“The
visit seems to have made a most painful impression upon him. "
"Zounds!" exclaimed Quilt, "did you kill him?"
"Not quite," replied Terence, laughing; "but I brought him to his senses. ”
“That is exactly what I feel. ’
Gerald controlled a quivering lip. For all the
enervating heat, he applied himself vigorously to his tasks. At other times, it would seem that the
sea itself had gone away. ”
“Lucy Albert, sir. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. And there," he added, placing in his hands a heavy bag of money, and a pocketbook, "is a sum little short of fifteen thousand pounds. ”
She chilled Ann Veronica a little by that last phrase, and yet the magnetism of
her fellowship and enthusiasm was very strong; and it was pleasant to be made
out a heroine after so much expostulation and so many secret doubts. "If I could
work as fast as you, I might afford to be as idle. Sheppard," rejoined Winifred, controlling
her emotion, and speaking as cheerfully as she could; "I would do anything in
the world for you, and so would my father, and so would Thames; but he ought,
for he's your nephew, you know.
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