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"Now, once for all, mother—" begins Nicholas, vehemently, but Geoffrey, with a gesture, silences him. "Yes, I could not sleep. Watching and waiting destroy all chance of slumber." "Of course you must come here," says Lady Rodney, who is afraid of the county and what it will say if it discovers she is at loggerheads with her son and his bride. But there is no welcome in her tone. And Geoffrey, greatly discouraged, yet determined to part friends with her for Mona's sake,—and trusting to the latter's sweetness to make all things straight in the future,—after a few more desultory remarks takes his departure, with the understanding on both sides that he and his wife are to come to the Towers on the Friday following to take up their quarters there until Leighton Hall is ready to receive them..
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"Poor soul! poor soul!" says Mona, brokenly; then she drops her hand, and the woman, turning again to the lifeless body, as though in the poor cold clay lies her only solace, lets her head fall forward upon it. "Thank you," says Geoffrey, a little dryly, accepting her words as they are said, not as he feels they are meant. Springing upon the bank that skirts the road on one side, she raises her hands to her head, and listens with all her might for the sound of wheels in the distance. "She is very seldom at home, but I think I like her better than any one I ever met.".
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