It was not new; the airy castle had
been some years built, and now, in an unwonted hurry, she wished to
introduce the tenant to the well-aired edifice, and put him in actual
possession. For a queer little attack in her head, which she called a
fainting fit, and to which nobody dared afterwards to make allusion, and
which she had bullied herself and everybody about her into forgetting,
had, nevertheless, frightened her confoundedly. And when her helpless
panic and hysterics were over, she silently resolved, if the thing were
done, then 'twere well 'twere done quickly.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
IN WHICH LILIAS HEARS A STAVE OF AN OLD SONG AND THERE IS A LEAVE-TAKING
BESIDE THE RIVER.
Devereux's move was very sudden, and the news did not reach the Elms
till his groom had gone on to Island-bridge with the horses, and he
himself, booted and spurred, knocked at the door. The doctor was not at
home; he had ridden into Dublin. Of course it was chiefly to see him he
had gone there.
'And Miss Walsingham?'
She was also out; no, not in the garden. John thought maybe at old Miss
Chattesworth's school; or, Sally said, maybe at Belmont; they did not
know.
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