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He paused but for a moment, then hastily seizing upon Zillah's arm, he urged her to follow him quickly to the water's edge.
"Miss Warren can tell you," I said, laughing, "that when people have been struck by lightning they often don't think straight for a long time to come." "Crooked thinking sometimes happens without so vivid a cause," Miss Warren responded, without looking around. "Zillah's right in thinking that thee can never be a stranger in this home," said Mrs. Yocomb warmly. "Mrs.
And presently, not even troubling to look out of his window to see if there was a watcher there, he went to bed, to dream of Zillah's dark eyes. But when morning came, and Lauriston realized that a fateful day was before him, his thoughts were not quite so rosy. He drew up his blind there, certainly was a man pacing the opposite sidewalk.
On the little table at the foot of the bed, there lay a letter addressed to me. The writing was in Zillah's hand. But Lucilla had written her name in the corner in the usual way, to show that she had dictated the letter to her nurse. A load was lifted off my heart as I took it up. She too had shrunk from the embarrassment of a personal explanation.
Harrington hesitated a moment, with her hand on the latch, but went back into Zillah's room murmuring, "'Poor thing, poor thing, she is sorry already. "'Mistress, don't tell him, don't tell the master. I I did not mean to say such things. It was the black blood burning in my heart. Don't tell him, or he will send me back. "Mrs. Harrington smiled.
Sir Robert wandered about the house like a troubled spirit, anxious, yet dreading, to see his child; while Sir Willmott, after using every precaution within his power against Zillah's appearance, endeavoured to find occupation by inspecting the carriages that were to convey them to his aunt's house in Surrey, where he had previously determined that they should pass many of the succeeding days an object not only of convenience, but of necessity, inasmuch as he could thus gain time to arrange with his servants and tenantry at his own dwelling.
Then he bid us go upstairs, through the kitchen, to Zillah's chamber; and I whispered my companion to obey: perhaps we might contrive to get through the window there, or into a garret, and out by its skylight. The window, however, was narrow, like those below, and the garret trap was safe from our attempts; for we were fastened in as before.
She was using Zillah's eyes to make sure that I had really written all that she had dictated to me exactly as, on many an after occasion, she used my eyes to make sure of Zillah's complete performance of tasks allotted to her in the house. No experience of the faithful devotion of those who live with them ever thoroughly satisfies the blind. Ah, poor things, always in the dark! always in the dark!
I had been holding one of Zillah's hands during the interview, and she now pulled me down and whispered: "What's the matter with thee, Richard Morton?" "Heaven grant you may never know, little one. Good-by." I had scarcely left the piazza, however, before Mrs. Yocomb called: "Richard Morton, thee must be famished. Come to supper." I ought to have had a ravenous appetite but I had none at all.
With these words, James Harrington crossed the street, and entered Zillah's house. Ralph watched him till the door closed, and then walked slowly back to the hotel.
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