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I fear he would find a great deal here not to his taste. My authority has been so much weakened of late; I have some discontented brethren not more than one or two, Mr. Torridon and they have learned that they will be able to appeal now to the King's Grace, and get themselves set free; and they have ruined the discipline of the house.
Margaret again looked quickly up; but there was still no sign of wincing on those scarlet lips, or beneath the black eyebrows. "Why, of course, I knew it," said Beatrice, looking straight at her with large, innocent eyes, "that was why " She stopped; and Lady Torridon really roused now, made a false step. "Yes?" she said. "You did not end your sentence?"
Other roads were opened north and south; through Morvern to Loch Moidart; through Glen Morrison and Glen Sheil, and through the entire Isle of Skye; from Dingwall, eastward, to Lochcarron and Loch Torridon, quite through the county of Ross; and from Dingwall, northward, through the county of Sutherland as far as Tongue on the Pentland Frith; while another line, striking off at the head of the Dornoch Frith, proceeded along the coast in a north-easterly direction to Wick and Thurso, in the immediate neighbourhood of John o' Groats.
He told the story well, and Lady Torridon seemed to move among them, her skirts dragging majestically on the grass, and her steady, sombre face looking down on them all beneath half-closed languid eye-lids. "He has never been near us again," said Ralph, "but he never fails to ask after my mother's distressing illness when I meet him in town."
Her upper lip was covered with a slight growth of dark hair. She seemed strangely harmless; and Ralph had another prick of compunction as he thought of the news he had to give her on the morrow. He wondered how much she knew. "We are so glad it is you, Mr. Torridon, that have come to visit us. We feared it might be Dr. Layton; we have heard sad stories of him." Ralph hardened his heart.
Beyond the latter rose the roofs of an outhouse. As Ralph came in, the door from the nunnery opened again, and a lay sister came out hastily; she moved straight across and took the horse by the bridle. "Give him a good meal, sister," said the Abbess; and went past Ralph to the door of the guest-house. "Come in, Mr. Torridon; there will be lights immediately."
I daresay you have come to give it me again, however." "If I thought you would take it," began Ralph. "But I will not," said More smiling, "no more than before. Sit down, Mr. Torridon." Ralph had come at Cromwell's suggestion, and with a very great willingness of his own, too.
She seemed to want no answer; but went on expatiating on the horrors that were happening round them, the wicked accusations brought against the Religious, and the Divine vengeance that would surely fall on those who were responsible. Finally she turned and questioned him, with a mingling of deference and dignity. "What do you wish from us. Mr. Torridon?
Carleton was still on the gravel, and Lady Torridon was walking very deliberately back to the house. The distance to Lewes was about fourteen miles, and it was not until they had travelled some two of them, and had struck off towards Burgess Hill that Chris turned his head for Mr. Morris to come up.
There was a roar of amusement from the mob; and a shout or two was raised for the King's Grace. "You must be patient," cried Dr. Layton, "and then no more taxes. You can trust us, gentlemen, to do the King's work as it should be done." As he passed in through the lamp-lit entrance he turned to Ralph again. "You see, Mr. Torridon, we have the country behind us."
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