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"Lady Pryme, we make place for you." And she crossed to Cornelia. Cornelia kept her eyes fixed on Adela's mouth, as one looks at a place whence a venomous reptile has darted out. Her eyelids shut, and she stood a white sculpture of pain, pitiable to see. Emilia took her hand, encouraging the tightening fingers with a responsive pressure.
Before he could answer her, some one, beckoning to them from the further side of the pool, caused them both to turn suddenly round. It was not only Herbert Pryme who had seen them wander away down the garden from the house. Mrs. Romer, too, had been at another window and had noticed them.
And then there is a complete stagnation of the power of speech on both sides for the space of five minutes, during which the clock ticking steadily on at the far end of the corridor has things entirely its own way. "There is another couple who are happy," says Herbert Pryme, breaking the charmed silence at length, and indicating, by a sign, two people who are wandering slowly down the garden.
Nor did she pay the slightest attention to the fact until a turn in the road brought her suddenly face to face with two persons who stood deep in conversation under the shelter of the tall, misty hedge-row. As Vera approached these two persons sprang apart with a guilty suddenness, and revealed to her astonished eyes Beatrice Miller and Mr. Herbert Pryme.
"There are two voices!" cries Helen, in a disappointed tone; "he is not alone!" "I suppose it is Mr. Pryme mamma said he might come by this train," answers Beatrice, so quietly that no one could ever have guessed how her heart was beating. "Helen, do let us run upstairs; I really cannot stay.
Miller, sternly, "to understand the nature of it. It is from Mr. Pryme, I imagine?" "Yes, mamma." "And by what right, may I ask, does Mr. Pryme commence a letter to you in the warm terms of affection which I have had the pleasure of reading?" "By the right which I myself have given him," she answered, boldly.
For my part I can give no guess when I shall get away, for I purchast but 27 slaves since I have been here, for slaves is very scarce. We have had nineteen Sail of us at one time in ye Road, so that ships that used to carry pryme slaves off is now forced to take any that comes. Here is seven sail of us Rum men that are ready to devour one another, for our case is desprit."
Kynaston; usually she enjoyed an evening stroll with her husband after dinner, but when he asked her to come out with him on this occasion, she refused, shortly and ungraciously. "No, thank you; if you and Mr. Pryme are going to smoke, I could not possibly come; you know that I hate smoke."
Pryme was no longer by the window when it did so, so that he was totally unprepared for the visitor, whose trembling and twice-repeated tap at his door he answered somewhat impatiently "Come in, and be d d to you, and don't stand rapping at that door all day."
"I am sorry to tell you that, since I have come here, my friendly and pleasant intentions towards you have undergone a complete change." "Sir!" "Yes, Mr. Pryme; I came here prepared to treat you well, I may as well confess it as a son, under the belief that you were an upright and honourable man, and were sincerely and honestly attached to my daughter." "Mr.
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