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Leigh's band are coming also. Of course, they will travel singly. If of no other use, they will be better able to ask questions than we. "I am going over now to Rehan's farm, to see my boy and to thank Marthe for saving him." "It was well managed, indeed," the priest said. "I went over yesterday to see the child, and the nurse told me how its escape had been contrived.
On the morning after the Henriette had sailed, the merchant took Leigh down to a little wayside inn, half a mile below the town, where he had placed his carriage and horses; and gave instructions to his coachman that he was to place himself under Leigh's orders. "At whatever hour of the day or night he comes, you will start at once with him, and the lady and child who accompany him.
These lapses did not go unnoticed, and he was often pressed for the cause of so sudden a change from mirth to sullen silence. "I will tell you what it is," said he; "a corpse is the cause." And then he told them all about it. James Leigh's change of life, manner, and habits dated from the dreaded night when he saw with his own eyes the ghastly figure of what he believed to be a murdered man.
A pretty little elm in Miss Leigh's tiny garden was clothed in gold instead of green, and shook its glittering foliage down with every breath of air like fairy coins minted from the sky. Innocent, leaning from her study window, watched the falling brightness with an unwilling sense of pain and foreboding.
Leigh's mind, had taken some little time to weed out; but when he heard and understood the truth, it never occurred to him to question for a moment the wisdom or propriety of her flight from her husband or of the means she had taken to remain safe from him.
Lilac looked up frightened and bewildered. Mrs Leigh's eyes were full of tears, and she could hardly speak. She took Lilac's hand in hers and held it tightly. "My poor child," she repeated. "Oh, please, ma'am," cried Lilac, "let's be quick and go to Mother. What ails her?" "Nothing ails her," said Mrs Leigh solemnly; "nothing will ever ail her any more.
Walking rapidly homeward, Edna wondered why she could not return Gordon Leigh's affection why his noble face never haunted her dreams instead of another's of which she dreaded to think. Looking rigorously into the past few weeks, she felt that long before she was aware of the fact, an image to which she refused homage must have stood between her heart and Gordon's.
Leigh's, and by their joint persuasion Byron was for a season induced to lay aside "that horrid, wearisome Don."
Leigh had started for home as soon as the National Guards of Saumur were defeated; Jean Martin, at Cathelineau's request, remaining with him in order to join some other gentlemen, who had that day arrived, in calling upon the three officers, and inviting them to join Cathelineau in the command. Leigh's sister ran out, as he rode up to the house.
The spirit was that of class against class, bitter, ugly, and revengeful. Leigh's personal interest was supplemented by the curiosity of a comparative stranger, who drinks in every detail of a situation typical of the country in which he has come to dwell.
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