Beautiful Rienzi; or, The Secret Vendetta — page 197: what you’re looking at

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190 BEAUTIFUL RIENZI. meekness; ‘‘and, Sophie, I leave you to attend to Dr. Pem- berton’s directions, and to charge Nelson to do so too when- ever he comes home. Dr. Pemberton has our interests at his very heart.” While the girl unlaced my slight boots, which were soaked through with the rain-water, into which I had heedlessly walked, and through which my long garments had trailed, she told me what had happened when we left the house in the morning with Mr. Lindhurst. “You hadn’t been gone an hour,” said Sophie; ‘‘and I think the rain was driving hardest when avery gentle knock comes to the front door. Miss Isolina was sitting in the window there looking out at the storm on the sea, and I was sitting alongside of her sewing, and keeping as good care of her as I could, as your poor, dear ma said, when of a sud- den Mrs. Haller comes up the stairs and says that Mrs. Ringwood was in the drawing-room, called to see your ma, and since she wasn’t at home, she’d like to see the young lady. At that I spoke up, and said I knew that your ma, or you either, wouldn’t like for Miss Isolina to trouble her- self with strangers in their absence, and Mrs. Ringwood would just have to wait, for | had given my bounden word that out of this room she should not go; and Miss Isolina says in her sweet way, which was always thinking for other people: ‘Tell Mrs. Ringwood just how it is with me; but assure her that I would like very much to see her; and if she will wait a few minutes mamma will certainly be home; she only went to the station.” ‘* Mrs. Haller said that ought to do, and went down to the lady, but by and by she comes up again with a card in her hand which had some words written on to it; and as soon as my dear young lady read them she just got as white as that curtain and got up and said, ‘I must go.’ ‘Then I cried out again that my word was passed to take care of her, and out of this she should not go; but she didn’t even answer, and the shimmering little hands of hers trem- bled so bad she could scarcely hold on to the door-handle. - Howsomever, she managed to go down stairs with the card in her hand, and wouldn’t take none of us for help. | ‘“I was so mad at Mrs, Haller for carrying up the second message, that I up and told her the doctor had specially for- bid Miss Isolina to have any worry, for her life, and that your ma would be crazy when she come to know; and Mrs, cComicbooks: co