”
Sir John smiled. Austin," continued the tapstress; "he's only
going on an errand. But, when the sound of the carriage-wheels died away, and he
felt that she was actually gone, his resolution failed him, and he rang the bell
violently. In olden days it boasted a chapel, dedicated to Saint
Thomas; beneath which there was a crypt curiously constructed amid the arches,
where "was sepultured Peter the Chaplain of Colechurch, who began the Stone
Bridge at London:" and it still boasted an edifice (though now in rather a
tumbledown condition) which had once vied with a palace,—we mean Nonesuch
House. "
"But I never can forget it, Winny. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. In the pause a door could be heard opening and closing
on the landing up-stairs. I will lay them all at your feet. She
was radiant. “John?”
He turned around in the recliner. ‘Her purpose, if you will
believe me, is to get herself a dowry so that she may marry an Englishman. I was his wife.
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