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Russian and Tartar well; Turkish tolerably; with a smattering of two or three Circassian dialects." "Humph! A fair list. Any Persian?" "Only a few words." "Humph! If you can learn one language I presume you can learn another. Now, Mr. Thurnall, I have no doubt that you will do your duty in the Turkish contingent." Tom bowed. "But I must ask you if your resolution to join it is fixed?"
Stangrave, who was very uncertain as to how Tom would receive him, had been about to make his amende honorable in a fashion graceful, magnificent, and, as he expressed it afterwards laughingly to Thurnall himself, "altogether highfalutin:" but what chivalrous and courtly words had arranged themselves upon the tip of his tongue, were so utterly upset by Tom's matter-of-fact bonhomie, and by the cool way in which he took for granted the fact of his marriage, that he burst out laughing, and caught both Tom's hands in his.
And Grace closed the door upon all but the doctor, who treated the wild sufferer's wild words as the mere fancies of delirium; and then Grace watched and prayed, till she found herself alone with the dead. She wrote a letter to Thurnall "Sir I have found your belt, and all the money, I believe and trust, which it contained.
He had, often perhaps, himself hurled forth such words in the excitement of preaching; but never before had he heard them pronounced in spirit and in truth. And as he stood, Thurnall, who had his doctor's eye on him, saw him turn paler and more pale. Suddenly he clenched his teeth, and stooped slightly forwards for a moment, drawing his breath. Thurnall walked quickly and steadily up to him.
"Weep no more, gentle shepherds, weep no more; For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be upon a garret floor, With fumes of Morpheus' crown about his head." "Fumes of Morpheus' crown?" asked Thurnall. "That crimson flower which crowns the sleepy god, And sweeps the soul aloft, though flesh may nod." "He has taken to opium!" said Thurnall to the bewildered Major.
"Frightened; beat; run to earth myself, though I talked so bravely of running others to earth just now. Grace, I've been in prison!" "In prison? In a Russian prison? Oh, Mr. Thurnall!" "Ay, Grace, I'd tried everything but that; and I could not stand it. Death was a joke to that. Not to be able to get out!
He had been twitting Thurnall with the miserable condition of the labourers in the south of England, and extolling his own country at the expense of ours. Tom, unable to deny the fact, had waxed all the more wroth at having it pressed on him; and at last had burst forth "Well, and what right have you to crow over us on that score?
His hand, too, shook as if he had the palsy, and he chattered and fidgetted like a man with St. Vitus's dance." "Did he, my lord?" quoth Tom Thurnall, when he heard the same, in a very meaning tone.
Years before, Elsley had tried opium, and found, unhappily for him, that it fed his fancy without inflicting those tortures of indigestion which keep many, happily for them, from its magic snare. He had tried it more than once of late: but Lucia had had a hint of the fact from Thurnall; and in just terror had exacted from him a solemn promise never to touch opium again.
Presently Tom hurries up, having been originally one of the deputation, but kept by the necessity of binding up the three fingers which the ramrod had spared to poor Jem Burman's hand. Thurnall." "Dr. Heale was to have been hero, by the by. Where is Dr. Heale?" says some one. "Very sorry, my lord; I can answer for him professional calls, I don't doubt nobody more devoted to your lordship."
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