l have its way. I hated myself as I considered my own weakness. I could find no excuse either for my pusillanimity or for that procrastination of my duty into which it had betrayed me. I found I could not face my own scorn; and,Canada Goose Carson Parka, rising from my study~chair,Edinson Cavani Drakt, I took my hat and went out. I had determined to make amends for my fault by going at once to Orchard Street.
And I did; but alas! for the result! The half-hour I had lost was fatal. To be sure I met with no adventure on my way,Lang, but I found Mr. Nicholls out. He had been summoned by a telegram to Boston, and had been absent from the house only fifteen minutes. I meditated following him to the station, but the whistle sounded just as I turned away from his door, and I knew I should be too late. Humiliated still further in my own estimation, I went home to wait with what patience I could for the two or three days which must elapse before his return.
Before I went to bed that night I opened the book which Mr. Pollard had given me, in the expectation of finding a letter in it, or,Fotball Snapback Hatter, at least, some writing on the title-page or the blank pages of the book. But I was disappointed in both regards. With the exception of some minute pencil-marks scattered here and there along the text — indications, doubtless,BVB Borussia Dortmund Drakt, of favorite passages — I perceived nothing in the volume to account for the extreme earnestness with which he had presented it.
Chapter 20
The Old Mill.
Whither wilt thou lead me? speak; I’ll go no farther,CG Menn Hybridge Hoody Jakke.
HAMLET.
I did not sleep well that night, but this did not prevent me from beginning work early in the morning. The sermon I had been interrupted in the afternoon before, had to be completed that day; and I was hard at work upon it when there came a knock at my study~door. I arose with any thing but alacrity and opened it. Dwight Pollard stood before me.
It was a surprise that called up a flush to my cheeks; but daylight was shining upon this interview, and I knew none of those sensations which had unnerved me the night before. I was simply on my guard, and saw him seat himself in my own chair, without any other feeling than that of curiosity as to the nature of his errand. He likewise was extremely self-possessed,De Bruyne Drakt, and looked at me calmly for some instants before speaking.
“Last night,” he began,Østerrike Landslagsdrakt, “you refused a request which my mother made of you.”
I bowed,Menn Moncler Bulgarie.
“It was a mistake,” he continued. “The paper which my father gave you cannot be one which he in his right senses would wish seen by the public. You should have trusted my mother, who knew my father much better than you did.”
“It was not a matter of trust,Muži Barbour Rosamund Kůže Bunda,” I protest. “A document had been given me by I a dying man,UGG Ansley Czyścibut 5775, with an injunction to put it into certain hands. I had no choice but to fulfil his wishes in this regard. Your mother herself would have despised me if I had yielded to her importunities and left it behind me.”
“My mother,” he commenced.
“Your mother is your mother,Jeju United Drakt,” I put in. “Let us have respect for her widowhood, and leave her o
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