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Sir Lemuel Levison's house-steward, also summoned by telegraph, was there to identify the stolen jewels which were produced in court. The examination was brief and conclusive. McNeil and Ferguson swore to the woman as being Rose Cameron, and also as being the very woman they had each seen on the night of the murder, under the suspicious circumstances already mentioned.
As to the room, the wonder was how it ever got emptied again, so densely was it packed. Sir Francis Levison's friends were there in a body. They did not believe a word of the accusation. "A scandalous affair," cried they, "got up, probably, by some sneak of the scarlet-and-purple party." Lord Mount Severn, who chose to be present, had a place assigned him on the bench.
But it never occurred to me that any man even an Englishman would plant ten acres of wine-grapes when there wasn't a winery within fifty miles of him." Parker Lowe borrowed one of Mose Doolittle's mules Monday evening, and rode from Temecula to Jake Levison's saloon at Maravilla.
How could it be otherwise, kept up, as it was, by Barbara's frequent meetings with Mr. Carlyle, and by Captain Levison's exaggerated whispers of them. Discontented, ill at ease with herself and with everybody about her, Isabel was living now in a state of excitement, a dangerous resentment against her husband beginning to rise up in her heart.
"And that Levison's guilty?" returned the justice, opening his eyes in puzzled wonderment. "I have no opinion upon that point," was the cold rejoinder. "It's impossible, I say. Dick can't be innocent. You may as well tell me that the world's turned upside down." "It is, sometimes, I think. That Richard was not the guilty man will be proved yet, justice, in the broad face of day."
That well-bred attendant knows how to interpret the most obscure diagnosis of all mental diseases that can afflict her mistress; she knows when the ivory complexion is bought and paid for when the pearly teeth are foreign substances fashioned by the dentist when the glossy plaits are the relics of the dead, rather than the property of the living; and she knows other and more sacred secrets than these; she knows when the sweet smile is more false than Madame Levison's enamel, and far less enduring when the words that issue from between gates of borrowed pearl are more disguised and painted than the lips which help to shape them when the lovely fairy of the ball-room re-enters the dressing-room after the night's long revelry, and throws aside her voluminous burnous and her faded bouquet, and drops her mask, and like another Cinderella loses the glass-slipper, by whose glitter she has been distinguished, and falls back into her rags and dirt, the lady's maid is by to see the transformation.
Then turning to the bold blonde on the stand, he proceeded: "Witness, tell the jury what occurred that night under the balcony of Miss Levison's apartments at Castle Lone." Rose Cameron threw another vindictive glance at the Duke of Hereward, and commenced her narrative.
Since her departure from Castle Lone and her arrival at their town house, the change of scene and of circumstances, and the preliminaries of her wedding and her journey, had the happiest effects upon Miss Levison's health and spirits. She recovered her cheerfulness, and even acquired a bloom she had never possessed before.
"That is Sir Francis." "No!" uttered Bethel, a whole world of astounded meaning in his tone. "By Jove! He Sir Francis Levison?" At that moment their eyes met, Francis Levison's and Otway Bethel's. Otway Bethel raised his shaggy hat in salutation, and Sir Francis appeared completely scared. Only for an instant did he lose his presence of mind.
You see the notorious fact of Sir Francis Levison's having come forward to oppose Mr. Carlyle, caused greater interest in this election than is usual, even in small country places and that need not be. Barbara drove in her carriage, the two children with her, and the governess. The governess said she preferred to remain at home.
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