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Brice, this was M. Maltor, vicar of Groslay, a man better adapted for the functions of a statesman and a minister, than for those of the vicar of a village, and to whom a diocese at least would have been given to govern if talents decided the disposal of places. He had been secretary to the Comte de Luc, and was formerly intimately acquainted with Jean Bapiste Rousseau.
The erstwhile butler turned back to the slowly recovering Hade. Brice laughed at their crass astonishment. "This is one of the best men in the Service," he explained. "It was he who took a job under Hade and who got hold of that raised check. Hade passed him on to you, to spy for him. He " "But," blithered Standish, "I saw him tackle Hade, before all the crew. He was playing with death.
"I guess I visited down Boston-way oftener than you, Eliza Reed. You never had any clothes." Mrs. Reed's strength was her imperturbability. "And you never set eyes on the Brice house, opposite the Common, with the swelled front?
'And how does Brice know anything bad? I asked, with a strange freezing sensation creeping from my heels to my head and down again I am sure deadly pale, but speaking very collectedly.
It had been granted with a queenly generosity. And after that none of the bevy had dared to broach the subject to Virginia. Jack Brinsmade had. He told Puss afterward that when Virginia got through with him, he felt as if he had taken a rapid trip through the wheel-house of a large steamer. Puss tried, by various ingenious devices, to learn whether Mr. Brice had accepted his invitation.
Virginia trembled with many emotions, but she answered nothing. The mere presence of this woman had a strange effect upon the girl, she was filled with a longing unutterable. It was not because Margaret Brice was the mother of him whose life had been so strangely blended with hers whom she saw in her dreams.
The force of the stroke knocked the key clatteringly to the floor. Stepping back. Brice flung a second and better aimed handful of the dwindling fire in front of the re-coiling reptile. It drew back hissing. And as it did so. Gavin regained the fallen key. Wheeling about choking and strangling from the smoke, his streamingly smarting eyes barely able to discern the fiery trail he had laid.
No wonder Virginia faltered and was silent. She looked at Abraham Lincoln standing there, bent and sorrowful, and it was as if a light had fallen upon him. But strangest of all in that strange moment was that she felt his strength. It was the same strength she had felt in Stephen Brice. This was the thought that came to her.
It cannot be said that he was intimate with that rather formidable personage, although the Judge, being a man of habits, had formed that of taking tea at least once a week with Mrs. Brice. Stephen had learned to love the Judge, and he had never ceased to be grateful to him for a knowledge of that man who had had the most influence upon his life, Abraham Lincoln.
And Brice tried hunting, as Joel advised, taking the gun from its crotch over the door after breakfast, and wandering for hours in the yellow, wine-like air of the mesa. He came in at noon and nightfall always empty-handed, yet no one derided his failure. There was something about the man that smothered derision. "A sort o' thunderin' patience that knocks a fellow," Bert Fox put it. Mrs.
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