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As he went on, he fancied there were sounds in his sitting-room, and went up to the door and listened nervously before entering in. "Oh, Miss Collum, my poor dear!" a tremulous voice, which he recognised as his aunt's, was saying, "for Mercy's sake, don't lie there like that! She's dying! and it's my fault for letting her come here! and what am I to say to her ma?"
"Ah," said the politic Leander, "but some people are saved having resort to Art for improvement, and we oughtn't to blame them as are less favoured for trying to render themselves more agreeable as spectacles, ought we?" "And if every one thought with you," added his aunt, with distinctly inferior tact, "where would your poor dear 'usband have been, Mrs. Collum, ma'am?"
You may call it a fine thing to take a blank canvas, and represent the luxurious tresses and the blooming hue of 'ealth upon it, and so do I; but I call it a still higher and nobler act to produce a similar effect upon a human 'ed!" "Isn't that a pretty speech for a young man like him only twenty-seven Mrs. Collum?" exclaimed his admiring aunt.
"You see," she concluded, "that it was all on your account that he tried it on at all, and I'm sure he talked enough about you all the evening. I really was a little surprised when I found you were his Miss Collum. I do think he deserves it, poor little man!" "Yes, yes!" cried Matilda; "I'll go I'll go at once! Thank you, Miss Parkinson, for telling me what you have!"
"What! not satisfied even now?" cried Ada. "Well, Miss Collum, talk about jealousy! But, there, I'll tell you all I know myself." And she gave the whole account of the episode with the statue, so far as she knew it, even to the conversation which led to the production of the ring.
'Oh soft and warm woman, he cried, 'payment shall be yours'; and whilst he fumbled furiously in his clothes-press, he quoted from Tully: 'Haec civitas mulieri redimiculum praebuit. He pulled out one small bag: 'Haec in collum. She took another. 'Haec in crines! and he added a third, saying: 'Here is all I have, and cast the three into her lap.
Nam et in hac ipsa beati Thomae Ecclesia statuerunt multa mirae magnitudinis simulachra, ex quibus vnum quod maius est multo alijs apparet sedens homo in alto solio adoperto aureis sericis, et lapidibus praeciosis, habensque ad collum suspensa pro ornatu multa cinctoria praeciose gemmis, et auro contexta.
Collum with something like reverence, as an acquaintance of her youth who had always occupied a superior social position, and she was proud, though somewhat guiltily so, that her favourite nephew should have succeeded in captivating the daughter of a dentist. She kissed Leander on both cheeks. "He's done the best of all my nephews, Mrs.
"Why, it's a ring, Mrs. Collum, ma'am, that belonged to my own dear aunt, though she never wore it; and her grandfather had the posy engraved on the inside of it. And I remember her telling me, before she was taken, that she'd left it to me in her will, but I wasn't to let it go out of the family.
"I I hadn't time this morning," said the unregenerate Leander; "but I do occasionally cast an eye over it before I get up." Mrs. Collum groaned, and looked at her daughter reproachfully. "I see by the Weekly News," said Jauncy, "you've had a burglary in your neighbourhood." Leander let the carving-knife slip. "A burglary! What! in my neighbourhood? When?"
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