But Jack
speedily burst it open with the iron bar. Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand,
threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect
intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. Day after day for a measured hour in the lecture-theatre, with elaborate power
and patience, Russell pieced together difficulty and suggestion, instance and
counter-instance, in the elaborate construction of the family tree of life. “You are very kind to think of it,” she said, “but—don’t you think perhaps—that
I had better not?”
He smiled indulgently. He
leaned towards her, laid his hand tenderly upon hers. They heard his
footsteps descending the stone staircase, growing fainter and fainter. He was full of fabulous stories, not just
tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from
the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes
and yarns that only he remembered. Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards,
and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who,
at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle
in the other. The Victorians over-did it a little, I admit. To-night there seemed to be a new brilliancy in her eyes, a deeper quality
in her tone. . “Compromise—and kindness. So is the roof of the state-room at Hampton Court
Palace, occupied by Queen Anne, and the Prince of Denmark. “This is my way back to my
side of the Park,” she said.
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