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percival caught something about mr patons papers having been burnt. anxious t
o fend him, to ask what had happened, mr percival, leaving the room, caught s
ight of him pacing with hasty and uneven steps along a private garden walk wh
ich belonged to the masters. i hope nothing unpleasant has care you believed
in him still absolutely utterly i must be easily duped, evelyn, for with all my
heart i believed that that man loved me as deeply as i loved him. every word
every look oh, he was a finished actor it all seemed so real so real charmion
, after you had read that letter and understood all that it meant, what did y
ou do i went to my room, packed a bag with a few changes of clothing, collected
all the money i had with. me, quite a large sum in notes, and caught the afte
rnoon train fro new york. i had no ides where i was going. my one longing was
to escape before he come back, but things were decided for me, the shock mad
e me faint, and in the heat of the train i felt worse every hour. when we sto
pped at a half way station i stepped out on to the platform in the same dull, da
zed way, hardly realizing what i was doing, and carried my bag out into the s
treet. half a mile away i saw a notice of rooms to let in the window of a sma
ll house, and i knocked and went in. i staged in that house for over six mont
hs, evelyn. the woman was a saint the kindliest, gentlest creature i have ever m
et. i told her that i was ill and in trouble, and wanted to rest, and she put
me to bed and nursed me hke child. i was a long time in getting well. the ve
ry strings of my being seemed to have snapped. i lay torpid week after week,
and the good soul took care of me and asked no questions. she was one of those r
ose disillusion, evelyn. i have always been convinced that marjorie was the s
ender. probably the letter had been written to her brother, or to some near r
elation, and in some way had come into her possession. she behaved very stran
gely about our engagement. but i had been her friend how she could find it in her heart if there had been any possibility of doubt i would have gone straight
to her, and demanded the truth, but what was the use the letter was there. i
should only have brought more suffering upon that the hard results of fiftee
n years continuous labour are now condensed into a heap of smut and ashes in
the schoolroom fire. you dont mean to say that your hebrew manuscripts are burnt
asked mr presence both the english and french who lay there. all was busy in
and about the city. the garrison was being shipped off to franco, according
to the terms of the capitulation; and a number of residents whose homes had b
een destroyed, and who had no mind to return in the place now that the englishwere the masters, were eager likewise to be gone, the french ships in the uppe
r reaches of the river were permitted to come down, take uo their crews again
, and transport the fugitives to france. but the abbe and his sister remained
on, uncertain of their future, madame drucsur waited for news of her husband,and the abbe lingered to know if he could serve his countrymen any longer. the
y had friends in france, but were not much disposed to return to that lad, co
lin and corinne were burning with. desire to see england at least, even if th
ey did not remain there; and madame drucour was disposed to wish. the same th
ing for herself one day humphrey brought them news. he had had news of the ex go
vernor of lauisbourg. he had fallen into the hands of the indians, but had be
en rescued by the english, and had been set, with a number of other prisoners
, to england in one of their returning ships. the news had been brought by a
sloop from new yorl, vessels were beginning to arrive in the harbor now from the
 enthusiastic english provinces, those in quebec heard how joy bells were rin
ging and bonfires blazing throughout new england and the provinces. far seein
g men saw in the fall of quebec an augury of a new and splendid empire in the
west, over which england should rule, so far, at least, there was no thought
of anything else, although the spirit of independence had taken deep root which
another day would bring forth a different sort of fruit, madame, your husban
d is safe, said humphrey when brought to her to tell his tale; i have heard i
t from one who saw him. he has not suffered any severe hurt at the hands of t
he indians. they were of those who were wavering betwixt loyalty to france and l
oyalty to england, and who made captives of white men wherever they could, ho
ping to get a ransom for them. he was rescued by the english and brought to n
ew york, put safely on board a home sailing vessel, and doubtless he is safe
on shore there by this time. he will be well treated; have no fears as to that.
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