All the Year Round, Vol. 43 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from All the Year Round, Vol. 43 Lance, thinking afterwards over his walk back to the Castle in company with Miss Shore, was driven to admit that never before in his life had he spent so silent a quarter of an hour, in solitary company with a handsome young woman. Lance had something of a reputation for his conversational powers, but now they appeared suddenly and unaccount ably to have failed him. Except in the briefest thanks for assistance over stiles or rough pathway, or monosyllabic acquiescence in his remarks about the beauty of the night, ho did not hear Miss Shore´s voice. Once or twice, as they walked along the dim lanes, in and out among the tree shadows, he found himself looking at her wonderingly, trying to define, not alone her personality, but what special quality it was in that personality which seemed to attract and repulse him at one and the same moment. In that bewitching, bewildering half gloom of the summer´s night, she looked, in her long, clinging grey garments, scarcely less shadowy than the shadows among which they walked. In the smooth paths of the Castle gardens her steps became slow and gliding, and he fell a little behind her in his walk, asking himself if it were a real living woman he was following, or merely a bloodless shadow which would by-and-by disappear into the mist and vapour out of which it had emerged. Inside the hall-door, they parted with a brief "Good night." "Who was she? what was she? whence had she come? whither was she going?" Lance wondered, gazing dreamily after the tall, slight figure as it glided noiselessly up the broad oak staircase. Lady Judith´s falsetto, in gradual approach from the farther end of the hall, brought him back to commonplace earth once more. Lady Judith´s voice sounded near and nearer. This habit of speaking as she came along was a peculiarity of Lady Judith´s. She was invariably heard before she was seen. She had her night-lamp in her hand, and, as usual, a fine How of words in her mouth. Madge had gone to bed with a bad headache, and she herself - well, had been a little startled: as she was sitting atone in the drawing room something had happened which had set her shivering. Lance´s face said, "Fancy! Aunt Judy shivering!" "If it had happened to any one else," the lady went on serenely, "I should have said that it was a dream; but you know, Lance, I never by any chance indulge in an after-dinner nap." "No one would ever dare accuse you of such a thing," said Lance, with a double meaning. "Quite so. I admit that sometimes - sometimes, though rarely - I close my eyes to rest my head; for, what with my farm and Sir Peter, and one thing and another, my brains do get tired at times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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