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"Shall I notify your refusal also?" asked Mr. Pendril, speaking to Magdalen next. She turned round from the window but kept her face in shadow, by standing close against it with her back to the light. "Tell him, on my part," she said, "to think again before he starts me in life with a hundred pounds. I will give him time to think."
You no doubt observed a remarkable change in Mr. Vanstone's manner on that day; and you can now account for it?" Miss Garth bowed her head, and Mr. Pendril went on. "You are sufficiently acquainted with Mr. Clare's contempt for all social prejudices," he continued, "to anticipate his reception of the confession which his neighbor addressed to him.
"I came to the conclusion yesterday," said the doctor, entering abruptly on his business, "that our patient was strong enough to justify us at last in running all risks, and communicating with her friends; and I have accordingly followed the clew which that queer fellow, Captain Wragge, put into our hands. You remember he advised us to apply to Mr. Pendril, the lawyer? I saw Mr.
"I am sincerely sorry, Miss Garth, to intrude on you at such a time as this. But circumstances, as I have already explained, leave me no other choice." "Will you take a seat, Mr. Pendril? You wished to see me in this room, I believe?" "Only in this room, because Mr. Vanstone's papers are kept here, and I may find it necessary to refer to some of them."
"Show me the place in the will. Let me read it, and know the worst." Mr. Pendril turned back to the first page, and pointed to a certain place in the cramped lines of writing. "Begin here," he said. She tried to begin; she tried to follow his finger, as she had followed it already to the signatures and the dates.
Norah, who held her sister's hand in her own, felt it tremble for a moment, and then turn cold and that was all. "Let me mention plainly what I have done," resumed Mr. Pendril; "I am very desirous you should not think that I have left any effort untried. When I wrote to Michael Vanstone, in the first instance, I did not confine myself to the usual formal statement.
He was obliged to dress himself in all sorts of queer clothes, and hide in all manner of strange, out-of-the-way places, and keep company with rude and humble men, the better to hide his real rank from the cruel enemies that sought his life. Once he was hid in a mill; and another time he was in the house of one Pendril, a woodman.
One of the pages of writing was folded down at the corner; and at that folded page the manuscript opened, when Magdalen first turned the leaves. "Is this the place which refers to my sister and myself?" she inquired. Mr. Pendril bowed; and Magdalen smoothed out the manuscript before her on the table. "Will you decide, Norah?" she asked, turning to her sister.
Pendril the medical decision which, thus far, refused him the interview that he sought, she added a brief statement of the legal question she had put to the doctors; and hinted delicately at her natural anxiety to be informed of the motives which had led the lawyer to make his request. The answer she received was guarded in the extreme: it did not impress her with a favorable opinion of Mr.
We have tried to restrain ourselves from hoping too confidently; and we are deeply grateful for your kindness, at a time when kindness is sorely needed by both of us." Magdalen's hand returned the pressure of her sister's withdrew itself trifled for a moment impatiently with the arrangement of her dress then suddenly moved the chair closer to the table. Pendril.
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