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It seemed hardly credible. What was real, what remained, was merely the thought of some hours of solitude, beside the Norman sea, or among the great beech-woods that swept down the hills about Bad Wildheim. Those hours they only had stung, had penetrated, had found the shrinking core of the soul. What in truth was it that had happened to him?
"And meanwhile Ancoats is at Bad Wildheim?" "Ancoats is at Bad Wildheim, and behaving himself, as I hear from his poor mother." Fontenoy sighed. "But the boy was frightened, of course, when they went abroad. Now she is getting better, and one can't tell " "No, one can't tell," said George. "I wish I knew what the thing really meant," said Fontenoy, presently, in a tone of perplexed reverie.
One evening in the last week of the month Naseby and Lady Madeleine were sitting together in a corner of a vast drawing-room in Carlton House Terrace. The drawing-room was Mrs. Allison's. She had returned about a fortnight before from Bad Wildheim, and was now making an effort, for the boy's sake, to see some society.
Once, as Marcella passed her, after introducing someone to her, Letty felt a hand gently laid on her shoulder and then withdrawn. Strange waves of emotion ran through the girl's senses. When would George be here? About seven, she thought, when they would all have gone up to dress. He would have arrived from Wildheim in the morning, and was to spend the day doing business in town.
He rushed up to Market Malford to deliver his promised speech to his constituents, and immediately afterwards, on the urgent advice of the doctors, he went off to Wildheim with his mother and the elderly cousin whose aid he had already invoked.
"I am afraid I can't tell you any secrets," said George, smiling, "for I don't know any. But it looks as though Mrs. Allison and Maxwell between them had somehow found a way out." "How's the mother?" "You see, she has gone abroad, too to Bad Wildheim. In fact, Lord Ancoats has taken her." "That's the place for heart, isn't it?" said his mother, abruptly. "There's a man there that cures everybody."
Allison, and, in general, has laid us all under very great obligations. Meanwhile, she was very much tired out with nursing her mother-in-law " "Oh, and such a mother-in-law such a jewel!" ejaculated Betty. "And I brought her down here to rest, till he should come back from Wildheim and take her home. He will probably be here to-night."
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