her husband's orderly eye; and while Magdalen and the captain were waiting for her in the parlor, the servant came in with a note from Sea-view Cottage. The messenger was waiting for an answer, and the note was addressed to Captain Wragge. The captain opened the note and read these lines: "DEAR SIR Mr.
Over the door are my name, portrait, and autograph, expanded to colossal proportions, and surrounded in flowing letters, by the motto of the establishment, 'Down with the Doctors! Even Mrs. Wragge contributes her quota to this prodigious enterprise. She is the celebrated woman whom I have cured of indescribable agonies from every complaint under the sun.
It was addressed to Miss Garth, on paper with the deepest mourning-border round it; and the writer was the same man who followed us on our way home from a walk one day last spring Captain Wragge.
If I close my eyes to-night which I don't think I shall I'll go to sleep as straight as my legs will let me. And I'll never have another holiday as long as I live. I hope I shall be forgiven," said Mrs. Wragge, mournfully shaking her head. "I humbly hope I shall be forgiven." "Forgiven!" repeated Magdalen. "If other women wanted as little forgiving as you do Well! well!
Wragge still lingered uneasily near the door. Her manner showed plainly that she had something more to say. "What is it?" asked Magdalen, sharply. "Don't be angry," said Mrs. Wragge. "I'm not settled in my mind about the captain. He's a great writer, and he hasn't written. He's as quick as lightning, and he hasn't come back. Here's Saturday, and no signs of him. Has he run away, do you think?
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