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Pierston could not be satisfied that Avice was in the house, and he crossed over to the front of her little freehold and tapped at the door, which stood ajar. Nobody came: hearing a slight movement within he crossed the threshold. Avice was there alone, sitting on a low stool in a dark corner, as though she wished to be unobserved by any casual passer-by.
Take to our Lord, then, thy sins to be cleansed away; but let thine own thoughts dwell not so much on thy sins, thy deeds done and words said, but rather on thy sinfulness, the inward fount of sin in thy nature." "That were ugly work!" said Avice. "Ay. I reckon thou countest not the scouring of thy floor among thine enjoyments.
'Your mother was a refined and well-informed woman, I think I remember? 'She was, sir; everybody said so. 'I hope you resemble her. She archly shook her head, and drew warily away. 'O! one thing more, Avice. I have not brought much linen, so you must come to the house every day. 'Very good, sir. 'You won't forget that? 'O no. Then he let her go.
He hardly knew for a moment what he did; a dim thought that Avice the renewed Avice might come into the house made his reseating himself an act of spontaneity. He forgot that twenty years earlier he had called the now Mrs. Pierston an elf, a witch; and that lapse of time had probably not diminished the subtleties implied by those epithets.
Pawle pausing a few yards away from the porch of the hotel, and speaking in a confidential voice, "it's this: In turning up the records of the Cave-Gray family, as far as they are shown in their parish registers, I found that Stephen John Cave-Gray, sixth Earl of Ellingham, married one Georgina Wickham. Now, is that another coincidence? There you get the two names in combination Avice Wickham.
The first blushed and owned that it was very welcome, as her wardrobe had never recovered a great thunderstorm at Oxford. Jane's awkwardness made her seem as if it were an offence on my part, but her mother tells me it made her very happy. Her father says that she tells him he was hard on Avice, a great favourite of his, and that I must ask Jane to explain, for it is beyond him.
"Who can tell what the Queen would dare if she gets her will!" demanded the Earl. "Wouldst like to do penance with sheet and candle, like Gloucester's wife?" Such a possibility was enough to silence the Lady of Warwick on the score of witches, and the only time she spoke to Grisell was to ask her about Sister Avice and her cures.
"If you think it is I'll tell you something that isn't: Avice practically refused him." Her husband pushed away his plate; the omission of even one regretful glance at its treasures betrayed the strong emotion under which he laboured. "This is serious," he said, quietly. "Let us get at it. Tell me if you please!" "She came to me and cried half the night.
If you happen to be in their course, under you go cut clane in two pieces, and they never lying-to to haul in your carcases, and nobody to tell the tale. Pierston turned to Avice, wanting to say much to her, yet not knowing what to say. He lamely remarked at last: 'You go back the same way, Avice? 'Yes, sir. 'Well, take care of yourself afloat. 'O yes.
She was somewhat small, slight, and graceful; her attire alone would have been enough to attract him, being simple and countrified to picturesqueness; but he was more than attracted by her strong resemblance to Avice Caro the younger Ann Avice, as she had said she was called.
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