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"It is done, and well done," I said to myself; "and I have only to wait a day to be reconciled to it when I give my husband my first kiss." I had planned and hoped to reach London in time to start for Paris by the night-mail.
It was a raw December afternoon within a week of the end of term and Taffy had returned from skating in Christ Church meadow, when he found a telegram lying on his table. There was just time to see the Dean, to pack, and to snatch a meal in hall, before rattling off to his train. At Didcot he had the best part of an hour to wait for the night-mail westward. "Your father dangerously ill.
From Troyes to Belfort is a journey best made by night-mail express, as there is little to see on the way; nor need Belfort famous for its heroic defence under Danfert, and its rescue from Prussian grasp by the no less heroic pleadings of Thiers detain the traveller. It is pleasant to find here, as at Troyes, a Rue Thiers, and to see Thiers' portrait in every window.
"No," replied Lord Arleigh "to the railway station. I want to catch the night-mail for London." Lord Arleigh was just in time for the train. The footman caught a glimpse of his master's face as the train went off it was white and rigid. "Of all the weddings in this world, well, this is the queerest!" he exclaimed to himself.
He paid his bill, took his bag in his hand, and went out to idle about the streets and over the river till the time should have arrived at which the night-mail left the Waterloo Station, by which train he intended to return homeward.
They soon reached the quiet old inn, which had been selected for them by the forethought of the man who loved her well. Here they installed themselves for the night, arranging to go to Budmouth by the first train the next day. At this hour Edward Springrove was fast approaching his native county on the wheels of the night-mail. Manston had evidently resolved to do nothing in a hurry.
Had he missed doing this, it was his intention to go out to his friend's house; and in that case he could not have gone down to Taunton till the next morning; but now he would be able to say what he wished to say, and hear what he wished to hear, and would travel down by the night-mail train. He was anxious that Clara should feel that he had hurried to her without a moment's delay.
You sail on Friday, I think? And to-day is Monday. You can make the journey there and back quite easily in the time." "I can?" asked Thresk. "Yes. Travel by the night-mail up to Ajmere tomorrow night. You will be in Chitipur on Wednesday afternoon. That gives you twenty-four hours there, and you can still catch the steamer here on Friday." "You advise that?" "Yes, I do," said Mrs. Repton. Mrs.
That evening a gentleman with a red nose asked at the Barchester station for a second-class ticket for London by the up night-mail train. He was well-known at the station, and the station-master made some little inquiry. "All the way to London to-night, Mr Stringer?" he said. "Yes, all the way," said the red-nosed man, sulkily.
How bitter they had been, and how sore the wife's heart still felt, I could see from the jealous way in which, smiling and cheerful as her demeanour was, she caught every look, every word of those around her which might chance to bear reference to her husband; in her quick avoidance of every topic connected with these disastrous times, and, above all, in her hurried grasp of a newspaper that some careless servant brought in fresh from the night-mail, wet with sleet and snow.
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